cap presses

[chongsta]

Hi all,

Ive wanted to get into cap pressing for a while now and low n behold Ive just been asked to do a starting order of about 150 to possibly 400 caps for a car club!

Im after some advice on presses and in particular which are the best caps to buy? I know thats a generic question about the caps seeing as there's so many varieties, Im after what you guys buy in and sell on a regular basis. Im a customer of Ralawise and caps seem to be around about £1.80 (per 150 carton), are these good prices? seems good to me.

I should ask as well, whats a good price to charge? £3.00 - £3.50 is this a good trade price? The car club isnt selling them on, they're for the entrants to the competitions throughout the year, so I'd like to give a good price and retain the trade rather than charge more for if they were selling them on.

I'll also be using my tshirt printable vinyl for the designs, any problems using that or is there special cap vinyl lol

Cheers in advance
Dave.

[logobear]

Beechfield BB10 carton rate is about a pound, printed vinyl is easiest, we have no issues, I think £3.50 or even a bit more ?
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[chongsta]

Beechfield BB10 carton rate is about a pound, printed vinyl is easiest, we have no issues, I think £3.50 or even a bit more ?
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thanks for the reply, i couldnt locate the BB10 though! I found BC010 Original 5 Panel Cap which were £1.09 and they seem like very nice caps indeed and they do a grey which is what the club want. Nice one for that.

Any advice on a cap press? I see a few on eBay around £130.00 + free delivery.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-HAT-CAP-HEAT- ... 2c5621cce2

cheers
Dave.

[mrs maggot]

minimum of £3.50 they would sell them on (if they were to at between £6 & £8) Caps take a while to get used to pressing, anything less than £3.50/£3.90 and you are not allowing for the vinyl time or paying off the heatpress you will be buying. Never be ashamed to charge people for a quality item, and never make the mistake of passing on any special deals or prices to customers, when a supplier offers a deal use the extra margin to help you - not the customer

[AdamB]

...........and never make the mistake of passing on any special deals or prices to customers, when a supplier offers a deal use the extra margin to help you - not the customer

Ditto

If you get a good deal from a supplier and offer a customer this then what happens when the deal isn't there from the supplier. 'You' would expect time-lined deals but a 'customer' would expect to pay the same price (with the exception of VAT rises etc).

[Paul]

from me only that: flock look beter on cap then flex

all the best!

[Justin]

We bought a cap press a few years back. Wasn't sure how popular caps would be so we just bought a cheap used one off eBay. It did the job perfectly ok and paid for itself in no time. I guess something like the one you've seen would be fine, you can always upgrade as and when funds allow but you may well find that one would be ample.

[mrs maggot]

just make sure the caps are right for printing, some of them panel wise will not sit flat on the press if they have a panel join in the middle

[Gordon]

Hi Ralawise have cap's for as little as 29p have a look in the rala deal box (on the right at the top). & mrs maggot is right, you dont wont the the six panel cap's. and they are Beechfield, a good brand.

[Gordon]

Sorry it's on thr left, not the right. lol