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Originally Posted by clavus
Laser printed iron ons are crap.
Silk screen them youself or get them done in bulk from a real live printer.
Cafepress.com might be the answer if you can mark them up enough to make it worth your while.
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I know nothing about the pricing of screened shirts, but I have seen iron-ons that a fellow had made and they were indeed crap. The fellow did original line work, scanned and emailed it to someone who had the images transferred to iron-on material and snail-mailed back to him. He would hand-trim the iron-ons and apply them to cheap shirts and sell them from his back-pack at weekend events. The shirts would sell, and then the image would start to peel off within a day or 2 (even before washing). No repeat business, and lots of unhappy people all over the region.
Go with screened work, make your art 1 or 2 colours in order to lower the front-end cost, and create a happy customer base. Even without the Adobe Suite I'm sure you can find a cheap (even freeware) graphics program which allows you to import a scanned drawing and break it into a combination of graphics and images. This will allow you to create the files you would want to email to a printer. Resolution requirements in print files for a shirt are probably low enough to email rather easily.