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| erospulsation |
 Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:50 pm |
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I have recently started a business to print t-shirts. We have about 15 designs thus far, and have received great feedback from interested people. Our original idea was to start out with iron on transfer t-shirts and trucker hats. However, we did a few tests lastnight and we were very disappointed in the shitty quality they turned out to be. It seems the only way to make this a successful business is to get into a silk screeening, or I have heard better things by using a heat transfer press.
What are the differences in results between using an iron or a heat transfer machine? Will there be a significant improvement with the product, or are we just better off going right into silk screening? Also, is there a certain brand or type of tranfer that will show improvement?
For silk screening, we have very little funds. We are just poor college kids at michigan state university, but this business is legit, and there is no doubt in our minds it won't be successful. Is there a very inexpensive way to start silk screening. We also have a limited amount of room to do the screening. Any help would be rad.
Thanks for your time everyone,
if you want you can email me at: [email protected]
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| Annex Skates |
| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 4:18 pm |
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There are screened transfers that are used in heat press machine and there are the iron on heat transfers. I started using the iron on ones and also found them to be very bad quality. From my personal experiences it is cheaper to get into the screen printing rather than the good heat transfer process. I also think that the whole process of screen printing is a lot better and you will have more future in it.
To get started there are many starter packs on the net... I first started out with a speedball fabric kit. You can check on ebay or dickblick.com
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| erospulsation |
| Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 4:49 pm |
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Thanks Annex,
That is the cheapest way to start screening I have found yet. Talking from the perspective of a person who has no background in screening what so ever, would we need other tools and materials besides that package on http://www.dickblick.com/zz449/24b/pr...ram=0&ig_id=6098?
I find we just need some kind of direction with all this.
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| Annex Skates |
| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 8:16 pm |
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Also just to let you know, For the garmet printing, dont waste your money on textile and water based inks... get some plastisol inks. I have had the most luck and quality with that! You will have to heat dry it with a heat gun or drying unit. Use xylene for screen cleanup. You can try standard screen supply for that, they also have used frames with new mesh for 9.00. http://www.standardscreen.com/
Just thought i would let you know...
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