Decorating Methods Up Top
My career started in the imprinted sportswear industry selling both screen-print and heat-transfer equipment for embellishing caps.
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Digital Decorating: Process + Techniques
The True Cost of Digital Printing
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Cost Analysis – Small Shop
It is impossible to set any kind of logical prices without understanding what something costs to produce. So, the first big question has to be: what does it cost to run your business and how does that translate into the cost of generating products?
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The Cost of a Complete Sublimation Job
Using the information from the Cost Analysis Sheet combined with the some production data, you can now factor in additional factors in order to get an even more realistic view of the total costs to produce a job from beginning to end.
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Efficiencies of Multiple Piece Runs
As you run larger orders you benefit from considerably less downtime in regards to pre- and post-production activities. The charts below are simply meant for making some head-to-head comparisons to see the “effect” of increased efficiency. In reality, every job is different in terms of time and complexity, etc., so this should not be considered an exact calculation, rather a tool to see how its possible to have lower prices for larger orders. But just as important, you should observe that every setup reaches a point where the cost-savings for increased volume ends. Thus, you cannot endlessly provide discounts as job size increases.
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Retail Price Calculations
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Try Creating Multiple Variations on a Theme When Designing for the Holidays
The end of the year is a great time for garment decorating. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas–all are the perfect reason for creating fun, festive designs for printing, and with dye sublimation, in particular, sales opportunities abound.
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Designing for DTF Transfers
Direct-to-film (DTF) transfers provide a new, fast-growing garment-decoration method that’s ideal for designing layouts for sports apparel. From team and practice uniforms to fan wear, DTF transfers allow you to easily and inexpensively incorporate full color into layouts.
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