Comments on: Help me procure a Ruff Ruffman shirt!

Question: Help me procure a Ruff Ruffman shirt!

unixrat — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:40:57 -0800

My daughter is a huge Ruff Ruffman fan. She really wants a t-shirt with Ruff on it, but such a thing does not exist - well, at least there's no 'official' Ruff shirt from PBS or WGBH. I have been given a Dad Mission: procure a shirt by any means necessary. Can anyone find a Ruff graphic large enough to print on a shirt? (Format doesn't matter.) Have I missed a secret stash of RuffWear for sale somewhere? Does anyone know anyone who knows Ruff? Help me, Ask, my squeaky toy has lost it's squeak!

By: Vindaloo

Vindaloo — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:48:05 -0800

Best image I could find :
http://www.ket.org/pressroom/2006/21/FCTH__000000fetch_ruff_1048.jpg

It should be big enough to print onto a t-shirt without any loss of quality. Be sure to find a good print shop though.

By: willie11

willie11 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:15:46 -0800

Here is what you're looking for, I think. Click on whatever picture you fancy and select "full-size" above the picture. Save the pic and then you're on your merry way. Good luck!

By: crinklebat

crinklebat — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:12:27 -0800

I feel for you. I was an obsessive Elmo fan as a toddler back in the late '80s and my mom recounts stories of calling toy store after toy store trying to find something, anything with Elmo on it. No dice, since at the time Elmo was a bit player on Sesame Street.

If your daughter is anything like me, she's about ten years ahead of her time and Ruff Ruffman will become hugely popular when she's just old enough to not care.

By: d4nj450n

d4nj450n — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:21:06 -0800

You know, you can get iron on transfer paper for ink-jet printers like this . Make your own!

By: robinpME

robinpME — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:12:46 -0800

That iron on transfer paper doesn't look great to start with, and it doesn't hold up very well in the wash. I'd try to find a real printer, or maybe even one of those mall kiosks?

By: ShawnString

ShawnString — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:19:24 -0800

I beg to differ on the ink jet iron ons. I have made tees for my 4 1/2 year old daughter, my 2 year old son and myself since she was very little.
Use the Avery ones, wash them inside out and they last surprisingly well.
The only thing you have to watch out for is making sure that if you are going to use it on a colored tee that the colors in the iron on "work" for the color of the tee shirt. You will be golden if you use light grey or white though.

By: phirleh

phirleh — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:42:18 -0800

You should take some of the stills from willie11's link and run them through VectorMagic, its free and online and you can scale them as large as you want without artifacting. Animation stills work very well with this process.

By: nanojath

nanojath — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:52:04 -0800

Have you noted this page? There are various prizes - downloads of PDFs, wallpapers and MP3s - that you can unlock by earning points playing online games. I notice there are several "t-shirt" PDFs - I wonder if these are meant to be used creating iron-on transfers?

By: unixrat

unixrat — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:00:32 -0800

I think that nanojath is probably right - those t-shirt PDFs are probably meant to be iron-ons. Since this is supposed to be a surprise, it looks like I'm going to have to play a bazillion kid word scrambles and things like that. :) Well, PBSKids will probably wonder why someone is grinding their games at 11:00 tonight when all kids are supposed to be in bed. :)

Many thanks to all!

By: nanojath

nanojath — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:16:29 -0800

Well, PBSKids will probably wonder why someone is grinding their games at 11:00 tonight

More likely they'll be tracking statistics on the other 500 parents doing the same thing. I can't decide whether this set-up is a good or bad thing. Teach you children to grind for epic loot early!

It's kind of cruel that there are 6 different t-shirts to make a blind selection from.

By: unixrat

unixrat — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:48:38 -0800

After playing a ton of 'guess the sound effect', I can tell you that the t-shirt PDFs from those games are exactly that - designed for t-shirt transfers! All right!

It'll probably take two more hours of drudgery to get the rest, but this is a definite solution.

By: mmoncur

mmoncur — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:36:48 -0800

If you don't want to bother with Iron-on transfers, you can create a shirt at Zazzle and upload your graphic. Should cost about $15.