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The first tip is to set up your workspace in a way where you can streamline the printing process. So your pretreatment area should be near the heat press and your DTG printer. This is so you don’t have to be moving around too much around your workspace. Doing this will save you valuable time, which you can use to print more shirts.
Our next tip is to buy pretreated shirts from a wholesaler if you don’t have time to pretreat them yourself. The third tip is to buy another heat press if you plan on pretreating your own shirts. It only takes a few seconds to pretreat the shirt and just a minute to cure it on the heat press. With two presses, you can pretreat more shirts in a specific time span than with just one.
The most important advice we can give you is to make sure your DTG printer is always running and that you are always doing something. If the you or the printer are ever idle, then that means you’re being inefficient. Having your DTG idle is sign that there is a problem with your workflow, or you aren’t producing pretreated shirts fast enough to feed into the printer. If you find moments where you have nothing to do, that might be an indication to invest in more machinery. If you had more machines, you could use your idle time to create more DTG printed shirts-and make more money!
Another indication you may need more DTG printers is if you are pretreating more shirts than you are able to print. This results in pretreated shirts piling up as you wait for the printer to finish. If you had more printers, you could be printing multiple shirts at once instead of printing one shirt at a time.
Next, try to get a heat press with an auto-open feature. Having this feature can lead to increased productivity because you can multitask without worrying that your heat press is going to ruin your shirt by overheating.
You’ll also want to get a heat press with a slide-out tray. When you are trying to pump out orders quickly, safety may not be the first thing on your mind. The slide-out tray is a safety feature that keeps your hands away from the hot plate, allowing you to heat press faster than if you didn’t have this safety feature.
And finally, when creating a design for your shirts, have lots of negative space that is the same color as the shirt. Doing this will not only save you on ink costs, but it will help to make the shirt feel nicer to wear and more breathable. Printing less ink on the shirt also saves you time on the heat press because the less ink you use, the less time it needs to cure.
22 авг 2024
