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Richboyceo · February 14th, 2009

Hello I am looking to see if anyone has any exprience pressing car flags? I have a customer who wants 1000 black car flags with purple trim and basic white lettering. Does anyone know of a good supplier? I was thinking about making these with Plastisol Transfers. How much should I charge for this job? Here are the specs

Car Flags - approx $2/each
2 color print- purple trim - white letters
quantity - approx 1000

I am thinking that I could gang a few plastisol transfers to cut costs... let me know what you think...
-Mike

proworlded · February 14th, 2009

You have to make sure that the nylon can withstand the heat and won't melt. I would think that screen printing (at less than $1) each would be preferable and save you any labor costs.

selzler · February 14th, 2009

I would do them with sublimation.

Richboyceo · February 14th, 2009

Is sublimation expensive?

tfalk · February 14th, 2009

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Originally Posted by selzler


	I would do them with sublimation.

Can you print white onto a black garment using sublimation? DTG is out, it would be too time consuming to pretreat and print that many....

Vinyl would work but I don't think I'd want to cut and weed 1000 pieces.... Screen printing would really be your cheapest alternative.

InspiredImp · February 17th, 2009

We've done sublimation car flags, but it is not an option for black flags.
Whatever you choose, make sure the material is soft enough to flutter - not too heavy.

As for price,
we charged $12.95 each with a much smaller production run: about 24. And a setup fee.
But, we were being compared to $20-$30 each from other sources.

So, basically, do some searching online to see what the market is in your area. You definately should be charging this one according to what the market can handle as opposed to what your costs are since they will be minimal.