New Boy - please be gentle

[Paul]

Hallo mate! welcome on forum. I am sire you can find loads of handy info and start pressing mugs asap!

[Justin]

Hi Lee,

Great to have you on board!

You'll find a fair bit of info on mug printing here already but please ask away. Many of us print mugs and have been through the pain barrier.

Look forward to speaking more with you soon.

Justin

[JSR]

Welcome to the forum

So my next master plan was to possibly try my hand at 'Mugs' for my soldier friends, every squadie drinks tea......it's the law!!

I have not bought any kit yet, but I am activly looking, so please bear with me if I start asking some questions that are really obvious to you lot......please bear with me,

If you want to make mugs without the hair-pulling and spending money on kit, one option might be to work with someone who already makes mugs. They could do the mugs for you and you could put a couple of quid on each one. You make money without the heartache and without spending money upfront on kit. Once you've got the ball rolling, you could invest your earnings into kit and start making them yourself. If you don't find a big enough market, you haven't lost anything.

Just a thought.

[R.Prints]

Hi lee,
Was in the forces myself upto 2007, if you need any info just get intouch.
Cheers
Ray.

[Traynor26]

Sorry for the double posts........just getting the hang of this forum...

Thanks for the welcomes,

JSR, thanks for the idea, but I get bored easy.....which is one of the reasons for doing this sort of thing, I enjoy the 'making & creating' side of stuff, I loved doing all different number plate / door designs. So I think I might just take the plunge and throw a bit of cash at it.


Someone on Ebay is doing a starter pack for £200, sounds a bit too good to be true for me. But the idea of having a very basic setup that I could upgrade in time is very tempting,

What are your thoughts, here is the eBay item number......320467344788

[Justin]

Never used that particular printer for sublimation, anyone else?

I would question what ink is in the cartidges and bear in mind that this won't last very long at all.

The mug press is a pretty basic one. Prob. be fine though.

Worth checking out a few of the suppliers in our Sticky section. BMS for example do a couple of very good cheap presses.

You get what you pay for with sublimation, press, ink etc. Spend wisely once to avoid spending annoyingly twice! or something like that anyway!

Justin

[Paul]

I would stay a way of it mate! Very good mug press as a starter but you can get it for about £100. get you self epson D120. it will cost about £55. then all u need is refillable carts and ink

you ready to print

I know there is ink already in this package but you dont know what ink this is and there is no ICC profile with it. You dont want to get blue color as a grey etc...???

as JNMann said. it will not last long any way....

[Traynor26]

Spot on, thanks lads, that's just the info I was after.

Have been looking at the D120, just ploughing my way through the forum now at the ink suppliers.

Thanks again