How to Start a T-Shirt Business at Home | Key Things to Know! By Stahls’ TV

I am Josh Ellsworth Wisconsin stahl’s Transfer Express and thanks so much for tuning in to this video how to start your own t-shirt business from home I’ve helped thousands of t-shirt entrepreneurs get started and make money with a heat press I can’t press is a high profit machine and I’m going to prove it to you in this video and show you how to generate your own income from a spare bedroom a garage maybe even a living room or a catch I’ve seen it all visiting different customers and it all starts with a technology called a screen printed transfer at stalls we have a division called Transfer Express that manufactures screen printing transfers that get heat applied with a heat press in 4 seconds or less it’s really phenomenal and you can make so much money with just a small machine like a heat press a shirt like this including the Garment the labor and the transfer I can print easily for $7 or less you can sell these all day for a minimum of $12 possibly much more if you’re like me and you like math that’s five

dollars in profit for every sure that you print and you can print 50 of the shirt in less than an hour generating $250 in income all you need to do is learn how to order the right to transfer make sure you have an accurate breast and make sure you have customers that you can sell to I’m going to help you with all three of those things over the course of this video and I’d like to start by explaining the five most popular heat transfer types that you can print from home let’s get started with screen printing transfers screen printing is still one of the most popular Technologies for decorating apparel retail and is a business you should be interested in mimicking that walk with your heat press with screen print transfers such as this Goof Proof transfer from Transfer Express you’re getting actual plastisol ink the same stuff that’s used in screen printing onto a paper carrier the benefit of this is you can group up multiple images on the one sheet as long as there utilizing the same colors

you can order these and they start to make sense once you hit 15 shirts are more you received them in all you do is trim them apart and he’d apply the finished result on the Garment feels great just like screen printing this is the easiest way to decorate t-shirts with a heat press the second way I want to show you to heat press a shirt is with heat transfer vinyl we call it tagged cut this product is especially popular because you can do extremely low quantities cost-effectively as little as one and personalization which is really popular right now you can buy this by the roll loaded into what’s called a vinyl cutter their desktop or industrial units you cut your vector design in the mirror image weed away the excess and you get your pieces ready to press so unlike screen printing transfers where we’re getting everything all of the colors on one transfer sheet and they apply at once when you’re working with multiple colors in heat transfer vinyl we need two layer so we cut each roll each color separately piece them together on the shirt at

brass and finish the job because of the steps involved this isn’t ideal for very fine detail our work because we need to complete the weeding process and you really want to keep your color countdown but one of the biggest benefits of heat transfer vinyl is the range of special effects from reflective to glitter to metalex the foil there so many finishes that you can complete on a heat press with heat transfer vinyl

the third way I want to show you to decorate apparel with your heat press is print cut heat transfer vinyl it’s a little bit different than standard heat transfer vinyl because in this case the material just comes to you in clear or white you actually need to have a printer cutter solvent latex one of these large format machines to be able to print all of the colors that you need on to the vinyl now the benefit of this is I can do as many colors as I want onto a transfer without increasing my cost no more layering involved just print cut weed mask and then you’re ready to heat apply print cut heat transfer vinyl comes in many different styles and it’s gray from everything from t-shirts to athletic wear and there are special effect finishes such as glitter that you can use with the process if your design has three or more colors and it’s a low quantity you’re going to want to look at print and cut heat transfer vinyl to complete the job

option number four in this is what I’m really excited about because it’s brand new technology for 2020 we call it a digital screen printed transfer so in the past we’ve had to use print cut heat transfer vinyl for jobs sizes that really weren’t ideal for printing cutting weeding masking completing all the steps that we just talked about or maybe there were was too much detail in the design that I didn’t want to read it and so you know we have screen printing transfers you know we have digital which means printings involved and so we have this digital screen printed transfer now you can get heat transfer that combines the best of both World digital printing and Screen Printing allowing for fine detail cost savings as you go up in quantity and lots of opportunity for multiple colors all on one sheet group different designs single step application I love this technology for decorating t-shirts performance wear and more

