Ink fruit, India’s first democratic brand, is a platform for designers to showcase their talents and get awarded and recognized for their work. For more please refer to http://www.inkfruit.com/about_us.php

The Inkfruit office is located at the following address:

Tenement No.100/795

Ground Floor,Motilal Nagar,

Road No.-1,Goregaon (W.)

Mumbai - 400104

If you would like to apply for any job post to Inkfruit, please do drop a mail to hobbes(at)inkfruit(dot)com

Fingerprints fashions pvt ltd is the name of the organization that carries the brand Inkfruit.

To register on inkfruit click on the ‘join’ button on the header bar and fill in the required details and you will be a part of the inkfruit community. You can also just click on this link and you will be guided to our registration page
http://www.inkfruit.com/register.php

Click on the ‘forgot your password’ on the home page or click on the following link:
http://www.inkfruit.com/forget_password.php
Type in your email address and your log in details will be mailed to you.

If you are still unable to log in after using your new password please send a mail to hobbes(at)inkfruit(dot)com and the query will be looked into on an urgent basis.

Of course you do! After you login, just click on your username in the right-top of the screen and you will be taken to your profile page where you can view details viz., deisgns submitted by you, designs that won, points accumulated etc, scraps by other users and also modify details. This is your page baby! Do what you want!

Sorry, but you can't change your username. You will need to sign up for a new one.

After logging in, click on your username on the right-top corner of the screen to go to your profile page which includes account details viz., number of points accumulated.

Reward points are a fun way of building a cache on the community and letting other users know of your participation.

You win Reward points by:

•  Submitting designs (You win loads more if your design wins!)

•  Sending in a photo of you wearing an Ink Fruit tee

You can redeem Reward points for a variety of goodies offered on inkfruit.com from time to time. And of course, you can redeem them for Ink Fruit tees too!

Fabric: We use the highest quality of 100% super-combed cotton with bio-wash. The fabric goes through a variety of treatments and we guarantee colour fastness and shrinkage within acceptable international norms.

Printing: We use high quality screen printing and/or transfer printing depending on the design. All printing techniques used are environmental friendly. Yeah, we love the planet!

Size Chart:To check out our sizing details, please visit http://www.inkfruit.com/sizechart.php

Wear, wear and then wear some more. And when you feel you have worn it enough for one wash, follow these instructions to make sure your Ink Fruit tee stays with you long enough for you to form a personal attachment with it!

Machine wash cold. Wash dark colors separately. If necessary, use a non-chlorine bleach. Tumble dry low. Do not iron print and any other embellishment. Advise you not to dry clean. While the tees are guaranteed against shrinkage, there might be a small amount of it on the first wash.

We offer S,M,L,XL and XXL in each boy and girl tees. While we have had a one-off mention of increasing the size range from others, the demand we feel doesn't make it worth it. If you guys feel the need, start badgering us and we will be more than happy to expand the range.

We produce a small quantity of the winning designs for you guys to get your hands on and then get onto the next set of winning designs. This keeps the tees sort of ‘limited edition' and at the same time, keeps the contest alive ensuring we get to see more of the ‘funkiness' you guys can create!

If you really badly want to get your hands on a tee that is outta stock, drop a mail to Hobbes at hobbes@inkfruit.com for that design. Once we have enough of these requests, we might do a reprint for you guys.

No policy! If you don't like what you get, you can send it back to us. As per your wish, we will replace it with any other design you might want or refund your payment. We really want you to love what you get and not be "stuck" with it.

Just, please make sure that the peice is returned in the condition you received it in. You will appreciate that if you wash it or use it a couple of times and then return it to us, we will not be able to refund you.

If you have any other questions about returns please feel free to email Hobbes at hobbes@inkfruit.com mentioning your order details.

Well, they are the currency here. On inkfruit.com you can buy T-shirts using Reward points.

