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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: Frog on March 19, 2018, 10:50:45 AM

Title: Small Runs - Screen Print vs Cad Cut Heat Seal
Post by: Frog 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?

Title: Re: Small Runs - Screen Print vs Cad Cut Heat Seal
Post by: balloonguy on March 19, 2018, 11:11:04 AM

Every order is different but I usually find screen printing for 10+ to easier/faster.

Title: Re: Small Runs - Screen Print vs Cad Cut Heat Seal
Post by: Sbrem on March 19, 2018, 12:28:01 PM

after about 6 pieces of cutting and weeding, printing makes more sense to me...

steve

Title: Re: Small Runs - Screen Print vs Cad Cut Heat Seal
Post by: mk162 on March 19, 2018, 12:37:04 PM

also depends on the amount of weeding needed. 

I usually forget the vinyl cutter is even here until we run out of pre-cut numbers.

Title: Re: Small Runs - Screen Print vs Cad Cut Heat Seal
Post by: Sbrem 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...

Steve

Title: Re: Small Runs - Screen Print vs Cad Cut Heat Seal
Post by: mk162 on March 19, 2018, 12:42:48 PM

Quote from: Sbrem 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...

Steve

I hate stuff like that.  Then again I cry at supermarket commercials.  Those that live outside of any area that runs Publix ads are lucky.