Day ?? A new day, no more store on wordans, and new adventures of ebay

It is the end of the line for me at Wordans, recently I was told to stop adding images to Wordans, meh but I have thousands of designs what am I going to do with them! Oh well I finished those boxer ones, and those euro ones, I created probably 300 more designs since I last posted a blog. Yes I been busy. I moved through the eBay channels and made another account. Well not made but resurrected my first. But man having some issues with eBay and my main seller. He finally gets his feet planted and back into selling and 7 days pow I get suspended for the same crap, the exact same reason and for the same stuff I did last 35 days ago.

Could they not let me go on and fix this stuff? My seller performance was doing really well and sales were spiking. There was no need to close the clamp on me. But that is what I find, there are so many sellers that ebay just doesn’t give a fuck and any person at the company has so much power. Just the other day on that account I got listings removed because of keyword spamming, retarded as it was I was not allowed to list a Britney spears shirt of Britney spears because I was taking advantage of the name. But it was a picture of Britney spears. I sucked it up and called eBay they were like uhmm ops sorry so yeah they were allowed to be listed again because my logic was logical. Usually is. And I am not being egotistical.

Now I have a pet peeve, it seems people out there do not understand the concept of DPI,

Dots per inch (DPI) is a measure of spatial printing or video resolution, in particular the number of individual dots or pixels within the span of one linear inch (2.54 cm.)

Now understand this, most images I get from people are 72 dpi jpgs or gifs, my main response is trying to hold in the frustration and assembling in my mind which steps I can take to fix this. We used to outsource at work to another company and they would constantly send in 72 dpi images, mind you I did get the odd 200 and 300 which I smiled to. But on another note the people who ran the company would give me 96 dpi images, or under. I was really shocked because they are in the same business as me why would they send such shitty quality images. (The best part is customers would complain about the shirts, uhmm hey did you see your image. Did you really expect a 1”x1.5” image to come out as 200 dpi 10”x11” crystal clear)

DPI in digital image files

DPI refers to the physical size of an image when it is reproduced as a real physical entity, for example printed onto paper, or displayed on a monitor. A digitally stored image has no inherent physical dimensions, measured in inches or centimetres. Some digital file formats record a DPI value, which is to be used when printing the image. This number lets the printer know the intended size of the image, or in the case of scanned images, the size of the original scanned object. For example, a bitmap image may measure 1000×1000 pixels, a resolution of one megapixel. If it is labeled as 250 DPI, that is an instruction to the printer to print it at a size of 4×4 inches. Changing the DPI to 100 in an image editing program would tell the printer to print it at a size of 10×10 inches. However, changing the DPI value would not change the size of the image in pixels which would still be 1000×1000. An image may also be resampled to change the number of pixels and therefore the size or resolution of the image, but this is quite different from simply setting a new DPI for the file.

For vector images, there is no equivalent of resampling an image when it is resized, and there is no DPI in the file because it is resolution independent (prints equally well at all sizes). However there is still a target printing size. Some image formats, such as Photoshop format, can contain both bitmap and vector data in the same file. Adjusting the DPI in a Photoshop file will change the intended printing size of the bitmap portion of the data and also change the intended printing size of the vector data to match. This way the vector and bitmap data maintain a consistent size relationship when the target printing size is changed. Text stored as outline fonts in bitmap image formats is handled in the same way. Other formats, such as PDF, are primarily vector formats which can have bitmaps pasted into them. In these formats the target DPI of the bitmaps is adjusted to match when the target print size of the file is changed. This is the converse of how it works in a primarily bitmap format like Photoshop, but has exactly the same result of maintaining the relationship between the vector and bitmap portions of the data.

Up to a point, printers with higher DPI produce clearer and more detailed output. A printer does not necessarily have a single DPI measurement; it is dependent on print mode, which is usually influenced by driver settings. The range of DPI supported by a printer is most dependent on the print head technology it uses. A dot matrix printer, for example, applies ink via tiny rods striking an ink ribbon, and has a relatively low resolution, typically in the range of 60 to 90 DPI. An inkjet printer sprays ink through tiny nozzles, and is typically capable of 300-600 DPI.^[1] A laser printer applies toner through a controlled electrostatic charge, and may be in the range of 600 to 1800 DPI.

The DPI measurement of a printer often needs to be considerably higher than the pixels per inch (PPI) measurement of a video display in order to produce similar-quality output. This is due to the limited range of colours for each dot typically available on a printer. At each dot position, the simplest type of colour printer can print no dot, or a dot consisting of a fixed volume of ink in each of four colour channels (typically CMYK with cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink). Contrast this to a standard sRGB monitor where each pixel produces 256 intensities of light in each of three channels (RGB) to additively create 256³ = 16,777,216 colours. The number of unique colours for a printed CMYK dot from this simplest type of inkjet printer is only 8 since no coloured ink is visible when printed on black and black is used instead of CMY:

• white (no ink)
• cyan
• magenta
• yellow
• blue = cyan + magenta
• green = cyan + yellow
• red = magenta+yellow
• dark brown (not used) = cyan + magenta + yellow
• black

While some colour printers can produce variable drop volumes at each dot position, and may use additional ink colour channels, the number of colours is still typically less than on a monitor. Most printers must therefore produce additional colours through a halftone or dithering process. The exception to this rule is a Dye-sublimation printer that utilizes a printing method more akin to Pixels per inch.

The printing process could require a region from four to six dots (measured across each side) in order to faithfully reproduce the colour contained in a single pixel. An image that is 100 pixels wide may need to be 400 to 600 dots in width in the printed output; if a 100×100-pixel image is to be printed inside a one-inch square, the printer must be capable of 400 to 600 dots per inch in order to accurately reproduce the image.

So what am I going to do, I pulled out my designs on Wordans, and considering the staff there stopped speaking to me when I kept asking about the issues I was having with not being able to make products of all my designs. I know I probably won’t get the 14 dollars they owe me, but whatever. They made what 300 – 370 dollars off me and I get 14 dollars, really do not feel it is worth it considering I sold a shirt on ebay yesterday for 32.00 and I made 16.50 profit. Hmmm. I also really did not like not knowing what was selling, it was kind of annoying because I like to analyze market trends. NERD OMG. I won’t say what I do with my ebay accounts.

I plan to also make 10 feedback out of my other ebay account. I think I can handle 3 accounts and their fees. Also I have my own website which I will put several shirts on maybe a few thousand and get the store set up. It is a shame though I was asked to remove my presence from Wordans, despite the bugs, despite the horrible money I made, and despite the other problems I had it was a really easy website for me. I could just throw them up, I could leave them there, and I could slowly collect on them. Although it was completely unprofitable. It was also pointless to buy my own designs from them considering I can get them done for cheaper and well I have easy access to get them done.

Oh well time to plan my attack. I got so many designs though at the moment I need to list somewhere! FUCK EBAY btw, I hate that dashboard seller shit.