Currently you earn 50 Reward points when you join Inkfruit. You also earn 20 Reward points for uploading a photograph of you wearing an Ink Fruit T-shirt you have purchased. Multiple uploads of photos related to the same T-shirt do not get credit. You can accumulate reward point by coming up with some ideas that would make awesome message t-shirts and uploading them in the ‘Idea Bank’ section. Apart from this, you get Reward points from time to time for winning a contest – this is as per the announcement for that contest regards the reward points that a winner would get.

You can use up your Reward points by shopping at inkfruit.com. At the shopping interface, you can use your reward points as discounts on your purchases. Suppose, you are making a purchase worth Rs.350 and you have 100 reward points, you can redeem these points and you would have to pay only Rs. 250. You can use your reward points to avail of discounts up to 50% of the product cost. Suppose you have 200 reward points you can use 175points and get a t-shirt for only Rs.175.

1. Browse through the tees currently available in the ‘Shop' section. You could also search for specific tees by size, colour or any tag associated with that tee.

2. Once you find the tee you want, click on the icon for the size and sex of the tee. This will add that tee in that size and sex to your shopping basket. This will be indicated by a message that will flash on your screen.

3. You can add multiple tees by just repeating the above procedure.

4. Once you are done adding tees to your shopping cart, click on the ‘Shopping Cart' on the right top corner to review the tees you have selected.

5. You then proceed to Shipping where you will have to enter the shipping details and confirm the order.

6. In the last step, you proceed to Billing where you will have to select the mode of payment. If you pay online, you will be taken to a secure bank interface where you can make the payment in a completely safe way. If you pay by COD (cash on delivery), the order will be sent to you and you will have to pay on receiving the T-shirts!

You will also receive an e-mail from us once your order is shipped. (Yea, we send a lot of e-mails.)

To make sure you have no hassles in getting your hands on an awesome Ink Fruit tee, we have provided you with a variety of methods of payment as below:
1. Credit Cards (Mastercard, American Express and Visa)

2. Online Transfer (you can transfer funds from your bank account to our account online)

3. Demand Draft or Cheque (you can send us a Demand Draft and we will dispatch the tee when the draft is realized)

4. Cash-on-Delivery (you can order the tee and pay for it when it reaches you)

We do not accept Switch, Electron, Maestro or other international debit cards.

Absolutely! Any personal information given to us (www.inkfruit.com) will be protected with paranoia! Your information will never be disclosed to any third parties. inkfruit.com's server secures your personal information with up-to-date firewall and encryption techniques during the ordering process.

Ink Fruit does not store your credit card or online bank account information at any time.

When you browse through secure areas of www.inkfruit.com (payment gateway, etc), a small lock icon will appear in the lower right-corner of your web browser. When this icon is present, and in the locked position, you know that information on that page will be secured. Added online security to protect your personal information from unauthorized use is provided by using advanced SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption managed by specialists in the field.

Using a discount coupon when purchasing t-shirts with Inkfruit is very simple. All you have to do is click the ‘buy’ button on whichever t-shirt you would like to purchase and you will be directed to the order summary page. Please find the field that says ‘Redeem Discount Coupon’. Enter your discount code (on all discount coupons) in the box under this section and proceed to payment. The discount will automatically be deducted from the total cost of the purchase.

If you want to change your order or cancel your order, you should yell at Hobbes hobbes(at)inkfruit(dot)com. If you yell in time (before shipping happens), we will make the modifications or cancel your order. But if the order has already been shipped there’s not much we can do.
Of course, if you don't like what you get, you could ask us to replace it. :)

To make multiple purchases click on the ‘buy’ button of any product you would like to purchase. This product will be added to your shopping cart. After this, you can go back to the shopping page and in the same manner click the ‘buy’ button on any other t-shirt and it too will be added to your shopping bag. Finally once added as many products as you like to your shopping bag. Click on the shopping bag and follow the steps to check out.

Yes, if you purchase 1-2 t-shirts you will have to pays Rs.30 as shipping charges, 3-4 t-shirts you would have to pay Rs60 as shipping charges and anything more than 5 t-shirts you will have to pay Rs90 as shipping charges.

