May 8th, 2008
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|  Re: What Should I Do? I've got 21 designs to start out with - that's a lot of inventory
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Originally Posted by BSApparel |  | | | | | | | | | I posted up a few posts that I print my own transfers. Well I did, until I had a few orders and wasn't able to apply them correctly. I spent the next week trying to make transfers that printed well and transfered well with almost no success, and now I'm back to printing individual designs. It's VERY hard to make your own transfers I've learned, so it's definitely not for everyone.
To make it easier on myself, I am only printing on the weekends now, which means that I can print all of the weeks orders of each design at the same time, so I only have to keep about 15 screens in stock. I still print in bulk, because I do all of the week's orders of design A, then all of the orders of design B, etc. This way I don't have to set up/clean up the machine for each individual order that comes in, and I don't need to keep 200+ screens in inventory - I just make screens for the week's orders. If I run out of screens, I reclaim a few after I'm done printing a design, and use them for the next one.
With a high-turnover business one weekend probably isn't enough time to print all of the orders, but it works for me for the time being. | |  | |  | | Do you mind giving us an update on how your business is going? Are you still printing on the weekend? Did you get transfers down (lick the art of transfers)? I'm dying to know. It's like a soap opera.  |
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