Discuss the various aspects of heat press technology. Transfer paper, inks, plastisol transfers, vinyl cutters, printers, commercial usage, durability, suppliers, etc.
Must say... it's quite impressive. It has allowed me to cut down printing time by a huge amount on one customer whom we supply hundreds of garments to each month.
They have a two colour logo, which before we were printing using vinyl (the customer REFUSED to have it screened). It took lots of time to weed out the text details, but no more!
The whole process of getting the prints ready to apply does not take as long as i thought it would, bit fiddly lining up but easy enough! Overall... i'm impressed! Lets just hope the price reduces in the near future!
Also got some paper for printing wine boxes, glass bottles, candles, mugs etc, yet to test!
For hundreds per month, wouldn't plastisol transfers be a better choice? For that quantity, you should be selling the printed shirt for about what a sheet of Wow costs. Plastisol transfers, two colors, in that quantity should be less than a dollar.
For hundreds per month, wouldn't plastisol transfers be a better choice? For that quantity, you should be selling the printed shirt for about what a sheet of Wow costs. Plastisol transfers, two colors, in that quantity should be less than a dollar.
Im not familiar with plastisol? But the logo's are only small chest prints, 85mm in width, so i'm getting a good few on each shirt... so really each print isn't costing me much.
I'm so so with the paper, it still has a hand to it, it felt a lot smoother at a show i saw, now i know why they chose a broken up design...
plasitsol is a silkscreening ink for silkscreened transfers
i checked with my guys online quoter and if your design is about 85mm x 85mm you would be able to fit about 10 on one of their sheets and run 20 sheets (their min qty) the cost would be about 130.00 or 0.65 per design and you can easyly press about 100 per hour. they feel much softer than vinyl, easyer to do, probably cheaper (or the difference is insignificant) than vinyl.
i saw the wow demo and got a minishirt with a pirate desin on it from the ISS show. and after they were all done and then told me the price i simply smiled, shook hands, thank you thank you and walked away. it is a very good paper, but the cost and time to do it seemed so high i just couldnt see my self using it.
plasitsol is a silkscreening ink for silkscreened transfers
i checked with my guys online quoter and if your design is about 85mm x 85mm you would be able to fit about 10 on one of their sheets and run 20 sheets (their min qty) the cost would be about 130.00 or 0.65 per design and you can easyly press about 100 per hour. they feel much softer than vinyl, easyer to do, probably cheaper (or the difference is insignificant) than vinyl.
thanks for taking the time for that, much appreciated!
I have just realised i have used plastisol transfers before. Do you know how these are produced? Is it expensive to do?
HI there! What is WOW paper? I do plastisol one color custom transfer heat pressing in the Yucatan (Mexico) and the idea of printing on wine glasses, candles n things is very interesting!! Thanks!
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Also got some paper for printing wine boxes, glass bottles, candles, mugs etc, yet to test![/quote]
I would be interested in this. If anyone knows of a way to print on glass besides pad or sublimation, I would love to hear about it.
It would be great to be able to print in full color on items that did not need a special coating like sublimation.
I would be interested in this. If anyone knows of a way to print on glass besides pad or sublimation, I would love to hear about it.
It would be great to be able to print in full color on items that did not need a special coating like sublimation.
if your customer refuses to have them screen printed, he most likely wont want plastisol transfers either
I find this very odd that they don't want screen printing.. What does your customer know that we don't. Because probably 90% off all shirts are screen printed. I can see the customer say.. yeah, I want heat transfers that are expensive and may wash out. what is missing here. Oh and I want 200 of them.. Sorry.. something is just not right.
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I find this very odd that they don't want screen printing.. What does your customer know that we don't. Because probably 90% off all shirts are screen printed. I can see the customer say.. yeah, I want heat transfers that are expensive and may wash out. what is missing here. Oh and I want 200 of them.. Sorry.. something is just not right.
Well my experience with screen printers (here) has sucked. They need minimums, they take time to print your order, they forget to print your order, they don't properly cure the shirts and customers come back with the ink washed off making you look like ****e. I switched to one color plastisol transfers of all my designs and I am one happy customer (and so are all my clients).
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