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I found this forum yesterday and have spent a GOOD part of yesterday AND today going through tons of forums. There is SO much to process here.
set-up
I'm starting up my company and I'm going to introduce 5 shirts up front. 2-3 colors each (3 light colored shirts(white, green, light brown) and 2 black shirts).
Question:
Do I get platisol transfers created (some shirts will have the same back so good opportunity to gang), buy a $300-400 heat press, buy the shirts and do it myself?
Or...do I let someone else handle this for this first run and if it's successful look at buying the heat press?
I think I'll end up doing 150 shirts of each design, so I'd end up doing about 750 shirts up front.
(estimate from others 3 color front & back 150 shirts $6.75)
I've got an assistant that works part-time for me that I pay $10 hour that could handle doing the heat transfers if need be.
Am I correct in seeing that there's typically about a $2ish margin on shirts and we could probably do 1 shirt every 2 minutes for 30 shirts an hour?
If so, that seems to be saving $60/hour and then paying my assistant $10/hour. AND being able to print on demand more so. If I did the 150 shirts, I'd need to so different quantities for each size and if I sold out of a size, I'd need to order a lot more.
I know this is rambling some, but I'm guessing all you 'pros' out there are following me on this.
I've got enough people nearby that would work for $10/hour (I know..little high..but that's fine) that I don't believe I would end up doing much work on this myself.
If one of you pros could walk me through the pros/cons, that would be great!
I've tried to search forums, but not sure where to look and there's just a bunch going right now.
Thanks for any help.
I don't want to really start a t-shirt business per se, but it seems like the on demand thing could give me some great flexibility in regards to sizes and quantities.
set-up
I'm starting up my company and I'm going to introduce 5 shirts up front. 2-3 colors each (3 light colored shirts(white, green, light brown) and 2 black shirts).
Question:
Do I get platisol transfers created (some shirts will have the same back so good opportunity to gang), buy a $300-400 heat press, buy the shirts and do it myself?
Or...do I let someone else handle this for this first run and if it's successful look at buying the heat press?
I think I'll end up doing 150 shirts of each design, so I'd end up doing about 750 shirts up front.
(estimate from others 3 color front & back 150 shirts $6.75)
I've got an assistant that works part-time for me that I pay $10 hour that could handle doing the heat transfers if need be.
Am I correct in seeing that there's typically about a $2ish margin on shirts and we could probably do 1 shirt every 2 minutes for 30 shirts an hour?
If so, that seems to be saving $60/hour and then paying my assistant $10/hour. AND being able to print on demand more so. If I did the 150 shirts, I'd need to so different quantities for each size and if I sold out of a size, I'd need to order a lot more.
I know this is rambling some, but I'm guessing all you 'pros' out there are following me on this.
I've got enough people nearby that would work for $10/hour (I know..little high..but that's fine) that I don't believe I would end up doing much work on this myself.
If one of you pros could walk me through the pros/cons, that would be great!
I've tried to search forums, but not sure where to look and there's just a bunch going right now.
Thanks for any help.
I don't want to really start a t-shirt business per se, but it seems like the on demand thing could give me some great flexibility in regards to sizes and quantities.