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Mafro wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:

Mafro wrote:Bought this because I can't be strawberry floated wet shaving my head anymore



Pricey at £70 but it's a proper bit of barbershop kit and barely leaves any mess to clean up.

I'm getting to the point of needing this sort of thing. Let me know if it's up to scratch after a few uses.

It's brilliant, actually just feels like you've just wet shaved your head it's that close. Your hair needs to be buzzed short to begin with though, preferably with unguarded clippers at least, or it'll be too long to cut. I could only wet shave my head once a week maximum otherwise I'd always get a rash at the back of my head/top of the neck but I've been using this every 2-3 days and it's been fine.

Never really occurred to me to use one of these to shave my whole head until my barber did it and recommended it.

Green Gecko wrote:CMYK - cyan magenta yellow K (black) inks, applied seperately

DTG - direct to garment via giant printer

Former is generally a screenprint/ink 4 colours total, depends

Former more labour intensive, cheaper in volume, appears more artistic

Latter better colour definition/details and gradients (e.g. photos), cheaper in low volumes but catching up with screenprint in terms of economy very fast. As or less durable, sometimes more.

tl;dr full colour images are worth more than that gooseberry fool "Agent Smith" tee which is worth in print terms about 10p. Because of this they will generally be produced in lower quantities to mitigate risk.

In consumer terms process colour / screenprint and DTG are basically the same. It's the single colour prints that aren't really worth much money at all.

Green Gecko wrote:CMYK - cyan magenta yellow K (black) inks, applied seperately

DTG - direct to garment via giant printer

Former is generally a screenprint/ink 4 colours total, depends

Former more labour intensive, cheaper in volume, appears more artistic

Latter better colour definition/details and gradients (e.g. photos), cheaper in low volumes but catching up with screenprint in terms of economy very fast. As or less durable, sometimes more.

tl;dr full colour images are worth more than that gooseberry fool "Agent Smith" tee which is worth in print terms about 10p. Because of this they will generally be produced in lower quantities to mitigate risk.

In consumer terms process colour / screenprint and DTG are basically the same. It's the single colour prints that aren't really worth much money at all.

Vermilion wrote:Got the next dinosaur 50p in the mail today, it's the second of the set of three to be released...

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Vermilion wrote:https://www.uniqlo.com/uk/en/content/IDmickey-blue2601.html

Loving these new Mickey designs, may well get a couple.

Might well order the blossom castle tee when it comes out on monday too.

Chocolate-Milk wrote:Might as well look fresh as hell as we begin to descend into it.

Mafro wrote:Got this from Qwertee

Saint of Killers wrote:

Mafro wrote:Got this from Qwertee

How long did it take between ordering and it being delivered? I ask because I hadn't ordered from them in AGES and so they sent over an offer and the tees arrived the same week! That's ridiculously fast for them as one of the tees was a time limited design which, back when I ordered regularly, would take a good few weeks to arrive. So they've either improved their order/print/post times, or they're just trying to sucker me in to becoming a regular again through excellent but unsustainable customer service.

<]:^D wrote:i ordered one around Christmas (Secret Santa voucher) and it came within a week

<]:^D wrote:i ordered one around Christmas (Secret Santa voucher) and it came within a week

Mafro wrote:Dispatched March 2nd and came yesterday.