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I have been lurking here for a while and learnt so much from old posts that I haven't needed to ask any questions so thanks everyone

One thing I have learnt (the hard way) is that cheap kit gets you cheap results. It's not only a great printer that helps, but decent paper and mugs. Mugs from eBay were a massive fail, they worked but were so inconsistent, colours didn't look right etc.

Anyway, I'm sure of all know all that

Thanks again

Matt
www.positivesafetytraining.co.uk

Hi Matt and welcome to the forum, looks like you've learned a valuable lesson already

Justin
DSF Admin

welcome an as Justin says you have had that experience and aslong as you learned from it you wont make the same mistake again

Hi Matt

Finally someone talking sense LOL!!!!

Bang on with cheap kit = cheap results.

I am glad you have learnt so much from this forum and look forward to you gaining experience and sharing your tips, tricks and ideas on the forum.

socialgiraffe;55987 wrote:Hi Matt

Finally someone talking sense LOL!!!!

Bang on with cheap kit = cheap results.

I am glad you have learnt so much fromand look forward tnd sharing your tips, tricks and ideas on the forum.

i chalangin yo with my cheap setup

You are on

My kit is so cheap even Lidl wont stock it!!!!

Paul;56054 wrote:i chalangin yo with my cheap setup

Not forgetting you can do your own profiles Paul though!

Have to say my epson 435w cheap mug press and cheap flat bead press seem to working just fine here though.

Thats not set up

I say That success in sublimation is
50% in our knolage
25%% in gear
25% in blanks.

hmmm

I would say its more like

70% Knowledge
20% Blanks
10% gear

My basis is because as Charlie says, his cheap stuff is producing sweet results and I suspect that is down to his learning and knowledge base. I have had conversations about cheap versus expensive with many people. As an example I have a Ricoh 7000 and will never consider anything else even though it cost over £700 new, its been brilliant. But for heat transfers I refuse to pay £500 +VAT for a recommended laser printer from The Magic Touch. Instead I purchased a £99.00 cheapie from PC World which has printed about 4000 prints so far without any hassle. Even if it went wrong tomorrow I could throw it away, buy another one and still be in pocket £300. If this happened 5 times then admittedly it would end up costing more than a TMT one. But by then I would have printed in excess of 20,000 heat transfers so I wouldn't care about the money

20% blanks I think is being a bit generous as I do not think there are many hidden secrets these days on items. Personally I would cut this to 10% and add another section which would be 10% contacts