Actually it will take you to his paint ball jersey site but you can get his contact info from there. He is here in the forum to, I think his forum name is On-Line Jerseys.
Thats a Shirts and Logos full dye sub shirt. There are several companies out there that do it for the softball crowd (Them shirts, Sports 55, among others). There are a couple who will be willing to contract out their services.
So basically the image is printed on a large paper and pressed onto a poly shirt with a large heat press? Say I only wanted to put a logo on some shirts, could I just get a gx7000, a heat press, paper, and some vapor tee shirts and do this myself?
If you want to do dye sub with images no larger than 13 x 19, then the GX7000 would be a great setup. Obviously you could do large front and back images as well as sleeves and pockets and anywhere else you might want to stick a graphic on the shirt. But, the image you provided is like Big Frank said, a cut and sew job.
Sonya a.k.a. "Conde Tech" on the forum, can give you all the info you need about the GX7000.
Ya I am just looking to do a large logo in front and a large number and name on the back. Main thing is I want them to be poly shirts. So i have no problems with it not being a full dye sub shirt.
The printer that bornover reccomended is great and in my opinion better than the ink jets. I have had the 1280 and I now have the GX7000. For what you want the GX7000 is perfect.
I am not too familiar with the sublimation process, so don't mind this question.
Is the poly material blank white, and then all colors are sublimated onto it, then cut and sewn.
Or, is the blank blue, then sublimated, then cut and sew?
I would assume that white can not be printed for sublimation, so the material must be white, then all colors come from the sublimation.
So you would need a very large format printer and an over sized heat press to do such a shirt, assuming you have the ability to cut and sew.
Auggieboy - you are right about that. Everything is white then all colors sublimated on the white then cut and sewn together.
Thanks, that's what I thought. I know Teamwork Apparel is doing this with there ADV system.
That is a pretty neat way to do some color matching but they must be terribly expensive.
Seems expensive to get into besides the cost of a wide format sublimation printer and the ink, wide body heat presses must be fairly expensive.
The cost of equipment is way up there, but once you get it, the profit margins increase a lot. I subcontract out my full dye sub but do my own softball uniforms with regular dye sub. Keep in mind that not all polyester shirts will sublimate the same. I primarily use Wickid, Vapor Apparel and Badger for my uniforms.
The cost of equipment is way up there, but once you get it, the profit margins increase a lot. I subcontract out my full dye sub but do my own softball uniforms with regular dye sub. Keep in mind that not all polyester shirts will sublimate the same. I primarily use Wickid, Vapor Apparel and Badger for my uniforms.
Thanks Frank,
do you use all the wide format equipment or just standard sizes?
I would love to see some pics.
Len
I use the GX7000 that I got from Conde. This machine can print up to 13x19 which will pretty much cover the whole front or back of a shirt but RARELY do I use that size. 11x17 works great and allows for easy placement on the shirts.
Shoot me your email and i will send you some pics. I will also be in NJ this weekend playing ball in Lakewood.
softball jerseys like this one 
