not happy with my quality using heat press.help needed.asda so much better quality

[Justin]

From what I've seen in the past the 'store' sold items have been very poor so I'm surprised to hear this. You say you're not happy with your results, please give us details of your setup.

[Paul]

Why you are not happy with your results? Whats wrong with them? What your setup buddy?

[gorgall2]

For one thing they will buy all their supplies in bulk and get them a lot cheaper than we can.

[Dave271069]

My gues is and it is a guess is that the companies they buy from wont be on this forum doing single prints etc but factories with ovens the size of houses if you know what I mean, also Im guessing again the phone covers are gigantic printers that would not fit in a standard room in a house but yet more factories.
but ay wot do I know!

[socialgiraffe]

Hi Dan

Its a numbers game that gets them so low and also their delivery network. For example if Asda came to you and asked for individual mugs and anticipate 500 a day you would be laughed at if you quoted them anything over £2.00 per mug. But then think about it, a five at once mug press can output about 300-500 mugs per day, total cost for the mug and print is about £1.00 (absolute maximum), so you would be making roughly £200-400 per day in profit. I would happily take that sort of figure everyday. With regards to individual imaging etc, the way this is done is via a bespoke computer system.

Wide format printers that print dye sub are okay, but you need the room. I know of many high producing companies that use the Ricoh 7000 A3 printer. Again, some use ovens but that is their preference, as someone who has and does produce bulk mug orders I have never been convinced that the ovens are economically cheaper than a mug press.

With regards to things like iphone covers, again its a numbers thing and also they have automatic presses. The ones I have seen for bulk heat press work are four platens and 1 press. The platens rotate on a caurosel and one operator can load and another unload. These machines can output 300 ish an hour. With iphone covers they need a bit longer under the press, but then you can get 7-8 under the press at one time.

Not one company I know of that produces bulk mugs or heat transfer items has switched to direct to item printers. From what I have seen they are simply not up to speed yet and also the material cost on things like ink is considerably more.

With regards to your sublimation results, can you upload a couple of images (perhaps with the Asda one next to it) and then someone on here will be able to give you some helpful advice.