okay I want to take a brief time out now that you’ve reviewed what I call the core for print Technologies for heat transfer believe it or not those for print math is if you just learned a little bit about or going to be used for I would say 95% or more of the jobs that you’re going to want to print in your business and so the natural question is how do I decide which one to use we’ve given you some baseline understanding that there has to be an easy way to process this and so just give you a little background and some contacts I was sitting in her room. She was probably about two years ago with some of the largest contract decorators in our industry out of our Transfer Express West facility in Arizona over the course of a couple days we’re talking about a lot of topics but one of the topics that came up one of their challenges was how do I equip my sales people to quickly select the right transfer products we can do a quote quickly and we can order the right product quickly and there’s some consistency to how we’re doing this

here’s what we came up with it say what to use when grid and these big dogs he’s expert they’re using this Grand and I mean these are the largest of largest contract decorators but it’s something you can use to even in your small start-up from home business you’ll see the for print techniques we talked about so far represented on the grid and you also see along the X & Y axis a number of colors in your Design Air logo in quantity of garments and so all you need to do is figure out how many colors are in the logo pretty easy to figure out right what quantity the customer may want to order and go ahead and see where those two axis has joined and that gives you your print method it’s going to be the lowest cost often allows you to print your job and most importantly it’s going to add consistency into your selection all of these products are high-quality endurable this just helps you to get to the right one a little bit faster OK Google map in this involved here and it’s a new technology it’s a water-based

most liked our screen printing transfers but those are plastisol ink traditional screen printing this is water base not highly utilized as one of our top four methods but none the less important for you to know about in case you want to do something super premium on the results so it show you that 10K on if he transfers because it is a premium finished now we’re talkin about more new technology that is a water-based screen print transfer remember that first screen-printed transfer that we applied Plaza salt water base is where screen printing is heading and now you can apply water based transfers with your heat press the advantage is that you get something that’s buttery soft on the Garment that has straps that it can apply to practically any fabric you want to take your business out of t-shirts and start applying nylon jackets will water-based screen printing transfers are the ticket this product is called aquatru

so there you go. We have those five different ways to print apparel at home with your heat press and by no means does that include all of the ways I like to say there is a whole umbrella of print methods and technologies that can go underneath your heat pressing as we get to the end of this video I’m going to show you a lot of different finishes and styles that you can complete with your heat press from home but before I get too far I want to make sure that we talked about investing in the right heat press because as you might imagine this is the Cornerstone of your printing business you’re seeing a heat press on my desk are the eight is a heat press and I’m going to show you and in the last video footage you solve the Stalls Max machine at stalls we manufacture a wide selection of heat presses everything from entry-level to Super high-end as we’ve talked about from $600 to $8,000 is the price point but regardless of what he press you select you need to make sure you have accuracy in time temperature and pressure because that really make sure that the items that you are

we’re going to be a high-quality and they’re going to last other certainly a lot of machines out there on the market that don’t deliver accurate time temperature and pressure we’ve designed this A to Z heat press specifically for you for a startup home decorator that wants to get into heat Printing and do it with quality so I’d like to show you the features of this press now in a previously recorded video the first thing I want you to notice about this machine is that it swings away this gives me a complete keep free workspace to place my t-shirts and also to position my design I have a high quality t-shirt here that I’m just going to load onto the press and make sure my pressing area is completely flat by just draping the collar off of the back edge of the press

I programmed the press the 360° it has accurate digital time and we know that’s exactly the temperature that it is anywhere on this heat pressing surface I’m going to preheat my garment by blocking it down for just a few seconds and then open the machine there’s a nice handle to swing the machine away and then I’m going to position my Design This is a screen-printed transfer and we make them from transfer express.com this is actual screen printing ink in the big secret here is that you can now screen print from home with this machine with the same durability that you see in the retail store position your design where you’d like it onto your garment

bring the heat press back into the location and lock it down this transfer only takes 4 to 6 seconds to heat a fly once it’s complete I open the press and I feel the back of my design and I have a design that sticks and it stays through many washes and press print screen print transfers it can also print heat transfer vinyl the heat apply the version of heat transfer vinyl that we have I’m going to go ahead and reduce the temperature on my digital control board down to 300 degrees

and we will set the timer for 10 seconds we’re going to apply a glitter design that’s been cut on my Silhouette Cameo vinyl cutter wait for the press to cool down and I’ll show you how to print a bag

when putting an item like a bag there is a lot of seam structure so it’s not just a product you can lay on top of the press and be able to print with any accuracy because you need to get your item flat now the Press has a semi threadable design that means when we look underneath it we can actually split our item open whether that’s from the front or from the back to load it easier to get rid of that bulk and seen imma show you how it works you just split the item open and we are going to slide it up on the press that gets me the start of a flat printing area and then I’ll either take it he printing pillow or what we call a pretty perfect pad and I’ll slide it under the item to make sure that that print location which is right here with my monogram glitter design is higher. It’s Rays versus all of these themes now this heat press does have an adjustable pressure it’s right here on the back of the machine it’s okay that’s on the back because it is a swing-away style pressed that walk straight down when you’re using it

