Discuss the various aspects of heat press technology. Transfer paper, inks, plastisol transfers, vinyl cutters, printers, commercial usage, durability, suppliers, etc.
I'm curious if people generally order extra plastisol transfers when doing custom jobs. Do you order extras in case your customer changes their mind about quantity or if you accidentally ruin one?
It's common to order a few extra. IN fact, most plastisol vendors will actually send an extra 1 or 2 more than you ordered along with it in case of problems and such. It can also be a selling factor to have extras on hand already, though it can suck to be left with extras you can't do anything with too, of course.
I usually order about a dozen or so extra. Alot of time people will come back to me and need a few extra that they want to pass out, got dirty, added more players to a team, etc. I also order a few extra and use one to do a long sleeve or sweatshirt as a sample of other shirts. 95% of the time people have come back and ordered sweatshirts and then you have the logo on stock in which you paid a little less for the extras instead of being charged more for just a few. I use the box in which they come in put a sticker of who it is and how many and thats it. I recomend highly on extras. Its really nice when they come to you for 1 or 2 and you can get them to them in a few hours as compared to 3 days to order and get. Just my thought! Let me know what you do or what others do.
I order a few extra in case of a re order. I store them in pizza boxes. I put what's in the box onthe outside along with the date of their order. Good luck. ..... JB
I think it's always a good idea to have a few extras on hand. Especially if it is a repeat customer, like a sports league or a restaurant chain and the like.
Sometimes you might be surprised to find out that going up to the next price point and calculating the total cost at that quantity turns out to not be much more expensive than the actual quantity you need. I generally do this (within reason) and just take that total cost and divide it by the actual number of shirts required as part of my quote (i.e I pass the extra cost along to the customer). Of course...you have to be reasonable about it.
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Extra Plastisol Transfers? 
