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Title: I No Longer Dread Team Numbers or Player Names....
Post by: Fresh Baked Printing on May 18, 2011, 06:34:32 PM: I used to print team numbers with paper stencils and gang print names. Since I've "discovered" the ease of screen printed transfers, I actually look foward to the price and business team tees bring in.
Not sure if the transfers are for everything but man, what a relief!
Title: Re: I No Longer Dread Team Numbers or Player Names....
Post by: yaleteamsandtees on May 18, 2011, 07:56:22 PM: Done it for decades on T's
but we use Stahl's pre cut now for consistancy.

Too many different fabrics out there these days.
Title: Re: I No Longer Dread Team Numbers or Player Names....
Post by: tpitman on May 18, 2011, 08:40:10 PM: I've done dark ink transfers successfully, but I have a job I do every Fall with names and numbers, and half the job is golden yellow on royal blue tees. Getting an even layer of ink that registers to a white underbase, or even a print/flash/print, has dogged me, so I use cadcut material on my cutter, but that stuff is running about $2.50 a running foot. The consistency is great, though.
Title: Re: I No Longer Dread Team Numbers or Player Names....
Post by: Frog on May 18, 2011, 08:48:26 PM: If you want to save money on the material, and don't mind a little more layout work (very little actually) lay it out Frog free-style.
I rarely lay out a name and number as a set, but choose rather to lay out as many cuts as will fit on the sheet, cut, and position each component.

Since I also use a lot of die-cut, I'm used to this.

I showed one of my last layouts in this thread (http://www.norwb.com/index.php?topic=322.0).
Title: Re: I No Longer Dread Team Numbers or Player Names....
Post by: Sbrem on May 19, 2011, 08:19:24 AM: We have a numbering machine, but we cad cut the names. We do a lot of numbering. For some jobs, we use Transfer Express' screen printed 2 color numbers, which work really well on just about all fabrics. My 2?...
Title: Re: I No Longer Dread Team Numbers or Player Names....
Post by: tpitman on May 19, 2011, 03:12:45 PM: Does anyone ever bitch about the "difference" between the name and the number? Part of this job I do is royal blue ink, and if I thought they wouldn't complain about any slight difference, I'd print number transfers and cut the names on that portion.
Title: Re: I No Longer Dread Team Numbers or Player Names....
Post by: Sbrem on May 19, 2011, 03:16:31 PM: We try to match the ink to the film, or, we've printed the names as transfers with the same ink as the rest of the printing...

Steve
Title: Re: I No Longer Dread Team Numbers or Player Names....
Post by: Frog on May 19, 2011, 03:30:46 PM: I have three different golden yellow inks for when the print and custom name are close together.
I am in the process today of a gold screenprint on front, and die cut numbers on the back, and a perfect match isn't as important.
Title: Re: I No Longer Dread Team Numbers or Player Names....
Post by: JayzTeez on May 28, 2011, 09:48:07 PM: i really like the ease of Stahls Team Perfect goes really quickly and painless. i do have one question what is the
econo film from stahls?
Title: Re: I No Longer Dread Team Numbers or Player Names....
Post by: Frog on May 28, 2011, 10:33:06 PM: Ask 'em for a sample!
In years past, they had packages made out to see, try out, and compare all of their offerings, but be sure to mention the product you want, just to be sure.