CustomInk.Com is EXCEEDINGLY cool!

Many of you know that CRChair and I help to coach our church's Bible Quiz Team. For the last few years, we have relied on the poster now known as "BowHunter" to help us create our team uniforms. He used to work for a silk-screening company and was a consummate artist of the t-shirt and sweatshirt arts. But now he has moved onto bigger and better things, and thus we have had to fend for ourselves.

This year, we decided to try one of the new online services which allows you to design your own shirts online. After reviewing a few of them, I decided to try CustomInk.Com because their flash-based t-shirt design tool was the best (though it likes FireFox a lot better than Safari on the Mac). I was able to quickly use their internal tools to put together a unique design that met our needs, and had more than a little flair. It also had the advantage of providing better base shirts than in times past. Our final design is the one below.



But making the design and hitting "Buy" was not the end of the process. CustomInk.Com was great about communication as well. They called me the next day to confirm a few details (yes, I wanted the green in the logo to match the sleeves), but followed everything up with e-mails so I did not have to wait until I got home at night to check the answering machine. They also notified me when the supplier was out of my preferred shirt in all sizes, and negotiated with them to get what I needed. Finally, while they guarantee their shirts within 2 weeks, they actually got it to me within 10 days... in time for our next Quiz Meet! And the price was competitive with what BowHunter had gotten us previously from a local company.

We have yet to wash the shirts or see how they stand up over time, but so far I am VERY happy with CustomInk.Com and would recommend them to friends. And the ease of use may actually drive me to order custom shirts more often for family events, church events, etc. After all, now making t-shirts is as easy as ordering a couple of books from Amazon.Com!