Zazzle’s popularity in the online shopping and custom design marketplace is increasing daily. Similar to CafePress, Zazzle offers a number of features that set it apart.

In addition to custom t-shirt designs, you can create and modify a number of products including:

• bags
• hats
• aprons
• ties
• greeting cards
• post cards
• official U.S. Postage stamps
• Posters
• Canvas Prints
• Framed Prints
• Photo Prints
• Photo Enlargements
• Calendars
• Mousepads
• Mugs
• Travel Mugs
• Steins
• Photo Sculptures
• Magnets
• Keychains
• Bumper Stickers
• Round Stickers
• Button

As you can see, whatever it is you are looking for that you want to customize - you can do it at Zazzle.

One of the features that sets Zazzle apart from it’s competitors is the fact that you can modify any designs you find to whatever you want. So not only can you make custom products, but you can find something you like, and change it any way that you want. This really makes your options unlimited.

You also have the ability to sell your own designs on Zazzle similar to CafePress. So if you wanted to open up a t-shirt shop, this is your chance. You control the pricing on all of your own products, so make as much or as little as you want.

Zazzle has a good looking and searchable marketplace, so your products will gain exposure there, but as always - self-promotion is the best way to go. One of the neat things about the marketplace is that all of the apparel is displayed on real models. Now, they didn’t go and print up a t-shirt of yours and put it on a model just so you could display it. But, the software allows you to choose which models you want to display which products, so you and the customer will get a real idea of what the finished product is going to look like on a real person.

Zazzle is a great place to design custom t-shirts and other products. It’s also a great place to earn money on those designs if you are ambitious.

If you’re looking for a great selection of apparel and products to customize for your business or just for fun, CustomInk is a great place to find what you need. CustomInk is quickly becoming a leader in the online custom apparel design marketplace.

With a diverse product selection that includes everything from pens and koozies to bags and clothing, CustomInk offers a wide variety to its customers. They also have a large selection of brands to choose from including Hanes, Authentic, and Champion.

There are three options for printing on the apparel: digital, screen printing, and embroidery. The minimum orders are 6 pieces for screen printing and 12 for embroidery orders. These are pretty low for minimums when it comes to custom design work.

There is no minimum order for digital printing - so if you’d like to design a shirt for yourself or perhaps as a gift for somebody else, you can order a single unique t-shirt from CustomInk. This might be the perfect time to design that shirt for Grandma with the picture of her grandkids on the front.

CustomInk has a really nice catalog of design ideas that you can choose from. If you’re looking for a t-shirt to represent your sororities rush class or special event, they have some great ideas ready to be customized to your specifications. If you’re looking for a jersey for your softball team but aren’t much of an artist - you can choose a design from their design idea catalog and customize it with the names and numbers of your players as well as your team name.

If you want a little bit more control over your design you can upload your own artwork, or use their ‘design lab’ to create your own unique piece of clothing. In the design lab you can choose from a great selection of fonts to place text on your shirts, or you can even choose from over 10,000 images and pieces of art to use on your design. With such a large database of clip-art you are sure to find exactly what you want whether the shirts are for a company event or a family reunion.

One of the nice things that CustomInk does for its customers is to have a design professional review each order before it is printed. This insures that your order will come out exactly how you want it to and will be of the highest quality.

Unlike sites like CafePress, CustomInk doesn’t offer a way for people to upload designs and sell them in a marketplace, but this is a reason why CustomInk’s custom work quality is so high. There able to focus a lot of their work and energy to producing high quality custom t-shirt work for their customers. They aren’t distracted by other things, and it also allows them to offer things like screen printing and embroidery.

So if you’re looking for a place to create those custom t-shirts for your company event, or simply want to make a cute t-shirt for your kids, then CustomInk is a great place to do this.

What I really like about UberPrints is that it reminds me of the old school t-shirt shop. You know, the kind you find in the strip mall that is jam packed with t-shirts and also does custom work?

UberPrints is an online version of one of those shops. They have a large selection of t-shirt styles and colors for you to choose from. They carry brands like Hanes and Jerzees as well as a few others so the quality is pretty good.

You also have the ability to design custom t-shirts. You can upload your own artwork for the t-shirts, or you can select from their large selection of clip-art. Their design studio program is pretty easy to use, and allows you access to the clip art that is available. The printing area is pretty large so you have a lot of room to work with. What I like about the design studio is the text editor. It supplies you with some of the most popular t-shirt style fonts. You know, the “Property of” and others like that. It also gives you the ability to control the size, spacing, and curvature of the text.

