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Need lots of t-shirt printing advice Please!
I have been wanting to t-shirt print for quite a long time but kept putting it off. I have recently been researching the idea more and more and lucky me found this site. I have recently bought some transfer letters to try out using an iron not the best way just to experiement really. I feel I would rather go down that route of heat press vinyl . Been checking prices out on heat press and cutter plotter I guess I will be looking at about 1000.00 to get started.do you think.
Could anyone give me any advice of were to start.
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If I were you I’d steer clear of fabric vinyl for T-shirts. We’ve all got the machinery to do it anyway so that’s why we do it.
However it’s a fairly boring form of t-shirt art – not to say that you can’t make good looking things but it’s fairly labour intensive and the vinyl has it’s own foibles when it comes to weeding out the smaller letters. This takes quite a long time and if you were to charge the customer for the time you spent on their t-shirt in reality they’d just laugh at you. So in effect you end up working for nothing. 🙁
I’d look at screenprinting. I understand that the rigs are smaller now, the chemicals less hazerdous to the earth and human beans and you can get a far more intricate result, even multi coloured if you want.
Or it could just be that the grass is always greener……. 😀
Anyway I hope this helps.
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Get yourself a craft robo for cutting flex and flock,great bit of kit mate.Also you can pick up a good a4 heat press from £400 plus also i know a supplier that can get fotl tees for just 50p each.
Also you can get your heat transfers from just 10p each if you wanted to do them.Heat transfers you can possibly do 150 easy in just 1 hour and can make lots of money.
Takes just 15 seconds to press.I recently took around £600 on just transfered t-shirts on a sunday morning.Kids love them. -
I must be doing something very wrong, cut logo – weed – apply and do 150 an hour, I’ll have work a bit faster.
Alan -
Could you give us any good contacts for blank t-shirts buying.
Is it true that if I want to put heat transfers onto t-shirts do they have to be a particilar type. Any advice welcome for a novice.
thanks
JD
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Hi JohnnyDee ive just started out & am mainly doing t-shirts at the moment. I’m using vinyl for coloured shirts and sublimation printing for white sublimation shirts. Vinyl / Sublimation is a good route for doing one off/personalised designs. If your going to buy transfers make sure they are heat press ones and not inkjet/iron on .. or they wont last very long.
I havent yet ‘bulk’ ordered t-shirts but was looking at whistle-stop.co.uk for mine.
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Hi John
If you can afford it I would buy a plotter that will allow you to do a lot more than just t-shirts.
We do print lots of Ts and that was our main motivation when starting our business however people start asking if you can do small signs or put some letters on their car and there’s a lot more money to be made than just Ts.
Have fun
paul r
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best thing is to buy transfers on ebay from tropical transfers from the usa.Very cheap and top quality.
T-shirts theres a place in Leicester that sell fruit of the loom tees for 50p each.can give you number if you like.
Get your heatpress from dpsoftware bargain price and a top bloke also.
or ask printerowners.co.uk what deal they can do for you.Martin is a top bloke. -
Or you could try
http://www.themagictouch.com
They may not be the cheapest, but their support and backup is second to none.
We dont do t shirts anymore. it is a limited market, mainly because you need to do quantities to compete. We found that people did not want to pay for one offs.
Peter -
eliteprintshop
can you give me the phone number of the warehouse.
50p sounds great….
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Thanks for that advice 50p t-shirt sounds great have you got any details thank
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Easy Ordering. By Telephone. 0800 783 2417 or (0116) 2539776 email:multichoice@compuserve.com. By Post. M.C. Mail Order Express … 14-24 LittleHolme Street. Leicester. LE3 5NG
they advertise in the trader magazine.Have all there prices in there.I buy the kids ones 500 at a time for £250 cash.
Unfortunately the adult ones have tags cut but the kids ones doesnt. -
tags removed or cut are seconds.
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the kids arent cut they are superb quality.The number was on previous post.
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