Help on what equipment I will need.

Seems easier to post a new thread and have someone answer you.

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Anyway, for someone that is just starting and does not know too too much about the tshirt making business....what supplies would I need to start off with. Is there somewhere I can go that would help me get started.

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It depends on what type of printing you want to do (and how much you want to do yourself).

You can outsource the printing (heat press or screen printing or direct to garment) OR you can buy the materials and equipment to do it yourself.

Heat press is basically using a big heated machine to press a design from transfer paper onto a t-shirt. The design on the transfer paper can be printed on your home printer or even printed on transfer paper by a screen printer (plastisol transfers).

Screen printing is pressing ink through an actual "screen" directly onto a garment. This is the "traditional" way of printing t-shirts. Sometimes called silk screening.

what would I need to make my own press designes as well as is there a machine that cuts letters?

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An optical cutter can cut letters shapes, logos and all types of things:
http://www.t-shirtforums.com/showthread.php?t=5073

So just from your experiences....which do you prefer....screen printing or pressing? Which do you find you selling most?

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I'm an old school screen printing fan

That said, the more I've learned about quality printed transfers done with a professional quality heat press, the more impressed I've been.

The recent Printwear tradeshow I attended really opened my eyes to the possibilites of heat pressed garments.

As to which sells more, I would guess, VERY generally speaking that screen printed shirts sell more since it is what is normally used for the shirts you see in retail clothing stores. It's what the big sites like threadless/tshirthell use to print their designs.

But there are also high volume sites selling heat pressed designs, direct to garment printed designs (like cafepress.com and spreadshirt.com).

So I don't think it's necessarily the printing medium that will decide the sales volume.