Hey Friends, Dave here with transfer express, and, today we are going to cover the advantages of
using custom screen printed transfers for printing on toddler and baby apparel. Now, regardless of if
you're custom printing or running your own etsy shop it's safe to say that youth toddler and baby
items are quite popular and give any decorator a healthy profit margin. now, for this video we're
going to dive into those profit margins and we're going to talk about how you can minimize your
print costs to maximize your profit! we'll inspire some fun creative ideas just like these in front
of me here and those fun print placements, then we'll even show off some tips and tricks into
how we could easily use our heat press (just like this one)to decorate those tricky to print
tiny little locations that are close to buttons or seams. so are you ready? let's get into it!
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this one on our youtube channel every single week first up let's talk about print cost for
these examples that we have laid out here today these are all printed using our screen printed
transfers or even our digital transfers all of our screen printed transfers like goof proof hot split
puff inks or even our glitter transfers are exclusively available on what we call gang sheets
now gang sheets are the grouping of the same or different artwork all onto one sheet which
is going to drop the print cost of each image and it drops it down so much that you could maximize
your profit now you always pay for the full sheet not the amount of inks used so use as much space
on the sheet as you want now gang sheets really come in for the win here on the toddler youth and
baby apparel because of the smaller sizing of the artwork as you can see on a sheet like this one
right here we've got tons of different artwork all nested nice and neat here on one sheet for this
one we have a total of 11 images which at 12 sheet quantity and one color pricing for our goof proof
the price of each one of these prints drops down to just 45 cents all sized for printing on bibs
onesies pajamas t-shirts and pretty much anything else that you could fit
under your heat press now if you are thinking i don't know how to use photoshop or illustrator to
arrange artwork like that onto a page no worries we have our completely free easy view online
designer over at transferexpress.com not only did we arrange all of the artwork that we had for our
gang sheet in there but every element on the sheet was made from one of the thousands of customizable
layouts clip art or fonts that you could use so if you want to learn more about easy view online
designer and gang sheets we've got some additional content linked right up here and resources linked
in the description below now let's take a peek at some of these creative printed
items this first example that we're going to go over today is just a sweet little toddler dress
decorated with our glitter transfers in the blue color now on this one the level up on a left chest
for the little gamer in your lives and little space invaders or centipedes here on the sleeve
and then of course if you turn it over right on the non-functional flap on the rear end it does
say game over this little dress here decorated with trendy puff inks and different elements
from the gang sheet with a nice raised texture and pattern here giving you an awesome awesome little
dress again but with maximized printing area of course not just apparel but bibs and burp cloths
are super popular and very easy to print as well this one right here for the dads the late night
drinking buddy next up this little romper jumper with a nice print area here and these little uh
buttons just come right off for easy on and off making this a super popular cute style for babies
and also really easy to heat print when you can get those buttons out of the way now one really
really awesome cool thing that you could do with screen printed transfers is also print
on these stuffed animals now the stuffed animals are made specifically for embroidery or decoration
so the padding inside is pretty much just a pillow a little zipper pulls it out and
allows you to hoop it for your embroidery machine or put it back onto your heat press now here more
of a traditional onesie this is the future men are cardinals football player for maybe the football
coach or somebody who went through that mentor system or is from that city now it's also super
affordable to print this and ultra customizable so you can make this for any team or city or school
the sky is the limit the next item that i want to talk about is this awesome little sleeper with uh
the nice pattern on the edges and a full color ultra color soft print my favorite thing here on
the table is this nice little dress of course with a unique print location not in that center chest
area but on that lower side it is using our pearl prints as well so it has an awesome little glimmer
shine in the ink that's not overbearing and it's a little bit toned down from say our glitter prints
but one step up in that reflectiveness over the metallic ink colors that are available in goof
proof all of these items are super adorable and super profitable they just look fantastic
but i want to show you some tricks for heat pressing these items on your heat press to avoid
any frustration and ruined garments believe me when i say that these plastic buttons are
heat sensitive they will melt into your heat press so let's avoid that and i'll show you how
so we have our artwork here now we do have installed on our 16x20 hotronix autoclam
the tagalong platen and just another use if you do have one of these tag along platens
while it is awesome to print the inside tag at the same time that you're printing the front of
the t-shirt you could also easily do sleeves or inside tags by themselves and just bring them up
using this pad only now we could check our artwork and it is so close to fitting but it wouldn't fit
so when we are printing anything like we're going to be printing our onesie here today we have a
lot of seams that are quite thick as well as some of these little metal snaps on the top and bottom
now while these will not melt they will interfere with the pressure and not give you a good print
we want to make sure we have a nice firm even pressure and heat getting to our printing area
with none of those seams or buttons getting in the way what you could essentially do here
is just lay this over this tiny little pad where we would be normally printing our t-shirt and lay
your graphic there but we're just a little too big for that here now another way that you could
do it is by using a mouse pad and any regular platen which is what i'm going to show you today
now the mouse pads that we sell are just these blank white polyester and you commonly see these
used for sublimation at only three bucks a piece or whatever they're super easy to
cut down and you're not wasting too much money if you're only going to use this size once so
what we're going to do is just take this and fit it right inside our onesie right here
we're going to want to make sure that we stay away from any collars seams or anything else
like that and make sure that those are off of our printing area i just stuff the tag back in there
you can see our mouse pad on the inside raises that print area so that all these seams and
everything will be farther down on the platen where the upper platen is going to be contacting
that giving us a nice firm pressure right in that area now when you're pre-pressing it's always
great to check pressure now that we've raised the printing area it's going to be a little tight but
as we're removing that moisture we can see that we'll just back the pressure off a little bit
put it back on it locks down with a six or five which is right in our medium to firm pressure
range that we're looking for for our goof proof transfers what we're going to be printing today
we'll take our goof proof transfer on our pre-pressed garment lay it down right in the
middle there and we'll press this for four to six seconds at 365 degrees so let's give it a press
our goof proof is a hot peel so as soon as the press opens go ahead and peel the carrier paper
away immediately and there you have it now if you did want to print then on the other side a little
something on the bottom or the back just repeat the same exact steps and you could get the same
exact results on the back side here now say uh you do have some specialty platens like the round bag
plate for printing on gym bags or any duffel bags this would work fine as well just swapping out the
platen especially with the quick change mechanism for any of the hotronix presses the same if you're
doing something a little bit larger using the 8 by 10 and being able to reduce that printing area
to get any seams or buttons out of the way say if we're doing one of those larger pajama sets for a
toddler who's three or four years old easy as that you could print onesies with outstanding results
where it looks feels washes and wears like it's screen printed really doesn't get
any easier than this and that's all we've got for today's video if you think we missed anything
or if you have tips and tricks of your own just let us know in the comments section below we are
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