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T-shirts – printing – Equipment & advice?
Can anyone direct me toward any equipment for the above ?
Also if anyone has any advice as to which way to go it would be greatly apreciated 🙂
We are just looking at adding maybe another string to our bow.
We already have a PC60 which we use but, I believe this will probably be too expensive to use for say multiple runs of one or two designs. I also think using the Roland to cut will be time consuming and pretty limiting when it comes to multi-colour runs
We need to go the multi colour option (if there is one) rather than single colour.Any ideas on which machimery we could use and approx cost of new or used ?………….and anything else you may feel relevant 😕
Thanks
Ian -
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I’m sure the pc60 is an excellent machine for small full colour tshirt logos.
You can get heat press material ( similar to vinyl but rubbery! ) that you cut in reverse on a plotter then weed and heat press onto the shirt. You can find heat presses secondhand on ebay for around 300 quid or you can buy em from grafityp, who also do the material.
Cheers
Joe -
Thanks Joe
but I’m sure we have tried the vinyl stuff before.
It was quite hard to weed and didn’t really give good adhesive results.
It was also difficult with small designs especially when you had more than
one colour.I will ring Grafityp though and see what they recommend.
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Hi Peely
We use cut garment vinyl to do a lot of multi coloured intricate designs without too much trouble.
https://www.uksignboards.com/download.php?id=3703
You need to phone around a few suppliers and get them to send samples for you to try.
Victory design do a garment film that is very thin and comes on a sticky backing making weeding much easier.
Paul R(Mackerelbus design)
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for larger orders, screen printing is the way to go.
100+ tee shirts in an hour is quite feasable.
only down side you need a bit of room.
you could set up for around £1500 quite easliy, buying 2nd user equipment.
beware of really cheap products, ok for small runs, but you`ll never get over 20 an hour.
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😮 blimey paul – what a bit of weeding……..
or is that 50p coin 2 ft tall? 🙂
What type of material did you use for that and is the multicoloured bit printed or overlaid?
If it’s cut and overlaid, how do you press it without messing the previous layer?????
cheers
joe -
Joe
It is all cut and overlaid using easymark (formaly Hotmark) from victory design 01246 570570
easymark is quite easy to weed even at these sizes due to its sticky carrier.
And you can overlay many layers because it is so thin
Paul R(Mackerelbus design)
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