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Florimonte · March 6th, 2009

HI!
Have you folks with auto pre-treaters thought to offer pre-treated shirts as an additional service??? I know, you're like "Why and When would i have time to do that?" -or- "I'm using the machine myself, when would i have the time?" You could hire a couple college students to work some over night sift to make use of the auto-treater that's just sitting there doing nothing overnight.
What-cha think???

-T

Florimonte · March 11th, 2009

No responses to me means either of two things: ONE- This is dumb question - or - TWO- No one owns one of the pre-treatment machines...

-T

abmcdan · March 11th, 2009

Thomas,

Search the forum and you will find some threads where this was discussed a couple different times.

Andy

JMclothing · March 11th, 2009

I have found that pre-treating a shirt and leaving then over night or a couple days you do not get the same print quality as printing it right away...I have had some people send me shirts pretreated, because their machine has gone down in the middle of a job and had to re-treat the shirts...

equipmentzone · March 14th, 2009

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Originally Posted by Florimonte


	HI! Have you folks with auto pre-treaters thought to offer pre-treated shirts as an additional service??? I know, you're like "Why and When would i have time to do that?" -or- "I'm using the machine myself, when would i have the time?" You could hire a couple college students to work some over night sift to make use of the auto-treater that's just sitting there doing nothing overnight. What-cha think??? -T

Before we started developing our SpeedTreater automatic pretreating machine we thought about selling pretreated shirts to our printer customers. We even built a giant automated spraying and drying machine with 16 shirt holders and measuring 14' x 20'. What a monster. But when we started doing the numbers, with the variations in colors, sizes, fronts, backs, sleeves, styles - it just did not make sense as a viable business model to stock blank goods. Customers would then have had to send their garments in to be pretreated and when you factored in the freight costs and time here and back it was just too much. That is why we went ahead with the SpeedTreater because it made more economic sense for the individual shop to have their own automatic pretreatment machine on their own premises.

sunnydayz · March 20th, 2009

I agree I don't think its a viable option. #1 you would have to know exactly what area needs to be pretreated depending on the print itself. #2 I too agree that once a shirt has been pretreated, if it sits to long, moisture will get into the shirt and cause it not to print as well.

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