Author Topic: Small Runs - Screen Print vs Cad Cut Heat Seal  (Read 912 times)

Offline Frog

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Small Runs - Screen Print vs Cad Cut Heat Seal
« on: March 19, 2018, 10:50:45 AM »
For those of you who take on small jobs, and offer both services, and assuming that a design is conducive to both methods, and quite simple to cut and weed, at what number do you make a screen and print, or cut, weed, and press?
« Last Edit: March 19, 2018, 11:19:48 AM by Frog »
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Re: Small Runs - Screen Print vs Cad Cut Heat Seal
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2018, 11:11:04 AM »
Every order is different but I usually find screen printing for 10+ to easier/faster.
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Re: Small Runs - Screen Print vs Cad Cut Heat Seal
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2018, 12:28:01 PM »
after about 6 pieces of cutting and weeding, printing makes more sense to me...

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Re: Small Runs - Screen Print vs Cad Cut Heat Seal
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2018, 12:37:04 PM »
also depends on the amount of weeding needed. 

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Re: Small Runs - Screen Print vs Cad Cut Heat Seal
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2018, 12:40:09 PM »
I'm going to cut and weed for one shirt today. The end user orders a ton from us, and a friend of his passed away before his son was born, so we're making a memorial shirt, a onesie for the baby. That will be a freebie of course. We don't have to make money on everything...

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Re: Small Runs - Screen Print vs Cad Cut Heat Seal
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2018, 12:42:48 PM »
I'm going to cut and weed for one shirt today. The end user orders a ton from us, and a friend of his passed away before his son was born, so we're making a memorial shirt, a onesie for the baby. That will be a freebie of course. We don't have to make money on everything...

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