Oh superhot fire as you guys could see there is no DTG printer there's no screen printing machines
none of that essentially we're printing t-shirts out of a garage and the beauty about using heat
transfer vinyl and a heat press for this method is the fact that you could do this virtually anywhere
whether it's a garage setup that you want to set up whether it's a bedroom whether it's the living
room or even in your bathroom you can literally set up shops anywhere and the beauty about heat
transfer printing and heat vinyl is the fact that the quality here guys is literally comparable to
screen printing it feels really nice it allows it's very durable and more importantly it's super
cost effective so if you're looking to start a brand or perhaps go on a print-on-demand model
for your own brand heat transfer printing and the heat press like this is going to be the key
to your scalability and quickness to market so in this video we're gonna go into all of
those details and we're gonna jump into everything that you need to know to actually start a printing
business out of your garage or out of your house all right so we're gonna get started with a very
important question that I know a lot of you guys have and it's an important question that always
comes up is how much does a set-up cost all right as you guys can see we have a heat press we have
the cutter we have the materials and of course we have a laptop you're gonna need to have some
technology so we'll start with the heat press alright the heat press is gonna be the first
thing that we jump into for these details now the one that we got was a Signature Series by heat
press nation and he pressed nation is essentially the largest online seller of heat press materials
as well as heat presses and all the things that you guys need to start a home-based business
now I ended up buying this machine from them all right so I ended up purchasing it myself this one
was $700 and of course you can get started with a lot cheaper ones there's some that as low as 300
bucks and there's some that go to thousands so the main difference between the different price points
is the fact that the higher end you go the more efficient is going to be for your production so if
you're running a professional set up like if you guys are printing from if your actual print shop
you probably want to consider more the high-end ones because they have a lot of key features that
the lower end price points doesn't have now the reason that I went with this one in particular
the Signature Series is because it's got the timer it's got this slide-out drawer and it's got
a couple of other cool little features that the higher end ones have without breaking that budget
and when it came to the vinyl cutter we ended up going with the expert 2lx which allows you
to print not only just vinyl but it also allows you to cut and plot so that means you can make
stickers you can make stencils and literally you can use this as a multi-purpose tool and this one
was about five hundred bucks so in total guys just so you know that I'm not playing around it was
1379 alright 1379 it included a bunch of different equipment up here the heat press all these tools
that we actually needed to get started so 1379 is what you guys would need for this setup which
allows you to start printing t-shirts and other products immediately so it's a little bit more
than a stimulus check but why don't you stimulate your business stimulate your potential and instead
of just buying a TV or a tablet or something else that I probably could have picked up we decided
to invest back into things that will allow us to make products quicker allow us to actually
test out new ideas and move our business forward in a way that we weren't planning to this year
we have to always make adjustments this is a great investment that will last you for years and it has
a very positive return on that investment which we will be jumping into an entire series that will
actually go through a lot of these different steps to help you maximize that business to help you
learn how to print better to help you learn how to sell we're diving into a cool series this month
so this is the first part of it and why don't we get started with out of this thing actually works
as you see here we have the equipment all set up for you guys ready to show you guys exactly how
to use it but like with anything new you need to learn how to use it and we actually created a blog
post I'll be a link down the description below that'll show you all the headaches that I went
through so you don't have to go through them so we have the plotter and heat press here and what
we're about to do now is actually print out the back of the design for you guys to see how it
all works and like a lot of these actual heat transfer vinyls you actually have to put them
reversed you have to reverse the artwork as well as these machines and especially this setup only
works with vector art like a lot of these plotters only work with vector art because you're literally
having to program the Machine and telling it where to cut the actual font the design outs so keep
that in mind only works with vector art Adobe illustrators our friend so there's a few videos
that John has done on Adobe Illustrator that are all also will be linked down below so you guys
can like learn how to convert images into vector art and so you can do this yourself so and then
you'll see here going on over here right now it's actually plotting it it's cutting it out there's
a little blade there that's literally etching the heat transfer vinyl but not going too deep though
that's other thing too is if you if you get this setting wrong on that little machine head of there
you'll cut too deep and we're basically almost done so then what are you doing now so now I'm
just moving the the sheet forward so I can use a little tool today supply to cut the heat transfer
vinyl so now we got to weed it so as you can see if you look at the back you can kind of see here
Oh am i hard to see on camera we'll have to weed it now you're literally all you're doing is taking
off the material not good I want to apply the shirt so just keep in mind if you leave anything
on this clear material it's going to be applied to the shirt or material you're printing on you don't
want to that you won't have that rule so you're gonna have a bad day so let's get all the stuff
that you don't want on there it's cool because this material is made by a company called Caesar