Even if you don’t have any design experience, using the design studio on UberPrints is really simple.

UberPrints offers two types of printing - digital and screen printing. With the screen printing there is a minimum order of 12 shirts - I’m sure this is because it does take some work to set up a screen to print on the t-shirts. With the digital printing, you can order just 1 shirt if you like though you have to stick with the lighter colored shirts.

UberPrints doesn’t have a marketplace, so you can’t set up a online shirt shop like CafePress or Spreadshirt, but if you’re looking for simplicity and ease of use, then UberPrints might be the online t-shirt printing shop that you need to check out.

Spreadshirt is quickly becoming a popular custom t-shirt site. Unlike CafePress, Spreadshirt allows you a lot more freedom on where you can print on a t-shirt, as well as allowing printing on the sleeves of the shirts. However, one of the disadvantages of Spreadshirt is that there is no formal marketplace like CafePress’s marketplace, therefore if you have a shop set up on Spreadshirt, you’re largely responsible for bringing traffic to your shop.

On Spreadshirt, you can upload your own designs to print on shirts, or you can use one of their stock images that have been uploaded by other people. If you want to load designs onto the site for others to use, you can, though images are screened before being made available to make sure they’re “cool” enough. You can set your own commission on any designs you upload.

Spreadshirt also offers premium shop services. You can even upgrade to a version of a shop where you can have custom invoices and logos, as well as zero advertising from Spreadshirt in your shop, for $10 a month. But like I said before, the site does little promotion for these shops, so it’s up to the shop owners to promote their own shops.

One of the things that is really neat about designing custom work on Spreadshirt is that if you choose to use one of the stock images from the site, you can add text and edit it in the t-shirt interface making your shirt truly unique. Features like this really outpace CafePress’ options, but promotion will probably make this site a bit more difficult to use for the new t-shirt shop owners.

So for design options I believe that Spreadshirt is better than CafePress, but ease of use goes to CafePress over Spreadshirt.

Not too long ago there used to be only a few options for designing and printing your own custom t-shirts online. These days, there are a lot of different websites offering custom t-shirt printing and design services. So which sites are the best? Well, that depends on what you are looking for.

Over the next two weeks I’m going to be doing a series of T-Shirt Design Site Reviews. These are the ten sites that we’ll be reviewing with links to each site. These are ten of the best t-shirt design sites on the web. Each is a little bit different and if you’re looking for specific things we’ll show you what each site is capable of.

1. CafePress - review
2. SpreadShirt - review
3. UberPrints - review
4. Zazzle - review
5. ShirtCity - review
6. ShirtMagic - review
7. The Shirt Printer - review
8. DesignAShirt - review
9. CustomInk - review
10. ExpertShirt - review

If you’re looking for a way to design your own t-shirts, without a lot of hassle or difficulty, then CafePress is a good place to start.

I’ve been using CafePress for about a year and a half now, and think the service is great. Of course, I also get a check from them each month for the t-shirts that I have sold through my CafePress shop.

Not only can you design 1 item to buy, you can put your design in your own CafePress shop which don’t cost a thing to start. By doing this you are offering your design to whoever wants to buy it. People can find your designs by visiting your shop, or by searching in the CafePress marketplace.

A basic shop is free, but is limited in the number of items that it can carry. Another option is to upgrade your shop to a premium shop - which costs $6.95 a month. I have 2 premium shops on CafePress. I haven’t paid the fee (out of my own pocket) since the first month. Since then I have always made enough in shirt sales to cover it.

You have the ability to control the pricing in your shop as well which is really nice. Each item has a base price. For example, if a white shirt base cost is $13.99, you can mark that price up to whatever you want in your shop. So if you sell the shirt for $19.99, you make $6.00 for each sale of that shirt.

My shops aren’t anything real special, but they do bring in a nice chunk of change each month and I don’t have to do anything to the shops - though I occasionally upload new designs.

If you would rather just design a single product, it’s super easy to do that as well. You can produce as many or as few of a product as you would like. For example - we had a special event that some friends and I put together. I designed a shirt and made one for each person. I wasn’t required to buy a certain amount or anything like that. You get what you want.

So, if for the holidays you want to send Grandma a shirt with a picture of her grandkids, you can do that or if you’ve always wanted a shirt with a picture of your dog on it - check out CafePress.