Hey friends, Dave here with Transfer Express and today, we are talking about the easiest way to
increase the value of any printed t-shirt: That's right, multiple print locations!
Not only do multiple print locations add to the look of your printed shirt, but it could
also lead to a higher retail price tag for just a tiny bit more work on your end. Now,
since it's springtime we're going to be using some baseball spirit wear and fan gear as our example
here today- but any market niche or apparel style could benefit from these additional locations
and using screen printed transfer gang sheets it's barely going to raise your print cost at all
are you ready to take your apparel and your profits to the next level let's get right to it
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videos like this one every single week now for baseball or any sport spirit wear is an awesome
opportunity to sell merchandise for any team from the big leagues to the little leagues now
with school little league and community sports you also have the opportunity to do some customization
for moms dads and family members who want to show their team pride now this customization
could be incredibly profitable and by adding that personalization you could boost the retail price
of the printed shirt selling and decorating on-site at games or tournaments could also
be a great opportunity to bring in all that extra revenue too for our example today we're going to
be printing on some raglan tees for our baseball gear now these are the horton company core
blend line it's the rs an incredibly affordable option for a three-quarter sleeve raglan with a
surprisingly awesome quality and finish to it now we have the navy and white colorway to match the
navy and white of the team that we're going to be printing for but portent company offers more than
seven different colorways including some awesome heather styles on this as well once we know what
we're going to be printing on it's time to get our designs set up on a gang sheet to print now we're
going to be using our goof proof screen printed transfers which are just packed with tons of value
not only are they real deal screen printed plastisol inks that wash wear and feel like a
real screen printed shirt but they are ordered by the sheet so whatever you could fit on the sheet
ships for the same price and with our new jumbo size you could pack even more profit power onto
them let's head on over to transferexpress.com and we will get started here in the easy view online
designer you could upload your own designs in almost any file format you could design your own
right here with clipart text and all the effect controls or use one of the thousands of pre-made
customizable layouts so let's just click on over to layout to use one of the pre-made layouts
and we'll search here for baseball using the categories that you see on this left hand side
you could also use the search bar at the top too so let's start with this layout here qba 336
we'll just swap the team name out to broncos and then do some simple ink color changes to make this
ready for our project you can see size that 11 inches wide it's taking up a good bit of space
here on our standard sized gang sheet you could see with this dotted line on our artboard but
clicking on the size options down at the bottom left of the screen allows us to select jumbo the
larger 12 and a half by 17 and a half sheets now we've got a lot more real estate for our sheet
we could fill this entire sheet with a different version for the same team because it's always nice
to have do different styles right it helps sell more spirit where that's for sure so we could
easily design a logo using some clip art of say like this bronco here and then just some simple
clean and classic text throw this little palm tree underneath and put the league information in red
now to make this easy easy view online designer will actually show you the ink colors that you
have in use at the bottom of the ink selection panel so you don't have to scroll or guess to
find the colors that you already have on the sheet now that we've got two full fronts on our sheet
let's add some back prints and some jersey style branded tags for that lower left front placement
now we could use layout qba 339 and customize it for our baseball tournament here recoloring and
swapping some of the clip art and text out and then we could use shirt tag layout qtg 13 as the
starting point for our apparel company where we'll swap in their information and some logos for them
using text and clipart we are just ready to roll now we can easily duplicate out items to
the sheet and bam now we have two full shirts with a front and back print as well as that
athletic style branded print now this is what we are talking about adding value a gang sheet here
is all set up with all of our artwork grouped all on one page with just a few clicks we could set
our quantity review our details and check out and before we check out it's worth a note that
at 24 quantity and with this two color goof proof screen print we're just over six dollars per sheet
bringing the total cost of printing for each one of these shirts to just three dollars and 20 cents
or when you divide it by those print locations it's just over a buck per print talk about profits
now once our transfers arrive we are ready to get printing all we have to do is cut the items out
from our gang sheets and organize them for each shirt now printing them is just as easy if not
easier than designing and setting up your gang sheets so let's pop on back to our heat press and
print some shirts now that we're back here at our hotronix 16x20 auto open clam shell press we'll
make sure that we're all set up to print our goof proof screen printed transfers we'll just make