No, sorry we do not sell our products out of our corporate office.

We do offer this facility to a majority of cities in India. If we don’t offer this service in your locality you will be prompted about the same after you type in your address while making a purchase.

Yes, you can visit the ‘Order History’ page in your profile. This will show you whether your order is pending or is dispatched. In case if the status of the order says dispatched and you have still not received it, please do call our customer care number.

To make a send a t-shirt as a gift, just start to purchase a t-shirt as you normally would. On your shopping bag page you will find a field that will state billing address and another as shipping address. Just chick the ‘send as a gift’ option, fill in the address of the person you would like to send it to and if you want to you can also send a note with the t-shirt.

You can make your Inkfruit purchases either in INR (Rupees) or in USD

Firstly, confirm with your bank that the amount has been deducted, if it has just drop a mail to hobbes(at)inkfruit(dot)com or call us on +91 22 65292584 and we will ensure that you get every penny back!

Sorry, you can’t purchase designs that are still on voting. Only if the design becomes a winner would you be able to purchase the t-shirt. As this is a democratic site, you can vote for the design and help it to win the contest and be printed on a t-shirt.

Sorry, only designs that have won our contests are printed. And so you’ll have to wait for the design to be announced as a winner.

We do have a very rigorous quality control department but a sometimes a few hitches do go unnoticed. It’s not an issue at all, just send the same t-shirt back (labels intact) and we will send you the replacement.

If you want to cancel your order send a mail to Hobbes immediately. If your order hasn’t been dispatched we can cancel the order completely. But if it has been dispatched then, sorry but we can’t stop the shipment.

Within India anywhere we have a standard shipping charge of Rs.30. For shipping charges anywhere outside India please do refer to this link http://www.inkfruit.com/shippingfaqs.php

A purchase is considered to be a bulk purchase if it is more than 10 t-shirts. You will get a 20% discount on the purchase. You just need to drop us an email at sales(at)inkfruit(dot)com with the names of the t-shirts you want, the sizes you need and we will call you with details of how you can buy them.

For bulk orders, we will look for the most efficient mode of transport and charge our customers only for the minimum fare applicable from our courier partners. In case of an urgent shipment, where our customer requires immediate 'by air' dispatch, we would quote the rate depending on the location where delivery has to be made. In either case, depending on the location of the customer and the urgency of the shipment, we would work out the best shipment rates available and charge our customers only those.

Orders within India are delivered within 7 to 8 working days, and international orders are delivered in 10 to 15 working days. So you don’t have to wait too long for your t-shirt.

Yes, just drop a mail to hobbes(at)inkfruit(dot)com or call us at +91 22 65292584 and we take your order on an urgent basis and dispatch it on the same day.

You will have to wait till the next lot of that t-shirt is printed :)

Sorry, that can’t be done. We you will have to wait a couple of days till we can deliver the t-shirt.

If you are unhappy with the t-shirt that you have received for any reason you can send it back to our office address. Send us a mail to hobbes(at)inkfruit(dot)com.

If you don't like what you get, you can send it back to us. As per your wish, we will replace it with any other design you might want or refund your payment. We really want you to love what you get and not be "stuck" with it.
Please make sure that the piece is returned in the condition you received it in. We will appreciate that you don’t send it to us if you wash it or use it a couple of times. As we will not be able to refund you. If you have any other questions about returns please feel free to email Hobbes at hobbes(at)inkfruit(dot)com mentioning your order details.

Just send a mail to hobbes(at)nkfruit(dot)com with an attached picture of the broken mug. And we will send you a replacement.

If the goods are returned because of any product damage, Inkfruit will bear the cost of return shipment and also replace the product. If the goods are returned because of personal choice changes - e.g. if you order a blue one but then want a black one instead or you order a small but then want a medium instead - in such cases Inkfruit would still exchange the piece, But the return shipment cost would be borne by the customer.

