[wobblez]

This post is for ideals on transporting and storage of you transfer at events.
We press the shirts at the event, this last year what we used was rubbermaid tubs with Xray folders to store and transport transfers.
This next year we plan to change it all up.
We will be buying the rolling tool chest and mounting the heat press to the top of it and then storing the transfers in the drawers.
Less lifting of the tubs and heat press just roll it all on the trailer.
Now for those of you that do event what setup do you use?

 

[stuffnthingz]

I have two travel sized presses, t-shirt and cap. I put my transfers in binders if they are 8 1/2 x 11 or smaller. I buy the clear 3 hole punch sleeves with a top flap so nothing can slip out. I preprint 3 or so of each design depending on the show. I use an oversized zip up fabric portfolio for my larger transfers. I also have a huge shallow tub full of baggied sample shirts, folks love to paw through them. I gave up on keeping them neet and orderly and clean (I attend horse shows...horses=dirt). T-shirts are stored in wheeled see through drawer dressers. I put the presses on height adjustable folding tables from camping world set to the tallest height they will go. I have a small 3d gridwall free-standing display 4' heigh to display items on and hang shirts from. In preparation for perhaps one day bringing my big press to shows, I have it bolted to a very sturdy office desk with wheels. I just cannot figure out how to lift it in and out of the trailer yet (no ramp). I can't wait to see more ideas!

 

[wobblez]

We do bike rallies and most off the are gravel roads so dust is a big problem like the horse shows. so what we do is bring a small air compressor to blow the dust off the display shirts. if the dust is really bad we blow them off every morning but they always get blown off before load back on the trailer.

 

[stuffnthingz]

I like the small air compressor idea, right now I use canned air and a duster Is the air compressor noisy? I am usually in an arena in the stands and cannot be making a huge racket...

 

[greyhorsewoman]

We carry about 2,000 designs with us to events ~~ average about 30 weekends a year.

We use the plastic file boxes from office max or depot and keep each style in a clear plastic page protector inside soft 3-hole folders. (All our transfers are within 8 1/2x11 dimension.)

Before this, we just kept them in regular notebooks, and loaded them in snap tubs for transport, but with more and more inventory, we have graduated to the file boxes.

We display an array of our shirt designs across the front of our booth on pvc pipe, snapped on by upside hangers inside of the shirts. Fold them up and it looks quite catchey.

We hang other examples of apparel around the booth with price tags. We trade out designs periodically, so people see new designs.

I also used a regular bedsheet at one point, pressed as many designs as I could on it and would hang it in the booth. That worked great, but we have graduated to some other product and don't have hanging space for them anymore.

Up to now, we have bolted our heat press on a collapsible workbench I got at Sears. Has worked great. We recently purchased a 10 foot cube van, and with the added space (and height) we are hoping to permanently put the press on it's own rollon cabinet, probably a Craftsman style of some sort.

 

[stuffnthingz]

I like the idea of graduating from the notebooks to a cube file box, I am up to three notebooks and one is bursting (the rhinestone one). Now for your customers, how do they view all your designs (2k is alot to sift through), do they have a master book(s) they can look through. Right now my notebooks have a front view of the graphic with the mirrored transfers behind. I cannot even fathom 2000 designs, I am about a tenth of that...

 

[greyhorsewoman]

Since we focus on dog shows, we photocopied all our designs and have them displayed in 8 books (7 groups plus 1 for events, sayings, humorous).

Each book is in alphabetical order. So if you come to the booth, our first question is 'what breed?' ... we can then direct our customers to the appropriate book and they will focus on the 3-25 designs we have in that breed.

We are very interactive with our customers. We have added all kinds of apparel over time (t-shirts, SS/LS, ladies' t-s, tanktops, sweatshirts, hooded sweats, nightshirts, denims, variety of totes, mousepads, umbrellas, etc.)

Whatever your venue, you have to make it easy and friendly for your customers.

 

[wobblez]

I like the small air compressor idea, right now I use canned air and a duster Is the air compressor noisy? I am usually in an arena in the stands and cannot be making a huge racket...

not that bad just use it after the days events are over.

 

[greyhorsewoman]

Our biggest laugh is when it rains, Our display shirts across the front of our booth get wet. We don't care ... we wrap them up after the show and wash them.

However, it's funny how many customers will stop to TELL US ... 'you know your shirts are getting wet.'

 

[alrozac]

I like the sheet idea, I am planning on attending sporting events and was thinking of putting my designs on a piece of plywood and hang it up somehow,but the sheet idea is awesome.