sure that our temperature is set to 365 degrees that we have a four to six second application time
we're right in the middle f5 and our dual stage timer is at five as well of course we'll want to
pre-press to remove any moisture from our garment first step is going to be we're going to print our
fronts now we already have everything all cut out so we don't have to worry about our graphics we
already have them organized we're just going to go ahead and load our shirt onto the heat press i'm
just going to pull it all the way down and ensure that we're nice and centered and then roll it back
so we're keeping the majority of the collar and all those seams off of the printing area just
a little bit here on the corners is going to be a okay and it shouldn't interfere with our pressure
all too much but once we're happy with that we'll just go ahead and hold this down for
four maybe five seconds just removing any of that moisture from that cotton content
once we're ready to go we'll go ahead and grab our first print now this is just the center
chest graphic so we'll go ahead and center it on up right here onto our shirt and we're going to
be about three fingers down from the collar so i could just move this up just a tiny bit more
and seeing where the ink starts on the transfer carrier is right about where that
first line is on the grid and we're exactly at three fingers down from the collar just another
assessment to make sure that we are lined up nice and straight to the sides of the platen
and it looks like we are all set so go ahead and just print this
four to six seconds for goof proof and a hot peel makes this so super quick
once the press opens we'll peel the transfer carrier away immediately and there you have
it a screen printed shirt next up after we have our front printed we're going to do this
front print for that branding so what i'm going to do is i'm going to pull this on down and so
we don't have to cover our print just get it off of the platen and i'm actually going to rotate
this down until we get to this crease where the seam is right underneath the armpit and i want
to align this transfer right close to that side so i'm just going to go ahead and line this down kind
of see it up in there and about a quarter inch to a half inch away from this bottom seam here
now this bottom seam is very flat on this garment i'm not worried about it affecting pressure at
all even though we are printing close up to it so we'll go ahead and just print this one right here
that was the same application with a hot peel and there you have it awesome little jersey tag right
down there at the bottom now that we are all set with our front print we'll just go ahead and pull
this off and we're going to do that back print for the tournament that we designed as well so
right up here load it back on exactly like how we did it that first time ensuring we're all the way
on so we can see how centered we are and make sure that everything looks good down on the body of the
shirt as well not just on the shoulders so we'll roll this off again to get the collar off and a
lot of these seams off the printing area we might even have to go a little bit more on top of this
because i don't want that back print getting down too far i'm going to grab this final print that
we're going to put on the shirt for the carolina classic now one trick if you wanted to save time
with your cutting and it's not necessarily even is you can just hold this up to the light
and you can see where the ink actually is so we'll see that the ink lines up together
and then just crease the transfer at the top and bottom so now we have a center line on our print
we'll go ahead and put that down right here squared up on the center of our shirt we're
going to do this one just another three fingers down from the collar so we have to pull this one
up a little bit more because our three fingers is about right there so there you go once we
are happy with the placement we'll go ahead and press this one just like we did after a pre-press
our final hot peel is going to give us our back screen print right there on our shirt once we are
all done printing here we're just going to take our shirt off the press and there you have it
a beautiful screen print on the back and over on the front side we've got that center chest
print as well and even that bottom jersey hit here on the raglan making this look super pro
and retail ready but when we talk about retail ready there's one more step that we should add
on to it and that of course is putting a hang tag on our shirt and we have both versions here that
we printed on our gank sheet both with those lower left placements and the center chest but this is
the final step to making this a retail ready shirt we have our hang tag right here matching that logo
on the bottom of the shirt we'll grab our hang tag gun you can buy these off amazon for super cheap
and then we'll just go ahead and hang tag it one last aspect to really take this one over the top
is to combine it say with some printed headwear and just use a rubber band to put it all together
once we're happy with that all we do is just group it together with our hat right here
take our rubber band loop it all around and there you go you've just increased the value even more
with a t-shirt a hat all bundled together for say what 35 or 40 bucks and you are just rolling
in the profit retail are you printing merch fan gear or spirit wear for any teams this year let
us know if you have your own tips and tricks or even pricing strategies or anything down
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out new videos like this one every single week but until next time i'm dave happy pressing