Hi All
I'm just new to this forum so hello to you all, I have read some threads and found them very useful, I'm in Melbourne Australia and currently run a DTG business and want to add Phone covers to our product list, I have been researching vacuum machines now for about 2 months. As I read through the threads everyone seems to have the same questions "do you go with cheaper paper transfers and cheaper machines, or go with the film version and buy the Sublideck type machine".
I have found two suppliers in China, one that sells the mini subs which price wise is exactly the same as one of you guys posted here. The other is a 1 case at time film version same as sublideck, price wise we are looking at $488 US for the mini sub
and $2600US for the film version. The reason I'm swaying to the film version is that I'm really only interested in printing phone covers, and the time to prepare the cover and print it is substantially less than with the mini sub, I will be selling these through an ecommerce site, and targeting the custom personalized market. Saying that I have seen film printed with the mini sub at a show here a couple of weeks ago, all they did was put the mould in the sub and then just placed the film on top, the heat from the top and bottom of the plate melted the film slowly into place and then he lowered the the silicon sheet and pressed it for 8 mins. The result was fantastic. So can someone give me their opinion on this, I really want to stick to film, and if the mini sub can produce good quality with a minimum of fuss then I would look at that, otherwise I would go for the film draw version machine that you don't have to worry about placement, and it only takes 2 mins to cook. Hope someone can throw some more light on the matter.
Also the film, seems to be hard to find, there is the gold back type and also there is a transparent type which they tell me comes from Korea, can someone point me in the right direction on where to get these films
Thanks
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