AdamB
13-08-2010, 12:24 PM
So, I thought that my pals in the Forum could give me their opinions on something?
I have been looking at various ways to ‘expand’ my hobby/business from mugs and printable items to a whole new range of sublimation gifts (you may have seen my previous post(s) on DTG printers.
Having the set up to do mugs, I am already half way there to producing ceramic stuff and I just need a press that I will be getting with my new set up – this being the subject.
I have been busy reading and watching many posts and videos on (to be honest) nearly everything and really like the Chromablast system to be able to print my t-shirts. It looks vibrant and reduces the ‘normal film’ that is given with normal methods.
I am also going to purchase a decent vinyl cutter to allow me to do some designs in vinyl that will also go onto dark material.
The problem is that by buying the chromablast system I am limiting myself (as far as I believe) to what I do. The ‘special’ set up is designed to be used on 100% cotton so no problems there. It will also work on 50/50 (cotton/polyester) products although probably not as vibrant. But, there are certain subliminal items (such as bags etc) that I probably couldn’t do with a chromablast system.
Although, I could do ‘all of them’ with the sublimation inks.
So, is this a small price to pay? I can offer vibrant t-shirts (white) with the chromablast sytem but cannot probably offer ‘everything’ else – or should I go with the generic ‘sublimation’ package and be able to provide everything (but t-shirts and other items that work well with the chromablast system won’t look as good).
All opinions valued please
P.S – I just wanted to thank personally thank Justin for the work he does on the forum. I run a forum myself and know the pain it takes to manage it in the background with hosts, scripts etc).
Justin, thank you.
I have been looking at various ways to ‘expand’ my hobby/business from mugs and printable items to a whole new range of sublimation gifts (you may have seen my previous post(s) on DTG printers.
Having the set up to do mugs, I am already half way there to producing ceramic stuff and I just need a press that I will be getting with my new set up – this being the subject.
I have been busy reading and watching many posts and videos on (to be honest) nearly everything and really like the Chromablast system to be able to print my t-shirts. It looks vibrant and reduces the ‘normal film’ that is given with normal methods.
I am also going to purchase a decent vinyl cutter to allow me to do some designs in vinyl that will also go onto dark material.
The problem is that by buying the chromablast system I am limiting myself (as far as I believe) to what I do. The ‘special’ set up is designed to be used on 100% cotton so no problems there. It will also work on 50/50 (cotton/polyester) products although probably not as vibrant. But, there are certain subliminal items (such as bags etc) that I probably couldn’t do with a chromablast system.
Although, I could do ‘all of them’ with the sublimation inks.
So, is this a small price to pay? I can offer vibrant t-shirts (white) with the chromablast sytem but cannot probably offer ‘everything’ else – or should I go with the generic ‘sublimation’ package and be able to provide everything (but t-shirts and other items that work well with the chromablast system won’t look as good).
All opinions valued please
P.S – I just wanted to thank personally thank Justin for the work he does on the forum. I run a forum myself and know the pain it takes to manage it in the background with hosts, scripts etc).
Justin, thank you.