hey friends, Dave here with Transfer Express and today
we are talking jumbo gang sheets that's right the most commonly requested feature is finally here
big 12 and a half by 17 and a half gang sheets for our most popular screen printed transfers!
we're going to talk size difference between the standard and jumbo and why it matters then
we'll even get into how you could set your own order up in easy view online designer the profit
building value that you could pack into these larger sheets then we'll even print some shirts
with the heat press behind me right here are you excited because i am so let's get ready to jumbo!
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videos like this one here every single week now that jumbo sheets are here i want to show you just
how much value this new size of gang sheet can bring to you and your business available in our
goof proof elastoprint and hot split ink formulas these new sheets are almost 40 percent larger than
our standard size screen printed transfers giving you the ability to print huge full front prints
with some room left over for maybe inside tags left chest prints or even hat prints but my
favorite feature here is being able to fit two full front or back prints together on one sheet
and really cut your total quantity in half of course before we dive into designing and laying
out our jumbo size sheets i do want to mention that our standard sheet size is still available
in 11 and a quarter by 14 inches for all of our different screen printed transfers jumbo
is just an added option for a surprisingly small increase in price which really helps you pack the
value and print potential into these sheets so let's pop on over to the free easy view online
designer at transferexpress.com and i'll show you how you could set up your own jumbo sized sheets
i absolutely love easy view online designer for its ability to quickly let you customize pre-made
layouts and mock-up apparel for you or your customers but one less known feature is being able
to completely design custom artwork from scratch using the huge catalog of clip art elements and
fonts for today's example let's use the scenario of a customer who owns a bike shop that needs
50 t-shirts with a left chest print a large back print and then even wants to rebrand the apparel
with an inside tag now that's a tall order for a standard sized gang sheet but easy peasy for a
jumbo size sheet first let's set up our workspace here in easy view online designer at the bottom
we'll select screen print and goof proof and that is the default when you enter easy view here
goof proof transfers are our premiere screen printed transfer it looks feels washes and wears
like a traditional screen printed shirt then we'll click here on size and swap over to the jumbo and
we'll also set our orientation to portrait you'll see that the dotted outline changes over to the
larger size 2 with that click now let's find a clipart of a bike that's gonna work for us here
we'll click add clipart and then we'll just search bike in the search bar up top we'll
add this one right here by clicking on it and here it's easily added to our sheet so let's add
a rectangle here from the basic shape section in the add clipart menu as well we can quickly add an
outline to this basic shape using the controls and the edit menu on the left hand side
then we'll change the main fill color to no ink we could add some text let's type palm bay
and swap the text over to averta black as the font you can see how easy it is to do that let's add
more text while we're at it and this one will just be bicycles and we'll choose uh let's say
nexa for this font now that we've got our elements together let's pull one more rectangle and set the
fill color to no ink so it knocks out some areas on our first rectangle using the arrange controls
at the top of the screen we can move the elements on top of each other with ease now once we've
got our general layout here down let's just make sure it's centered by clicking the align controls
and center to center it all up and just like that we've built this completely custom logo
from the ground up who needs illustrator now we'll use this for our large back artwork
so we'll go into object and group it here so we can easily move it around of course
after we've selected we could always ungroup two if we need to go back and change anything
next let's configure those inside tags we'll hit add layout and then go to the dealers only section
at the top and here you can see a whole bunch of tag prints and i like this one so we'll add
this one for our tag print a couple double clicks and we can change the information on this layout
and we'll swap out this a little flag here for a little bicycle gear on the left in the edit menu
here you can see replace clipart which we'll click and then we'll just search here in our clipart
for a gear bam we're all set we'll apply these same principles to create the front left chest
graphic and start grouping the artwork here onto the sheet you could easily duplicate elements out
with just copy and paste commands that you know as shortcuts on your keyboard or you could just go up
here and click duplicate here with two 11 inch wide back graphics we've still got room for four
inside tags a smaller version of that main graphic that we created first and then two of these little
fun left chest graphics so instead of having to order 50 total standard sheets for 50 shirts
we've dropped our total sheets needed down to just 25 with the ability to print two of each graphic
now the last step let's set our garment color to navy and just click here on our ink swatch
to swap all of the artwork over to white ink a couple more clicks and we'll review our details
