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Looking for Help Finding Equipment & Material Used for Custom, Repositionable, Non Toxic, Fabric Decals.

Saw another vendor offering these products Decals — Sweet Grace Art, https://www.facebook.com/pg/sweetgraceart/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10153871148706576, and would love to be able to make this myself. Was trying to figure out what machine, and what product to use.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

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these are done with the same machine that prints onto htv for t-shirts,
eco-solvent printers

not sure where you got the idea they are non-toxic though,
pretty sure that ink is fairly debilitating if consumed in large enough quantities
unless there are some soy-based inks out there that work for this application

 

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Be advised you need a solvent based printer for that type of vinyl... and they are NOT cheap... The Roland BN20 is around 8 grand or so the last time I looked. I think Graphtec might make a 24 that is somewhat more economical, I think they told me somewhere around $5K when I was browsing at ISS/AC.

 

[scripto]

go here

these are done with the same machine that prints onto htv for t-shirts,
eco-solvent printers

not sure where you got the idea they are non-toxic though,
pretty sure that ink is fairly debilitating if consumed in large enough quantities
unless there are some soy-based inks out there that work for this application

Which machine would that be? I already own a Cricket, & Silhouette but I am assuming this is a more professional model. I'm in the market to upgrade, can you recommend one to look at?

I only say Non Toxic, as that is how the vendor I found is advertising them.

Also curious if there is an online vendor that makes these for resellers which I could offer to my customers in the meantime?

 

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Be advised you need a solvent based printer for that type of vinyl... and they are NOT cheap... The Roland BN20 is around 8 grand or so the last time I looked. I think Graphtec might make a 24 that is somewhat more economical, I think they told me somewhere around $5K when I was browsing at ISS/AC.

What if we were looking to make customer sticker packs, but not the repositionable stickers. Just regular, does that change anything?

Also in the market for a printer for high quality heat transfers. I'm wondering if there is one printer I could purchase that would do both?

 

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If by sticker packs you mean printed decals, yes, a solvent printer would be what you need. I am not that familiar with them since I haven't found a market to justify the cost of one but I have looked into them somewhat. hard to find one under $10K although as I mentioned above, I saw one at ISS/AC that was IIRC a 24 inch model and it was around $6.5K. I just did some looking around and it was a Mutoh Valuejet 628... Not sure where I had graphtec on my mind.