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Default Re: Does belt printing work with polo shirts?

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Originally Posted by GroundsKrew
1) I'm planning to do an initial run of about 100 shirts.

2) I haven't looked into any printers in the area. I'm in Manhattan, do you know of any?

3) I am going to print on the standard American Apparel polos.
For 100 shirts you will be better off hand printing your shirts with an oversized platen. A belt printer would print that order in 15 minutes. A belt printer is an over kill solution for your job and you will have to deal with the buttons. You will have to shelter them somehow.

You can print finished shirts on a belt printer but its real use is cut pieces before they are sewn.

Are you printing something more original than stripes?

Search this forum for 'belt print' for sources we have mentioned in the past.

M & R in Glen Ellen, IL and ask for referals to belt printers on the East Coast. M&R Companies, Amscomatic, Nuarc

Call M & R on Long Island and ask Stan if there are any belt printers in the neighborhood. 718-591-7615

The Original Precision Belt Printers were made in NJ, so there may be some on the East Coast.
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Last edited by RichardGreaves; March 23rd, 2007 at 02:01 PM.