Thank you for the reply, but the sweat shirt I purchased looked liked a heat applied not ink process like a much older purchase I made. Was severely cracking and coming off the surface - the applied material was falling apart upon receipt. CS did refund. But the process was definitely not a good one and the persistence of complaints suggest some feedback is warranted to the factory or buyer. Something did change.
Your artists deserve a better printing process and I say this only to try to help. There is a level of cheap quality beyond which it deters a second purchase. One simply does not know when sales do not occur due to loss of confidence.
What’s going on with t-shirt print quality? I’ve been buying shirts here for a long time but ALL of the shirts I’ve gotten over the last 5 or so years have their prints wearing out already. I have 10+ year old shirts that have been worn and washed far more often that still look great. I see lots of shirts I want to buy, but if I’m only going to get a handful of wears before the designs visibly degrade, I can’t justify it.
I have so many that the print disappeared from after a few washes it’s really disappointing and I can’t keep up with doing customer service complaints. I hope it gets fixed because there are some really favorite tees that I have lost prints
Been buying from here since 2012 (have 70+ shirts by now) and still have my first shirt. Dont know how a print from within the couple yrs has faded to the point where I have a completely blank T shirt (no damage, just the print is purely gone) while my 1st shirt is still looking almost perfect..
Genuinely just sad, its not worth buying here anymore even though all of my favorite designs are here
To keep up with the volume, the printer must source from many different suppliers, so it is unknown which brand specifically you would have received. They do their best to match the style across all brands and suppliers.
Thank you for replying. But please assess whether the process is now heat fused appliqué. That is what is almost 100% found to be peeling. That which is “printed” as you suggested should not peel in flecks! So clearly a different process.
So many of your customers are saying it is no longer durable. So kindly take it to heart because it means repeat sales. Trying to help. You seem not to be getting what you and customers paid to receive.
Ut oh! Over half of my shirts are woot, the rest are from concerts. I haven’t noticed any peeling. But I also reserve the really special shirts (to me) for vacations or special locations.
I understand that is the expectation. The last sweatshirt I purchased did not appear to be printed. Upon receipt, bits were already peeling off similar to reports of others.
Prior purchases were printed and looked very different.
Thought I’d document the degradation of a shirt I bought in '21. The original two shirts lost all ink after 2-3 washes and I contacted customer support and received a single replacement (I would’ve expected two, but whatever). It was this replacement shirt that I decided to take pictures of after every wash, the fact that I only had the one made it easy. (Also, I posted in this thread at the time too!)
The first photo (Jan '22) shows the original shirt I bought in June of 2011 compared with the shirt bought in June of 2021 (so, around 10 years in service vs 6 months), followed by two close ups. By June of 2024 the design was barely visible, a mere 8 washes later (yeah, I wasn’t wearing it that often and it did sit in a corner for a few months once because I wanted to take a picture and kept forgetting and I’d be willing to bet I forgot once or twice as well). I’m as surprised as you are at this.
Very few of my shirts these days are ones from Woot, primarily for having gotten a hot-wash on accident around 2019 when I was living with some other folks and they shrank slightly, combined with the… lack of quality post-2016. Not that very many of my non-woot shirts are holding up all that well either, and at least three of which I can’t even get reprints of any more because those merchants are gone (and of those, one gained holes before it lost any ink!).
And so, I’m returning to Woot to see if things have improved.
Whats up with Woot Shirt print quality now? I bought the one on the left in 2010-it got packed away for a bit but still got years of wear- and the one on the right in 2024. The 2010 one got small holes- which is understandable given the years- so I ordered the 2024 one and within a few months it was fading like this. I have more recent shirts like the Banned Books one that is doing horrible - I know it’s a faux-faded print style, but it has print dandruff now. Too many of my recent ones are fading way too fast.
I still wear the 2010 Cerebrus because I like it so much despite the small holes, so it’s not some new detergent or washer or something.
Breaks my heart because I love the shirts so much, but I don’t think I can trust them to last anymore. I know inflation and all, but bring back the 2010 or even 2017 quality!
Four years on and this problem seems it hasn’t been adressed, so for the Woot 21st birthday celebration can we get a print facility tour video and/or a walkthrough of the printing process? Ive got tee-shirts from the eighties that have held up better, but in fairness they might contain just a little more asbestos. I’m just hoping these silly shirt blanks aren’t made using Uyghur slave labor; clearly they should be made using child labor so those small fingers can fit better in the machines!
(Been a hot minute since I posted, but I’ll dig up my woot shirts later today for comparison pictures.)
It used to have text under the floppy disk saying: *within 5mb file size limit
Ironically, that text is gone almost without a trace. Makes me laugh, but it’s been washed inside out in cold water every time, and it’s kinda sad for me.