and enter a quantity and check out now here with our easy prints pricing because we use the artwork
and elements that are included in the easyview online designer we have a total of three dollars
and sixty cents per sheet so not counting the inside tag and the bonus print right in the middle
that smaller version of the large graphic we're effectively at a dollar eighty for two prints on
each shirt talk about saving costs and maximizing your profit now that our transfers have arrived
it is time to print some shirts so here we have the port and company pc150s now i love these 100
ring spun cotton shirts number one because of the removable label and the low down cost they
are just super affordable right around three to four bucks depending on the quantity that you're
buying so before we go back and press let's talk about cost and some profit here for a minute so
with a three dollar blank a buck eighty for both of those graphics we're at about four dollars and
eighty cents for the cost of the garment printed with those two locations what four dollars and
eighty cents is incredibly affordable for a two location print now with the cost times two pricing
structure that's about nine dollars and sixty cents per shirt for 50 quantity that you could
safely charge your customer now i love comparing the pricing to other online printers and bam when
we look at it we are undercutting their price by more than a dollar with a higher quality blank and
you are still making a healthy profit all right value aside let's pop back to our trusty hotronix
16 by 20 auto clam and we're going to print some shirts now we already have it set up for our goof
proof at 365 degrees on the temperature a four to six second press and a medium to firm pressure
now that we're back here let's get this press set up to print we already have our temperature
in time set but i want to swap out this platen for the hp tagalong platen now with the quick
change mechanism on all of these hotronix presses just lift the platen right out and we'll replace
this with the tag along platen and just as easy as it goes out our new platen drops right back in
and we'll lock it back on down and now we're ready to press we'll grab our garment now
with the hotronix autoclam it is not 100 fully threadable right out of the gate but coupled
with a caddy stand or the counter caddy you could absolutely fully thread the shirt onto the platen
now the one thing about the tagalong platinum that i absolutely love too is just easily aligning the
shirts with this shoulder and neck shape you could just trace the shoulder seams down and know that
you are 100 percent fully straight on the platen the best thing about it though is if you reach up
underneath you could pull the inside tag portion of the shirt right on over this extra pad at the
top and i'll just make sure that everything's back down and here you could tear away the tag as well
we're just going to give this a quick pre-press once we're pre-pressed we just want to make sure
that all the moisture and wrinkles are removed from the shirt giving us a nice smooth even
printing surface we'll go ahead and grab our transfers that we have already cut out from
our jumbo sized gang sheet you could just fit so much on there i'd love it so here for the
front side we'll be doing the left chest and we'll be doing the inside tag at the same time
so i'll take the tag and i'll place it down right here onto our garment if you haven't
watched we do have an awesome video on tons of different relabeling methods that you could do
and even a video on this tag along platinum that we'll have linked with this video as
well so this ride bikes we're going to place in a left chest now for a left chest placement i love
the easiest way to grab where the shoulder seam meets the collar trace a line directly straight
down so you know that you're not going to have that dreaded armpit print and we're going to go
about four fingers down from the collar once we're set on our placement we'll go ahead and
press now goof proof is a hot peel so we'll peel the carrier away immediately when the press opens
we'll do the tag first and we'll do the left chest now once our shirt is all printed we'll
go ahead and just pull it right on off the press i'm just going to spin it around and load it
right back onto the press again now that we're all aligned on the platen we'll go ahead and
give this back a pre-press as well here we'll take the back graphic and since our collar is
kind of wedged down here we could obviously pull it up and see where we're gonna go i'm gonna go
about four or five fingers down to the top of the graphic kind of just on the bottom side
of these sleeves so it fits right in between the shoulder blades on the back of the shirt
once we're ready to go we'll go ahead and lock the press down and print our back side
peel reveals that beautiful back print with the goof proof screen printed transfer now
once we're all pressed we'll go ahead and just pull our t-shirt off the platen and
there's our beautiful back print nice and big between those shoulder blades and then
on the front side we also have that left chest and the inside tag as well look at that beautiful
printed t-shirt only 49 more to go on this order i hope you find the value in our jumbo gang sheets
that's going to help your t-shirt business grow and bring in more profit for you we are pushing
out new videos like this one every single week here on the transfer express youtube channel so if
you're not already subscribed what are you waiting for as always we're happy to help in any way we
can for the apparel decorating community if you need to reach us you could always comment below
call or email us at info transferexpress.com but until next time i'm dave happy pressing