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TeeGopher's Mom
01-17-2009, 04:38 PM
Well, I guess I should prolly introduce myself. :)

My name is Chani.

I've been a tee shirt and jeans girl ever since 8th grade. Wow...almost 22 years ago!

I've only had one job that required a uniform or dressing up in any way...a movie theatre.

I became a tee shirt printer in July of 2007 when we bought our first vinyl cutter and a heat press to replace the one my Fiance brought up form Alabama when he moved here to Minnesota.

As we were discussing starting our business, I found The T-Shirt Forums. I can't tell you how much I've learned participating in that forum!

Now a friend of mine has created a new forum that focuses on tee shirt making videos, and there is a lot to learn on that forum, too. :)

We're not making big money right now with our tee shirt business, but at least we're surviving based solely on that income. We really only went full-time with this in June of last year, but we're really on our way. :)

One of my passions since about 2000 is the web (building my own html websites). In about 2003 I was introduced to maintaining phpBB forums, and about a year after that, vBulletin. :)

I have high hopes that this will become a large and friendly community that focuses on assisting people in finding the tee shirts, tee shirt vendors, and custom tee shirt printers. :)

Welcome, and enjoy! :)

TeeGopher's Mom
07-09-2009, 04:56 AM
So...in such a short time we've come so far!

Our company is cema graphics (yes, lower-case), but we will making a minor change in our name when we incorporate.

At the moment we use cad-cut media to decorate apparel (including vinyl, flock, glitter, etc) and we also use professional digital transfers on light clothes (I haven't found a quality transfer for darks yet that will work with our plotter and I refuse to just have boxes on a tee shirt.).

Our plan is to move into DTG (direct-to-garment printing (both light and dark garments)), embroidery, and rhinestones soon.

Hahahahahaaaa! We want to rule the world!!! :p

Right now we only sell on the internet. We actually plan to stay that way at least until we purchase our embroidery machine, and then we will seek out more local clients.

If anyone has any questions on garments with apparel vinyl, please feel free to contact us. We decorate tees, sports uniforms, sweatshirts, and just about anything else. :)

Our company site is http://www.cemagraphics.com

Hope to hear from you for your custom-decorated apparel needs!