badalou

Poor Janet at First Edition.. Apperently I wore the girl out today. Just got an email from her... She got 14 calls and 22 emails from t-shirt forum members.. She said she was going home.. she was tired. So where is my commission... LOL.. This forum has a lot of power behind it. If you are having a problem with a company I can tell you right now they do not want to see thie name here. Rodney you should set up a both at the other ISS shows I bet the sposers would gladly pay your way.. Of course you would need to take me..

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Quote: Originally Posted by MotoskinGraphix I did business with Janet at First Ed. initially with a phone call. Everything else we did in my order was via e-mail.

Hey I can vouche for First-Edition also. Yes, I had to call but I got the sample binder with plenty of different print types to practice with.

Another company you might try is Airwaves Inc. in Ohio Air Waves Inc. - Home Page

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Quote: Originally Posted by badalou Poor Janet at First Edition.. Apperently I wore the girl out today. Just got an email from her... She got 14 calls and 22 emails from t-shirt forum members.. She said she was going home.. she was tired. So where is my commission... LOL.. This forum has a lot of power behind it. If you are having a problem with a company I can tell you right now they do not want to see thie name here. Rodney you should set up a both at the other ISS shows I bet the sposers would gladly pay your way.. Of course you would need to take me..

Take Me TOO!!!

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Rodney

Quote: Another company you might try is Airwaves Inc. in Ohio Air Waves Inc. - Home Page

I do want to try Airwaves as well, since I really liked their booth at the ISS tradeshow.

I just can't remember if I filled out their online form or not I'll probably have to call them tomorrow and see.

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badalou

Quote: I just can't remember if I filled out their online form or not I'll probably have to call them tomorrow and see.

did they scan you.. I brought a lot of biz cards and used very little because they scan everyone. I hope this will not my.. well you know... The little guys.. hey I am only 63..

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Quote: did they scan you.. I brought a lot of biz cards and used very little because they scan everyone.

Unfortunately, I can't remember that either. Their booth was so busy (and they weren't the "best" at customer service), I can't remember if I got scanned or not. I vaguely remember having to leave my business card a couple of booths because their scanner wasn't working.

I haven't gotten any promo materials from any of the booths I got scanned at yet though.

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badalou

I have been getting email after email. Waiting for catalog surge in the mail. Like I don't have enough of those.

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Quote: Originally Posted by badalou I have been getting email after email. Waiting for catalog surge in the mail. Like I don't have enough of those.

I did the Atlanta show last fall, got scanned at all the booths of intrest.

I made it on a few mailing lists. I even got a few phone calls. One clipart company was bent on selling me a set of designs, the longer I listened, the lower the price went. The only problem was I didn't like the art style.

 

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Quote: Originally Posted by shirt-maker I think doing screenprinting myself will win out $$$ wise, but the flexibility that transfers offer is valuable too.

I think when you're dealing with that kind of volume screenprinting yourself wins $$$ wise, and contracting out the printing wins dollars vs. effort wise.

Quote: Originally Posted by shirt-maker Plus, I bet you can drink more beer while heat pressing too.

That'll leave some interesting scars

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Quote: Originally Posted by T-BOT Now, all one needs to do to get good quality is simply to ask the transfer maker to make them so that they won't CRACK.

So it's normal for transfer printers to make a product that cracks unless you ask them not to?

Sounds a bit like asking a car dealer if they can remember to put bolts in your car for you... "I'd like the one that doesn't fall apart please!" "Ooh, a discerning buyer!".

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I actually contacted First-Editon and they were more than willing to send out a sample pack. Great posts badalou!

 

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Annushka

Quote: Originally Posted by Solmu So it's normal for transfer printers to make a product that cracks unless you ask them not to? Sounds a bit like asking a car dealer if they can remember to put bolts in your car for you... "I'd like the one that doesn't fall apart please!" "Ooh, a discerning buyer!".

I'm glad that this post brought that up (especially Lucy). I'd never think this was normal.

Lou, I'm sorry....I tried 4 more samples from FE and they came out horrible, well they didn't come out in the first place. I haven't given up on them, I'm sure it's something on my end, but for now I'm going to stop wasting shirts and time on their stuff. In the meantime tried two more of the Transfer Exress samples and they released like butter.

Here's what I wanted to mention re: samples. I noticed last night that:
FE - didn't have any Hot Peels. They were all either hot splits or cold peels.
Transfer Exress - the soft hand samples that I liked a lot were also Hot Split (not Hot peels like I thought at first).
BUT, FE's hot splits actually were working like splits (i.e. some of the ink was staying on the paper). While TExpress ones had NO ink left on the paper after pressing. So I thought that was a little strange and the fact that these companies did not produce what seems to be the most common type of transfer - Hot Peel.

 

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Hot-splits split the ink. Hot-split transfers leave ink on the paper hot peels do not. Cold peels leave no ink on the paper and tend to be more glossy.

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I know David that's what I was saying - how come then Transfer Express' hot splits were leaving no ink on the paper (yet it clearly said Hot Split on the instructions). Just curious.

 

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