No, sorry, you will have to courier the t-shirt back to our corporate office and we will send you the replacement

We do have a very rigorous quality control department but a sometimes a few hitches do go unnoticed. It’s not an issue at all, just send the same t-shirt back (labels intact) and we will send you the replacement.

For any type of retail queries please contact via email to sales(at)inkfruit(dot)com

Inkfruit currently makes its products available across over 200 retail stores all over India. It is difficult to list all of these here - but you could drop us an email at hobbes(at)inkfruit(dot)com with details of where you are located. We will get back with details of the store closest to you.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to submit a tee design on the Ink Fruit community. Just register, sign in and click on the ‘Submit Design' link. This will take you to a design submission form. This page contains:

1. Design Details: Here, you will have to plug in design details viz., name, write-up on the design, inspiration or anything else you want your fans to know. ;)


2. Dos & Donts: Details including which formats to submit the design in, sizes of thumbnails of the design, file sizes, etc are posted here.


3. Submission Template: You can download our photoshop file submission template. This template will have all the fabric colors that are available to you and a Tshirt outline for you to place your design in it and submit it. Please use it to make sure that your design is NEVER declined!
Once you submit a design, it is put up for voting immediately. However, we review the designs submitted on a daily basis and any submission that does not follow the points mentioned under ‘Dos & Donts' will be taken out of the voting process and all the votes accumulated by that design will be diluted. You will also receive an e-mail from us mentioning the possible reasons for decline.

An accepted design is open for voting for a period of 20 days post which the scores are calculated in case of the perrenial contest. In the case of theme based temporary contests, all designs are up for voting till the expiry of that particular contest. If your design is amongst the winners, you will be intimated immediately and the design will be printed and made ready for sale.

For more information on design submissions, please go through our ‘ Terms and Conditions ' on the submit design page.

Loads of prizes!! First, you win a cash reward of INR 5000 or much more depending on the contest which you win! Then you get a free t-shirt with your design on it. All prints of your design carry your name on the tag. You also win a Mug with your design and name on it as well as a certificate. And if your design wins in a competition organized with a partner, you win all the goodies from our partner. And on top of all this, you become a celebrity on our site! Phew! You must be feeling giddy! ;)

While we feel the prize on offer right now is pretty sweet, we have every intention of making the prizes bigger and more awesome as the Ink Fruit community grows. So get al your friends participating quick!

Once you have registered and logged in, you can score submissions by navigating to the ‘Score Designs' section, clicking on a design submission currently open for voting and scoring on a scale of 1-5 (5 being the highest ranking).

You do! That's the beauty of it. Every couple of weeks, we look at the votes garnered by designs submitted, the comments on the design scrapbooks, and the fit with the essence of Ink Fruit and pick the top 3-4 designs and announce them winners. We will also reveal the scores for these winning designs and the number of people who voted for that design.

Easy! Just click yourself (or your friend) in an Ink Fruit tee and send it to us! Your picture, if accepted, will be used to display the tee in the ‘Shop' section. We periodically review the photographs sent in and pick some of you guys to win goodies!
http://www.inkfruit.com/submit_photo.php

Inkfruit shortlists the winning designs based on number of votes, average scores, comments and number of “I will buy this tee” clicks for that design on the website.
We also give different weightage to votes depending on the seniority of a member. A Hall of Fame members vote would hold more weightage than that of a regular member. In the same way, a regular members vote would hold more weightage than a nonmember.

However, all above stated channels are used for feedback only. Though we rarely make an exception to community feedback, the ultimate decision of declaring the winner rests with us.

After your design is accepted on Inkfruit, it will be on the site for the next 90days. The first 15days the design will be put to vote and comment by Inkfruit’s community. The design may be announced as a winner any time in the remaining 75days the design will be on the site.

Based on total score received and number of people who have voted the design, average score is calculated and displayed once the voting is over.

Yet, this average score is a guideline to judge how a design has fared. Before announcing the winners the top contenders are selected and the votes each design has received is segregated by giving different weight ages depending on the seniority of the voter on the site. So a ‘Hall of Fame’ members vote would hold greater weightage than that of a regular members vote.