and they actually have a really good mutation with heat transfer vinyl that's easy to use and
you don't have to actually do much as far as like just weed it and apply the correct temperature and
pressure one part is having design ideas that you want to print on the next part is in choosing the
supplies and the materials and the products that you'd want to print on now I highly recommend
that you choose products that are gonna be in demand in the market and I'm wearing this face
best right now as a as an example of a product that I see being super highly requested by brands
and businesses and individuals all over the world for the next few years to come and the reason I'm
showing you guys this one in particular is because we actually sourced for quality face masks that as
an entrepreneur or as a viewer of this channel if you've ever wanted to support you could literally
buy from our website that's now live it's called street wear apparel calm and the reason that we're
plugging these ones in is the fact that these are fully adjustable you could actually stretch
the size of the band so it doesn't irritate your your ears and we actually have been test printing
on these for the last few weeks and they've been doing amazing it's a double filter antimicrobial
design which allows up to 30 washes to remain and keep you safe now of course CDC disclaimer these
are not to be used for any medical purposes but no really guys the reason I'm saying that is because
if you've ever wanted to support the channel you could purchase face masks at a wholesale
price with no license we're also expanding the product lines to include t-shirts so this was a
t-shirt by a guy in our community now the goal of this site and of this business model is to
put designers and entrepreneurs that are creating quality products for people that are viewing in a
part of the community so it's by us for us right so this t-shirt in particular has the split hems
at the bottom it's actually designed to be a long teeth fits really nicely and it prints really well
so if you guys are interested in this this will be available for a limited time on the website
and you guys can just shop there if you feel like support in the channel if not honestly just choose
banks that are gonna fit with your brand right so there's a lot of different prints of blank
suppliers from Bella canvas to many others that I'll actually link in the description down below
this video as well guys the key is to if you're gonna be printing for your own brand consider
buying quality products to really set yourself apart because by doing something like print on
demand here you're gonna be able to have really good margins and if you use a quality product you
can increase those margins instead of having to sell a t-shirt for 20 bucks because it's a cheap
tee you can you know increase that to 35 or 40 if you use certain styles and it's the reason that we
started the website and the distribution business is because we want to bring quality products that
will help you maximize your return on investment so enough of that let's jump into how this
actually is printed I already have this all set up for you guys so you can see like exec how are you
do but every single heat transfer when you buy has certain directions as well as the material working
with so you have to test especially when it comes to providing a product for a customer online so if
you're fulfilling orders and you get to design the print wrong or the pressure wrong or use the wrong
vinyl for the material using you could have a bad day you don't want to return right so you want to
make sure you get this right the first time and there you go overseas so let's get that there oh
and also by the way always make sure whenever you're working especially in a little garage
like this order your bathroom wherever you're at I always keep a fire extinguisher on hand you
never know when you need it so I've already had to use it once not today but in the past and so just
make sure you you're you better safe than sorry so we're going to do now is apply some pressure
and iron the turf just for a few seconds just to have a nice flat surface five seconds is good and
then this thing is hot so you got to be careful with this and now we're going to apply our design
six inches from there perfect
what's that paper so this is actually not paper if you're wondering if you're looking
out on the video and you're like what the heck is he doing this is actually copper it's it's
copper lined it allows the the hot iron not to burn all your actual fabric cuz you don't want
to actually burn directly with 300 degrees of temperature on on some cotton because you'll
burn through it or if it's like a poly viscous material you don't want to do that you'll have
a bad day and do that now wait for 15 seconds put it to the side there cuz I think it's hot
in this material we're using you peel when it's hot there's some that you have to peel cold but
this one actually allows you to do both it tells you you can peel hot or cold pulled it out boom
and there she goes so there you have it guys as you can see heat transfer vinyl is a great
method for you to quickly make the products that you envision with the designs that you
have in mind whether it be face masks whether it be t-shirts this process allows you to bring
the production in-house and it cuts out the middleman so it also increases your profit
margins as long as you are doing it efficiently so more importantly don't try to do this process
if you guys are printing a couple hundred shirts with multiple colors and a variation
of designs heat transfer vinyls is better if you're doing a couple dozen at a time if
you're doing some quick strikes or if you're doing an on demand model this will allow you
to be profitable in the long run as the heat transfer equipment is an investment that you
have to make in your business so make sure that you stay subscribed and that you guys tune in
to future episodes of the from home series that we're launching on this channel we'll
be linking it right up above on this video as well as in the description down below and as we
mentioned throughout the video everything that we talked about in this video is going to be
linked in the description down below so what I want you guys to do is tag me and any products
that you guys have that you either created or that you're going to make on Instagram and we'll
start featuring these products throughout our channel and throughout our community so
I look forward to seeing you guys in the next video and connecting you with you real soon you