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Old September 9th, 2007 Sep 9, 2007 4:55:48 PM -   #1 (permalink)
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hi, i have been reading through and posting on this forum for a little while and it has helped me a LOT with my set up and getting some equiptment, but right now i am kind of stuck on my next move, and was wondering if anyone or some of you could help me out at all.

what i am aiming to provide my customers.

'your image on t-shirt, mouse pad, coaster'

'your image on mugs'

stag do, party, birthday lettering shirts (any text basically)


the equiptment i have now is,

a 15x15 heat press
epson d88/c88(usa name) printer
a sublimation mug press
computer
digital camera
graphics work and lots of images.

what i am stuck on is the inks mainly,

i know i need sublimation inks for printing onto hard surfaces and mugs, and i also know that you can use sublimation printing to do t shirts as long as they are the right type of shirts for the sublimation ink.

at the moment i have durabrite inks for my d88 and i am about to order some ironall transfer paper for doing t shirts and mouse pads.

i have been told that it is not such a good idea to keep changing my ink cartridges from normal to the refillable sublimation inks, so would it be advisable to buy another printer just for sublimation printing?

or would sublimation inks work well with ironall transfer paper OR magic touch transfer paper, for use on normal cotton t shirts?

i have been looking for the last 3 hours and so much info is up here and on the net and lots of people have different opinions, i have just came to a dead end (i think i have looked at it for too much of a long time at once) haha. and just left myself


i know i have wrote quite a bit, just for a 'simlple' question sorry about that, but any help and or advice would be very much appreciated .

im going to have to go to bed now though and read any replies in the morning, my brain is fried. haha
 
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Old September 9th, 2007 Sep 9, 2007 10:01:43 PM -   #2 (permalink)
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I think yu need a second printer, A www.teesqareit.com( for aligning your transfers). You could also check into a laser printer for all your needs with 1 printer. ....JB
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Old September 10th, 2007 Sep 10, 2007 3:24:18 AM -   #3 (permalink)
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thank you for that, im going to look into a second printer over the next week or so, mugs will have to wait a little bit.
 
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