This ensures that the winners on Inkfruit are individuals with the best designs and not the biggest social network.

Yes, if after the 90-day period is over, you would like to remove your design from the site or would like to upload it anywhere else, you may do so. All you need to do is drop us a mail at kais(at)inkfruit(dot)com and you design will be deleted.

No, when you have submitted your design to Inkfruit, our terms clearly state that once uploaded on Inkfruit, the design will remain on the site for 90 days. Within this time, if the design is declared a winner then Inkfruit acquires the rights to the design.

Just click on the ‘vote’ section on Inkfruit.com and then on ‘new designs’. You will see all the designs that are currently on voting. If you like any one, just click on the design and you can vote on it on a scale of 1-5 (5 being the best)

Inkfruit has two kinds of competitions:
Firstly the ‘Always On’ Contest and the ‘Talking Tees’ Contest, which are competitions that runs through the year. Designers across the world submit awesome graphics on any and every theme possible for the ‘Always On’ contest.

The talking Tees contest on the other hand allows entries which are rich and exciting but have a textual message central to the design. The entries are up for vote for a period of 15 days and at the end of this period, based on voting scores as well as comments, they might be declared as winners. Three winners are announced for the Inkfruit Always On Contest every 15days. Prizes worth Rs20,004 are given away every month, with each of the 6 winning designs getting prizes worth Rs3334!

Each winner gets :
- 5000 rupees cash, moolah, et all!
- Entry into the Inkfruit Hall of Fame & a Certificate for the same!
- 1 Free T-shirt, with your design on it of course!
- 1 Coffee Mug, with your design as well!

Winners are announced for the Talking Tees Contest whenever a great message t-shirt comes up. This could be 3 winners a month or just 1. Prizes worth Rs9336 are reserved for every month, with each winning design getting prizes worth Rs2334!

Each winner gets :
- 1500 rupees cash, moolah, et all!
- Entry into the Inkfruit Hall of Fame & a Certificate for the same!
- 1 Free T-shirt with your design on it of course!
- 1 Coffee Mug with your design as well!

Secondly, there are thematic contests from time to time where designers need to upload graphics that strictly fit into a certain theme. If a graphic does not match the theme, it will automatically be shifted to the Always On contest or the Talking Tees contest as the case might be. For these thematic contests, the contest page carries the prize details and this varies from contest to contest.

We give the option to the winning designer. We can make the payment by cheque or PayPal.

The designs that feature on the challenger section are designs that have not won a contest but have been close contenders. If a design from this section keeps receiving many comments and votes, it still has a chance to be declared a winner.

The critique section includes a list of designs that need a bit of reworking before they can be put up on the voting section.
Anyone can comment on a design in the critiques section. Based on the comments your design receives, you can tweak the design a bit and re-upload it.

Definitely, we would be happy to have you on-board!

Inkfruit has exclusive rights to print the winning design on apparels and paper and mugs and bags. To know more, please refer to our legal policy.

It takes 48-72 hrs for our admin team to review new designs and accept or reject them. If they are accepted, your design will be visible on the voting page, and if not, you will receive a mail intimating you about the same.

A design which has once been uploaded and voted on, cannot be re-uploaded in its existing form. However, you can look at the comments and suggestions made by Inkfruit members - rework on the design and then re-upload it in the competition for voting.

If you like a design and would love to buy it if it wins the contest, you can click the ‘ I’d buy this’ link and if it does win you will receive a mail telling you that the design has won.

No, all our designs are printed on t-shirts and a select few are printed on mugs.

No. Inkfruit does not do custom printing as of now. A design will be available under Inkfruit only if it is selected by all of you as the best! No other design will be made available either on a t-shirt, mug, poster or any other canvas.

