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Have you ever had customers who wanted to
get t shirts printed for a special occasion, only to be shut down by the costs
that a t shirt screen printer has to charge for setup?
Have you ever had to have your customers
radically adjust their t shirt artwork in order to make it a limited number of
colors in order to keep the shirts
affordable?
Have you ever lost a customer because you
couldn’t fulfill their custom printing needs?
If you answered “yes” to any or all of
these questions, then you may be the perfect candidate to add direct to garment
printing to your apparel decorating business.
Here’s the scoop!
Everyone
in this industry finds themselves taking
on more and more things than ever before. Little league baseball, soccer, cheerleading,
Relay for Life, Cancer walks, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the list goes on and
on. Every one of these demands some sort
of customized garments – no matter how large or small. With traditional screen printing, the
customer has always had to make a decision between number of colors and
pricing. Screen printers generally
charge so much per color for setup and again for printing as well as a sliding
scale based on the number of shirts ordered. The long and short of it is, the
more colors and the less shirts needed, the more dearly one can expect to
pay. Enter digital t shirt printing with
a direct to garment printer.
With a direct to garment printer, number
of colors is no longer an issue. The
artist is free to design without constraints and not have to worry about limited
colors. It will also open up the range
of shirt sizes that can be printed without additional charges for setup. This means you can offer your customers
shirts that have art proportioned to the size of the shirt for no extra
fee.
Another benefit of a direct to garment
printer is that there is no need for an experienced employee who knows how to
color separate, burn and reclaim screens as well as register colors. Anyone who can consistently operate a
graphics program and regular desktop printer can be trained to operate a digital
t shirt printer.
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