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So this past week I had over 100 shirts to make with some serious weeding and after doing about 10 quick prints and weeding, I thought to myself there is no way I am going to do 100 of these and make any money.
With a quick suggestion from Steven, he told me to get some heat transfers made which is basically the same as screen printing. I quickly had some made and had it overnighted to me. Because the characteristics of this is different than quickprint, I found myself with issues "around the back of the collar" With the quickprint I use a pillow there so that the collar does not show up in the back when I press it. It is worse with the plastisol heat transfers, but another call to Steven "which he was happy to hear from me and was eagar to help" he gave me about 3 different solutions. 2-3 hours later I was done with the whole job!
I didn't really get to thank Steven Properly as I was pressed for time on the phone as I had all these shirts to press, so I wanted to write this little public Thank You to Him. Thank You Steven for your help and your hospitality to me.

I'll try and post some pictures up later.

TurboDave

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Permalink Reply by Louis Chan Chui on February 3, 2010 at 7:09pm
My designs are a whole variety (colors, sizes, etc). I'd love to hear the "options for minimal weeding" you mentioned Jennifer. What's quickprint? I've attached a sample of one of my custom heat transfer designs (it's a traditional Samoan tattoo). You can easily see there's a lot of weeding needed.
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Jackson on February 3, 2010 at 7:14pm
I can upload a few images tomorrow for you so you can see what I am referring to and some options for not weeding. Quickprint is just the name of a material that is printable and can be heat applied to material. For example, if you wanted to, you can print the design you uploaded and only cut an edge around the entire design. The black can be black and the white would be material showing through (White of the quickprint, the glitter of glitterprint material, the silver reflect of reflective material). - It is probably much easier to show so I will upload picture tomorrow but I hope this gave you some idea of what I was talking about. :-)
Permalink Reply by Louis Chan Chui on February 3, 2010 at 7:31pm
Thanks Jennifer. I'll check out the picture you'll upload tomorrow then. Really appreciate your kind assistance.
Permalink Reply by Jennifer Jackson on February 4, 2010 at 2:38pm
The first picture was quick print and it was a left chest logo on sweatshirt for a local fire department. All of the white shown is the "quick print". There was minimal weeding. I took the whole row and peeled away the outside.

The second picture is very similar but it was a full back for a different company. The white being the "quick Print" material showing through. I could have easily chosen to change all of that to black and printed it, but the company was pleased with the white.

The third is actually a picture of a decal. This company has done full decals on white material, reflective material and reflective print material with this logo. (I tried to find the picture with the reflective print but couldnt...but it looked awesome!) - The gray you see as the background for the patch is printed gray, but on the reflective print, we deleted the gray and the reflective silver stood out more. (Minimal weeding)....I think I have some more that I will try and post but I hope this helps!
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Permalink Reply by Eric Datanagan on February 16, 2011 at 10:10pm

Hi Steven,

What do you suggest for something like this?

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Eric Datanagan on February 16, 2011 at 10:12pm

you'll notice I put a black background, which of course they're not going to want.   I tried express print with different force settings, not having any luck.  thanks again!

Permalink Reply by Eric Datanagan on February 16, 2011 at 10:15pm
oops SORRY Jennifer!!  I misread and thought you were Steven!!
Permalink Reply by Jennifer Jackson on February 17, 2011 at 8:57am
How many will you be doing of these and what size?
Permalink Reply by John on February 17, 2011 at 7:26am
How many shirts are you talking?
Permalink Reply by Kim Lynch on February 17, 2011 at 8:03am
Eric, if your just doing a single color job (what it appears to me)-white,  I'd suggest Eco-Film from IW.  If I were doing something with 2 or more colors then I use Quick Print ( I have a VP 300).  If it a lot of prints you are needing to do then I'd use transfer express or Versatranz ( I personally haven't tried Versatranz, but I will look into this one-since Steven recommended it-its gotta be good!)
Permalink Reply by Eric Datanagan on February 17, 2011 at 9:21am

Hi Everyone,

The order is for 50 pcs, 2 colors, and the size is 11x8.  I'm about to order from Versatranz and the cost is very reasonable but I really would prefer to do the job myself. Previous orders with letters like this have been a nightmare, that's why I'm checking in to see what everyone thinks.  Thanks in advance!

Permalink Reply by John on February 17, 2011 at 9:31am
Don't forget to add the $0.20 per sheet for the EPT transfer.  We used a regular transfer of white text on royal blue shirts without the EPT upgrade and all of the prints allowed the background shirt color to come through a bit so instead of a bright white print it had a blueish tone.

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