This is another good day for POD shopkeepers. Cafepress have launched a few upgrades, one of which I mentioned before but quickly disappeared. That was the design tab of the sale report. It is even better than I had first thought. Not only does it tell you which designs are selling well, it shows their tags. You can see an… Read more →
On the same say Cafepress announce base price increases they also announce the winners from the Design Contest. I did think that the prize was unusually generous. Perhaps Cafepress have an amateur psychologist on their team advising on how to take the attention away from the base price increases. Oh, you tricked us all Cafepress. LOL. Anyway, the main purpose… Read more →
Well, Cafepress were kind enough to send me a few Infinistitch products to review. They send me three caps, three very pink caps, two of which had the same design. That’s about the worst thing I have to say about them. Click the images for closeups but remember that the closeups are bigger that the original size and not what… Read more →
I guess this competition is a combination of promoting the new Infinistitch products and a clever way to boost the number of designs for these products in the marketplace. Below are the general guidelines: 1. Create an American patriotism design in the spirit of July 4th on our Military Cap with InfiniStitch(tm) embroidery 2. Submit your Military Cap for this… Read more →
I received an email from somebody at CafePress today and they are willing to answer any questions readers have about Inifinistitch. Great news. So if you have any questions feel free to add a comment to this post or send me an email using the contact form and I will pass them on. (Please refrain from using profanities as they… Read more →
Cafepress Inifinistitch products cause a stir in the embroidery worlds.
In recent posts I mentioned that Cafepress had released new embroidery products and there has been a heated debate going on ever since. (See here and here) Is it embroidery? Is is not embroidery? I can understand the worry from people in the embroidery industry. Imagine someone came along and said they could do your job cheaper and better. You’d… Read more →
Well, today’s chat at Cafepress provided a lot more information about these new products and this new technology. This new embroidery technique is called Infinistitch and was developed by Cafepress and is therefore exclusive to Cafepress. While they admit it is not traditional embroidery it does have an advantage – infinite colors. No easy task for traditional embroidery it seems,… Read more →
Well, as predicted, EOD (Embroidery on Demand) has arrived at Cafepress. Today Cafepress had some downtime for “maintenance” but really it was to provide us with these new products. When I saw the little banner in my control panel I got a little rush of excitement. I quickly clicked on it and, I’m sorry to say, my excitement just as… Read more →
