Hey! Dave here with Transfer Express, today we're going to be covering the HP Tag A Long platen. So,
not only are we going to be covering just the value that this adds to your heat printing
business with printing your tags and the front of your t-shirt at the same time but also this
platen makes it incredibly efficient to print large run jobs and get your t-shirts any kind of
apparel hoodies tank tops nice and registered and aligned every time just saving you so much time
when you're printing larger runs the tag long is a solution to fit for any full size hotronix heat
press this covers both the hotronix and the max line it really works well if you have one of our
caddies or our counter caddy stands that make the platen fully threadable it really just unleashes
the power of this platen here on the back side this does have the quick change mechanism to
lock into the presses making it really super easy to swap out but once you put this in your press
i don't think you're going to want to be removing it the only downside is you take a full 16 by 20
print area and reduce it to a 15 by 16. so you are reducing a little bit of your capabilities but for
the for the value of actually being able to easily align your shirts every time with this kind of
neck shape and seeing where your collar fits right along this it really saves time and i love having
it on our hotronix auto clamp so we'll go ahead and swap it in there and i'll show you exactly how
it works the quick change system is super easy for all of our hotronix presses it's just this simple
lever on the right side underneath your platen go ahead and open it up and the current platen
just lifts straight out and all you have to do is bring in your tag along get it right on in there
align it into the hole and lock the lever on the right hand side underneath the platen back down
and that's it it's installed now that we've got our hp tag along platen installed on our full-size
16 by 20 hotronix auto clamp the press is heating up before we put any garments on this i want
to show you how you can maximize your branding potential by putting inside tag prints on your
gang sheets so let's head on over to easy view designer and i'll show you exactly how it's done
so now that we're in easy view design center we've got our center chest full front artwork already
designed it's a two color with gold and white inks printing all you have to do to add your shirt tag
now is just go up to the left hand side menu click add layout at the top left here you'll see dealer
only go ahead and click right there on shirt tags and look at how many pre-made inside tag designs
we have available you can customize these to your heart's content with your own company name
the sizing information the actual fabric that the garment is being printed on and the country
of origin some of them even have these awesome little icons that make it look super professional
choose the one that you want we like this one here today the qtg5 layout and you can always just
search by these layouts at that top search bar when you're in the layout menu we'll go ahead and
get this placed onto our gank sheet for today's example let's use leo's apparel as the name
and we'll change this one to large and keep it made in the usa
all you have to do is duplicate this out and fill the bottom of this gang sheet with all this empty
space and it looks like we're going to be able to fit 10 labels on here per one shirt print
we could go back through and change the sizing and the fabric for your specific garment needs
so obviously if you're just printing these shirts you are getting so much added branding
power even down the road from just this single gang sheet that your customer is already paying
for so much value packed into one let's get this printed and i'll show you how it works now we've
got our gang sheet here as you can see all of our tags right here at the bottom so we'll go ahead
and just cut out our center chest artwork to make sure that it's all set for printing you could do
this for as many as you want all at once or just do them as you go for larger runs i always like
cutting them all out at once so i can apply all at the same time and knock it all out nice and easy
now that we've got our tag cut out and we have our center chest artwork cut out let's head back to
the tagalong platen and our hotronix auto clam and i'll show you how easy it is to have these applied
now that we've got our shirt we're going to go ahead and get it loaded onto the
hp tagalong platen you do this like you thread any regular t-shirt
it just makes it super easy as you can see already just how perfectly lined up this shirt is so
because we want to print the inside tag at the same time just go ahead and reach underneath and
pull the garment back side right on pull this down to make sure you have a nice clean clear area to
print so go ahead and tear away the label here to get it out of the way before we print our label
so now that we've got everything aligned and ready to print we'll go ahead and pre-press our garment
like we do on every single print for three to five seconds to remove any moisture and wrinkles
now let's go ahead and grab our center chest print we'll go ahead and put this down right
perfectly aligned on the front of the shirt and we'll grab our inside
tag we'll go ahead and place right here on the inside neck
once those are placed and ready to go we'll go ahead and press this
at our regular goof proof application
our goof proof is a hot peel so we'll go ahead and peel these off immediately for our tag and
for our full front
just as easy as it goes on it comes off and we'll remove the shirt from the platen
we showed you how easy it is to print your shirt and your tag at the same time on just a regular
t-shirt or a long sleeve but we know that's not all that you're going to be pressing so i want to
show you how it works just for alignment and easy thread ability switching from the front to back
on a wide range of apparel so for a zip hoodie we still wouldn't recommend printing with the seam
on the center without raising the print surface so i want to show you how easy it prints to the back
now here you can see just lining up the seams and the back of the shirt here you can check your
seams down the side but just like that it's super easy ready to print and easy to remove with the
quick slip pad protector we've been asked a lot of questions about hoodies and hoodies will not work
for being able to print the tag because you can't get the hood all the way up through there however
with a smaller platen size you may be able to get the pocket seam off of the platen and the collar
seams as well off the platen but look how easy that is to line up if you wanted to make sure that
your hood didn't get any scorch marks if you're working with a poly hoodie you'd also just make
sure that it's not on the platen up here and it's a-okay to press even something like this light
windbreaker style could also work on the platen go ahead and just thread it on like we normally would
and where you would normally have to worry about this zipper being on the collar you go ahead and
just shove it down into the hole and get it out of the way and now you have an awesome
clear free space for your center chest with any of the zipper clearly away from any platen you don't
have to worry about it messing with your pressure now this even makes printing polos a little bit
easier too now where you won't be able to pull up the back inside as you can see it's a little
tight with the extra collar you're going to have some issues there but what you can do is while
you're printing these you go ahead and get this on here and where you would traditionally have issues
with a square pallet now you have a little bit more room to fit one of our mouse pads now this
is cut to a print size for a left chest easily fit right under where that print area would be pressed
and all set you could easily remove the print pad and you could easily remove the polo as well
and just like that super easy to add the front print and the inside tag print at the same exact
time now this thing for 375 bucks will pay for itself in just your time printing alone over the
course of just a couple orders depending on your order size so it is really really really valuable
and at quite an affordable price now the tagalong platen is a patented design so you're not going to
find many variations out there of something that's going to work with your heat press again this only
works with the quick change capable presses like the hotronix or max lines or even the fusions
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