When T2 was making bags for the London comps, they were screen-printed. Seemed to work quite well, although not as long-lasting as emb.

I think it was a bit of hassle to set up - they printed on to the cordura BEFORE it was sewed.

if you want it to look nice for years and cool and well worn for years after that then wait to get it embroidered. if you don't mind it not looking as good when you get it, turning to really rubbish shortly after then get it screenprinted.

Totally agree with Count B. Unless the company is giving you a substantial discount on the retail price.

If your company insists that you use a company logo-ed bag, then a way round it is to get poppers custom fitted to the cordura (before the liner is sewn in) and then get a vinyl bag, cut out the logo, fit the poppers = removable comp logo.

ah yeah you're the employee, does make it a bit different.

pedro probably will be cheaper and he is a working cycle courier not a bizniss man, he is safe don't worry a lot of us here know him, i would definitely buy the bag from him. he used to work in budapest is how he knows bagaboo.

bagaboo screenprinted the i bike mcr logo onto the ones they donated to the festival last year and they were amazing..all still intact i believe

iron eye here are some of the pics from bagaboo bags , http://flickr.com/photos/16373547@N07/

Fistly, i am well impressed that Network are paying for a fancy bag! How did you pull that off? A fucking bagaboo as well! *Wipes tears away with the flap of stinky piece of shit bag*

In the past i have looked at having t-shirts made up for various things and screen printing always seemed costly/takes time. I have a friend at Mission Print who is super sound and will definately do it for you, likely for a really good price, certainly cheaper than anyone else. He just helped Rosie out for an art project, and did a wicked job. BUT it's quite a lot of work for one bag, because you need to set up the screen, expose the emulsion and you'd need to do this twice for both colours in the logo. If you were making like a hundred (imagine a hundred network couriers!) then that would be a real easy way of printing them all up. In fact, if they want like branded everything then this could be good cos they could keep the screens and use them to print all sorts of branded stuff, like stickers, polos yada yada. But that may come to bite you in the ass if you have to work in network waterproofs, hat, shoes, rub on tattoos, sleep in network sheets, network curtains, walk on network carpets, have to look at network wallpaper, wipe your ass with network TP etc. Anyhow, for a one off it's a lot of work. For t-shirts I found the cheapest way was CAD-cut heat-pressed vinyl, which looks the same as screened for non-intricate stuff like logos, and this was super cheap. Apparently this is what a lot of workwear is printed with (like flouro jackets with the contractor company on). The logos are just cut out of coloured vinyl by some plotter cutter thing connected to a computer, and you can have as many different colours as you want. They wack it in the same kinda heat press for screening and voila, job done. Looks like this: http://www.pumptees.com/images/Blue's%20Auto,%20Hats,%20Shirt,%20Sign.jpg

Of course i never go round to actually doing it, just stencilled or whatever in the end BUT i am pretty certain that there is a workwear place on Constitution Hill that does this, but any of those little shops that offer one-off custom t-shirts often use this method. I think there might be one in the Indoor Markets, not the clothes one but the one that smells of rotting flesh/cod roe next door - i dunno maybe I dreamt that. Just look on yell.com, gotta be one near you. I dont reckon it will cost more than a tenner vs. £40+ for 2 colour silkscreen, maybe with the difference they could purchase the slave that works for rival firm Pirate Couriers.