Why Use Transfers?
Why would you want to print transfers that require extra materials (the paper), extra
labor (the transfer application process), and more equipment (a heat transfer press) when
you can print directly on the garment? There are several situations where plastisol
transfers are actually more efficient, economical, and profitable than direct printing. |
For example, suppose you have a contract to provide decorated T-shirts for a
once-a-year event but you have no way of knowing in advance how many shirts will be sold.
If you prints too few shirts, you will unnecessarily limit your sales. If you prints too
many shirts you'll take an expensive loss on the unsold shirts. However, if you print the
design on transfers, you can take the transfers, a transfer press, and a stock of blank
shirts to the event and decorate the shirts to order. At the end of the day you have some
unsold blank shirts, which you can put back in stock to sell another day, and some surplus
transfers, which only cost you a few cents each so you can afford to throw them away.
Sales are increased and waste is reduced. |
Plastisol heat transfers may also be the most profitable decorating method when you
have to reprint a design frequently, but in small quantities. Let's assume that you have a
design that you print four or five times a year, but each order is for a small quantity of
shirts. The labor involved in setting up the press each time will significantly increase
the cost of the job. If you print an entire years supply of transfers in one press run,
you can store them, then quickly and inexpensively apply them to blank garments as each
order comes in. Job costs are considerably reduced and the shirts can be decorated in
minutes. |
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It’s really no use explaining how presentations come out without seeing it for yourself, so it pains me that there’s currently no way to embed the examples that are showcased on the Prezi website. Instead, you will need to jump to examples in another tab or window, but please do it: good examples are ‘AIESEC’ and ‘Technical Investigation ICYA’. |
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