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Large scale screen printing production isn't going anywhere. However, the small shops that have a shelf life anyways, this is just speeding up the inevitable. Unless you are a massive online POD, no one has ever made money from doing low qty, one offs, etc. in the history of this industry. DTF is a tool. I visit 500 shops a year, some really massive places and lots of small shops. The sky is falling people don't leave their towns and listen to every thing on FB. I'm telling you, as a distributor, screen printing is alive and well. DTF is losing steam.
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« Last post by mk162 on Today at 04:49:38 PM »
Wonder how long it's going to take for all this to finally play out. More and more of it popping up in my feeds
......when the prints start to crack and fall off?
You'd be surprised, my son's school for the last 2 years has sent home wildly undercured Field Day tees. Like first wash the ink is cracking and peeling. This year we ran his through the oven and heatpressed it to make it wearable. People don't care if the price is right.
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« Last post by Homer on Today at 04:13:55 PM »
Wonder how long it's going to take for all this to finally play out. More and more of it popping up in my feeds
......when the prints start to crack and fall off?
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Wonder how long it's going to take for all this to finally play out. More and more of it popping up in my feeds
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« Last post by Homer on Today at 12:06:57 PM »
Large scale screen printing production isn't going anywhere. However, the small shops that have a shelf life anyways, this is just speeding up the inevitable. Unless you are a massive online POD, no one has ever made money from doing low qty, one offs, etc. in the history of this industry. DTF is a tool. I visit 500 shops a year, some really massive places and lots of small shops. The sky is falling people don't leave their towns and listen to every thing on FB. I'm telling you, as a distributor, screen printing is alive and well. DTF is losing steam.
THANK SWEET BABY GEEZUZ
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Large scale screen printing production isn't going anywhere. However, the small shops that have a shelf life anyways, this is just speeding up the inevitable. Unless you are a massive online POD, no one has ever made money from doing low qty, one offs, etc. in the history of this industry. DTF is a tool. I visit 500 shops a year, some really massive places and lots of small shops. The sky is falling people don't leave their towns and listen to every thing on FB. I'm telling you, as a distributor, screen printing is alive and well. DTF is losing steam.
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« Last post by 3Deep on March 04, 2026, 12:47:52 PM »
Moved to business section
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We get requests for dtf specifically. There is a dtf provider near me that has a “press room”. You pay a monthly subscription and use the provided heat presses. There is no investment at all. They are using top of the line auto presses.
We have been moving away from screening since covid anyway. I find our other offerings like sublimation, embroidery and laser engraving keep us 1/2 of a step ahead of cricket karen. It just sucks to see these idiots devalue the entire industry in just a few years.
Keep up the good fight!
Sorry man, in regards to screening you will not even come close to winning, it will be dying on the vine like a rasin. They call it a whore industry, no barrier to participate like the wild west.
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« Last post by balloonguy on February 27, 2026, 04:33:52 PM »
We get requests for dtf specifically. There is a dtf provider near me that has a “press room”. You pay a monthly subscription and use the provided heat presses. There is no investment at all. They are using top of the line auto presses.
We have been moving away from screening since covid anyway. I find our other offerings like sublimation, embroidery and laser engraving keep us 1/2 of a step ahead of cricket karen. It just sucks to see these idiots devalue the entire industry in just a few years.
Keep up the good fight!
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« Last post by whitewater on February 27, 2026, 10:07:50 AM »
Everything is so true here.
We recognized on what was happening. We could not sit and wait for our traditional customer to order from us. We identified who we would like for customers and started to aggressively to go after them.
We brought DTF in house, I like having the control. But we still use our auto, just not as much for smaller orders.
Also within the last year, we have been getting so much AI art, just from contractors, that without dtf I would have to turn it down.
This year is 20 years...alot has changed very recently.
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