A design can be rejected because of the following reasons:
1. Colors used in the design. Color Gradations are not accepted. Therefore, photo-content of any kind is not accepted. Total number of colors used in a submission also needs to be below 5 in number.
2. Same design being submitted repeatedly. In this case duplicate entries will be removed. You cannot submit one design in multiple competitions either.
3. Offensive content of any kind. If we receive complaints of either adult content being uploaded or of the creation being picked up from elsewhere, we will remove the design.
4. Infringement of copy rights. If the design submitted by you resembles exactly or closely an image/design belonging to some other name or source.
5. Design has consistently been scored very low by the Inkfruit community, has received no comments/discouraging comments or a combination of both low scores and negative comments.
6. The quality of jpeg/png/gif image submitted was of poor quality, affecting the visibility. Hence, the voting or comment process would not have done justice to your design.
7. Our screening committee has decided not to release this design for voting. No, we are not policing submissions on the website. However, it happens at times that submissions like 'I love inkfruit' plain text qualify as per the do’s and don’ts, but do not bring any creative work to the inkfruit platform.

Definitely, you are entitled to know why you creation has been rejected. Just drop a mail to kais@inkfruit and we will get back to you with the reason.

If you are facing problems in uploading your design on Inkfruit this can only be because of the following reasons:
1. File uploaded must be square (width=height) and 500px by 500px. Rectangular files will get cropped and not appear correctly.
2. File uploaded must be within 150kb in size.

You get 50 reward points for submitting a photo on Inkfruit. You can use these reward points to get some awesome discounts.

No, only a proud inkfruitian can flaunt their tee by submitting their own picture.

The photos you upload should have you with your Inkfruit t-shirt. If the photo you upload doesn’t have a Inkfruit t-shirt it stands to be deleted.

Comments that have been posted under your designs can’t be deleted. Yet, if you would like to delete designs from ‘my scraps’ section there is a delete option that you can use.

Below each design that is open to voting, you will find a ‘report abuse’ button. Click on it and type in the URL where the design is copied from. The design will be deleted from the site and strict action will be taken against the designer.

The inkfruit affiliate programme enables you to create your own merchandise store on your website or blog. As a member, you are entitled to create your affiliate page. You can customize your page, or publicise and promote your store using your personalised link eg.www.inkfruit.com/affiliate/jack. But most of all, this section allows you to earn a commission on every sale made via your store. As an affiliate, you can track you commission online anytime.

All members on inkfruit automatically have their affiliate page created. All you need to do is get your affiliate HTML code, customize your page and you’ll be on your way. KACHING!!!! If you are not currently a member on inkfruit all you need to do is go to the affiliate section and ‘sign up as an affiliate’, get your code and create your store.

You can get your affiliate code on the following link
http://www.inkfruit.com/affiliate/getaffiliate.php

As an inkfruit affiliate:
1. You earn a commission on every sale made in your store.
2. It helps in activating and increasing the traffic on your web page or blog

You can either receive your commission by cheque or PayPal.

If you wish to close your affiliate page, you can by dropping a mail to this effect to affiliate(at)inkfruit(dot)com. However, why you would wish to do that is something we don't understand. ;) I mean who wouldn't like to earn money by selling the coolest of tees to other people and spreading happiness in the world?!

We respect your right to privacy. At inkfruit.com we collect only the information necessary for us to complete your order or to contact you regarding the status of your order. The information we collect includes your name, email address, shipping address, and billing address.
Ink Fruit does not store your credit card or online bank account information.
Inkfruit.com will not rent or sell your name or personal information. Inkfruit.com does utilize "cookies" to help recognize you as a repeat visitor and to track traffic patterns on our site. This information is completely anonymous. We use this information only to improve the user-friendliness and functionality of inkfruit.com. Inkfruit.com reserves the right to update this privacy policy at anytime. Updates to our privacy policy will be sent to the email address that you have provided us.

Inkfruit only stores information uploaded by you during the registeration process and shared by while you comment and interact with other members on the website. No transaction information such as credit card details, etc. are stored in our database. These details are directly inputed by you into the bank payment gateways which are completely secure. Inkfruit does not handle this sensitive data or store it in any way.