Missed Merchendising opertunities
By
Decorum,
Posted on: 2010-07-14 06:25 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
There's a lot of t-shirt shops that will put whatever image you can give them on a computer disc on a shirt. They'd be hard pressed to back such an endeavor as cheaply as a local shop can.
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while that may be truew the tshirt shop's quality is also alot lowwer then most t-shirt manufactures and that aside doing it the way you describe would require screen shots where as what I am talking about is a system i have seen for posters when I played WoW which is you could type in the UN to your account select a sever and character then it would load them as theyt where currently in game you could then choose poses add there pets if they had em and then back ground etc and make a poster (I did this as part of a christmas gift for my wife... we played it together) and it was pretty sweet....|
Originally Posted by Decorum
There's a lot of t-shirt shops that will put whatever image you can give them on a computer disc on a shirt. They'd be hard pressed to back such an endeavor as cheaply as a local shop can.
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That aside while I am more then capable of taking screen shots and then editing the pics using photoshop not every one is... infact a good number of people aren't so I still think they are missing an opertunity here for not only shirts but posters "Collectors cards" etc.
WoW has almost unlimited capital to do such things. CoX not so much. It's not a bad idea, I just have a hard time seeing how it would be economically feasible.
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Originally Posted by Xenophage
while that may be truew the tshirt shop's quality is also alot lowwer then most t-shirt manufactures
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I've been told that a major cause in quality loss for T-shirt prints is the supplied graphic.. For one, raster image files are a disaster for quality (files that hold data in pixels, such as jpeg, bmp, etc). Which also make up the bulk of anything your computer puts out..
To get truly good quality you want vector graphics, which holds it's data in an mathematical algorithm. (meaning no quality loss if you blow it up/shrink it down) Which are much harder to come by, and 'Print Screen' doesn't output them either.
My point being; that the low quality is probably as much of the consumer's fault (for unknowingly supplying raster files) as it is the print shop's.
Granted, this was some years ago, and times might have changed.
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I am not talking about the picture quality persay (though that can be an issue), Listen I have a degree in graphic design so I know all about pixle quality etc etc... what I am taking about it the quality of the equipment, for instance some tshirt shops (infact alot of them I have been too) use a machine that "irons" the image on, this means the image is translusent and so you can't put a color print on dark color t-shirt cause the image won't show up. They just lact the ability to put a solid image on tshirt so if I wanted a color image of my hero on a shirt my only choices are white or light grey where as NCsoft could have there company make them to spec... and again I my self can make a design just fine and bring it in to a shirt shop and end up with a pretty cool t-shirt (even if it is white) but most people would get a dorky shirt that is just a screen shot on a shirt.
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Originally Posted by Primantiss
I've been told that a major cause in quality loss for T-shirt prints is the supplied graphic.. For one, raster image files are a disaster for quality (files that hold data in pixels, such as jpeg, bmp, etc). Which also make up the bulk of anything your computer puts out..
To get truly good quality you want vector graphics, which holds it's data in an mathematical algorithm. (meaning no quality loss if you blow it up/shrink it down) Which are much harder to come by, and 'Print Screen' doesn't output them either. My point being; that the low quality is probably as much of the consumer's fault (for unknowingly supplying raster files) as it is the print shop's. Granted, this was some years ago, and times might have changed. |
The EU store? Or were you able to find an NA store?
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I recently got the CoV and CoH shirts from the NCsoft store and was thinking.... it would be cool to have some of my heroes on a tshirt... and that this could be an awsome opertunity for them I'd buy like 5 or 6 for different heroes.... could also do posters like wow did where you can put your character on it etc.