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[dscoshpe]

Had this idea, maybe we can make something of it.

I recently opened an account at cafepress.com and thought it would be cool to put up some sort of "tailored specifically for the casio community" shirt. I figured it would be a simple design focused on featuring mostly interesting and exciting screenshots from actual programs that exist in the casio community. We could also put the URL of both the UCF and french forums on there somewhere. Anyways, with the programming competition going on plus the established library there are bound to be some nice screenshots to be used.

Now if your not familiar, cafepress only requires that you upload your design, they do all the selling and printing - BUT they charge a flat base price (for a white shirt it is like 14$ I think) and you can opt to charge more if you like (profit). The drawback is that you pay more for the product if you recieve a profit, and with a lot of potential foriegn buyers that could be bad as the shipping is also more expensive. To europe and other international places it is 7$ (american) to ship. Anyhow, I think the best possible solution would be to collect no profit, though if there was a profit it could be provided to those who spend for the community (thinking Simon, etc) or as a prize in the contest.

What do you guys think?

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[CrimsonCasio]

yeah, if we can make it work that would be a great idea. I'm going to check out cafepress.com so I can get a better idea of what we would need to do.

[CrimsonCasio]

I going to start a poll for who would buy a casio/UCF shirt, however all replies should be made in this toipc.

[Killer83Z]

Yeah, why not. Although I feel the most plain the better. E.g.:

Front:


Universal Casio Forum
_____________________
\
\ ?http://casiocalc.org
?\_______________________
? \
? ?\ ?CFX/AFX/Classpad...
? ? \_______________________


Back:


? ?______________________________
? /
?/ ?I'm not affiliated with
/ CASIO Electronics Co., Ltd
/_____________________________

[CrimsonCasio]

i think the "I'm not affiliated with casio co ldt." should be small and under a screenshot of a game. above the screenshot should be the name of the author of the game.

[Endi]

I would think about buing such shirt if i knew how it looks.
Prepare, please, a graphical project(s) of it.

[betoe]

It will be so good!, but the principal problem it will the distance to send the shirt, we are from a lot of places, like brazil and australia, it will be difficult (and expensive) send the shirt to these places.

[dscoshpe]

I will whip a general concept up to go from as far as a design goes. And Im with Killer, I prefer using an abstract approach to the design as to not geek it up too much but enough that other casio people would know and any others would have to ask.

Again, shipping is priced fairly for international orders (1/2$ more than to US). Reference: CafePress Shipping

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[huhn_m]

The idea itsself is great!
I would buy one if I knew what it looks like. But I prefere the style Killer suggested. (especially the I'm not .. part on the back! It's great.)
But I don't think I'll run with a shirt with a name of a game creator through the town. I would be willing to pay the 21$ for a shirt (I think!).

BUT! Looking at our recent crisis we must think about the adresse of the forum! Either simon must promise to sb. that he will give his
adresse away as sonn as he don't wants to host the UCN anymore or make a forwarding. It would be bad if I bought a t-shirt and
it became invallid after 2 or 3 months.

Have a lot of fun! huhn

[CrimsonCasio]

obsoleat t-shirt...hehe

[Bob Vila]

i like the idea, but i would not like to pay for it

[Killer83Z]

One more thing: I really dislike screenshots of games.

1) They look lame - it's just a calculator screen
2) I think they use a different way to plot those multi-colored pictures on t-shirts which sucks, it's like a layer of rubber or something.

[CrimsonCasio]

what about the ucf logo though?

[rstweb]

why not? but i can't buy such a shirt at the moment, because i don't have money for it...

[Killer83Z]

What is the "UCF logo"?

[CrimsonCasio]

[Brazzucko]

Well there is a very cheap way do it, and we can do it at home?.

Anyone knows that there is very much variety of print papers?..

One of then is great for that, we print what we wants over this special paper, then, we just have to put this paper over one shirt ( whit the printed surface over the shirt of course ), and put something hot over the paper ( there is one thing to do that but I don?t know how to say it in English ), and that?s all you now have one cool UCF T-shirt?.

Here is one suggestion, let?s make a competition to choose one image ( BMP, JPG, ETC ) do it, if of course you guys like this idea to make the UCF shirt at home?

[ross8653]

i think we should do a contest anyone wanting to submit designs (either full photoshop or just concept) can do so within a period of time then everyone votes on the design they like best (even if they arnt gonna buy one) and that is the design

what'da think?

[CrimsonCasio]

a definite possibility, but I dont want it to be at the same time as the current contest.

[Killer83Z]

Oh crimson, simon did a nice job with that top logo, but it's the N-th one in a long time...for t-shirt print, we'd need a larger picture...I'm with ross' idea.

[CrimsonCasio]

fine with me, but I'd like to keep the blue color scheme.