I’ll bring the machine over Center I’m going to retract the pressure just by turning this counter-clockwise and I’m going to lock the machine down to get a feel for the pressure and I’ll just make adjustments until I get an accurate pressure on the print location that I want to use

I have the machine set will position our glitter heat transfer vinyl design

will bring the press back over Center and I’ll press it for the 300 degrees for 10 seconds so what do you want to decorate t-shirts or bags you can do it on the A to Z heat press screen printing transfers or heat transfer vinyl very accurately after it’s been applied I’ll peel the backing while it’s hot for this design and I have a high-quality completed results very easy to do

let’s move on to our next item

team uniforms are big opportunity for your heat press business I’m going to decorate this mesh polyester football jersey with a product called thermal film and pre-cut numbers for this I’ll need another tool that they keep printing pillow that he printing pillow is going to slide into your jersey to separate the layers of mash so that they don’t stick together when it comes to applying Your Design. The slide the pillow in

Center the Jersey onto my press

I got to swing the press back around and conducted preheat I have a nice 15 x 15 in printing service which is going to give me plenty of room to be able to decorate with single or double digit numbers please come loose with the adhesive on the back I’ll position that into place

in this case I use a craft paper cover sheet

and then I’ll heat apply thermal film applies for 8 Seconds

block machine down it will countdown to zero and beep when it’s completed

now let’s flip the Jersey to be able to print the back

what’s need to make some slight readjustments to my pillow

make sure I can see my print location

also going to preheat the back

possession my back number into place

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thermofilm is the fastest easiest way to number athletic uniforms in the A to Z heat press makes applying thermal fill numbers easier than ever

for the next item I want to show you how to decorate a jacket this is a quarter zip so we’re going to utilize our semi through edible design and be able to split the jacket over the bottom to load it on

and there’s still some seems up on the pressing area and zippers so I’ll take my print perfect pad I’ll slide it inside of my jacket into the left chest print location that I’m trying to hit make sure my pressure is accurate

can any pressure adjustment can be made on the Press

and this heat press is capable of applying any transfer type in this case were using a digital full-color transfer to put a company logo onto this item is a nice 15 x 15 inch printing service that allows me to see the placement of my design make sure it’s lined up correctly

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a high-quality completed result

I’ll let you know the products that you can create let’s take a look at all of the features on the A to Z heat press first it has digital time and temperature which produced accurate quality results

2 it has a pressure adjustment that allows the machine to be raised and lowered to adjust the pressure and to accommodate the thickness of your item or print perfect pad or heat printing pillow

the Press features a nice swing away design that allows for a completely Heat free workspace for both placing your graphic and also being able to see over top of your item for Lyman Max the Press has a convenient handle to be able to return the machine back to the pressing location and the shovel handle design with a foam pad to make for Comfort when you’re locking down the machine

the base of the press is semi threadable allowing you to split your item and print more items than ever before we say everything from A to Z also this machine has interchangeable attached there’s a knob underneath the lower platen that allows you to remove the 15 x 15 attachment and load another size if you need you for printing your item and last but not least this is made in the USA which means quality accuracy and durability not only of the machine itself but also of the product that you create

so for less than $700 I think the A to Z heat press is a great start up option and just to talk a little bit about Roi you remember the shirt that we reviewed at the very beginning of the video we talked about the profit potential in this shirt we said $5 in profit if we can sell it for $12 which I think is a really low price 450 shirt so they got $5 in profit X the 50 shirts in an hour $250 an hour so on your list right now one of your goals should be to sell three jobs of 50 shirts or six jobs of 25 shirt that’s going to mean you’re going to print 150 shirts it’s going to take you less than three hours with screen printing transfers and you’re going to pay off your machine and in from then on out its profits you can get a ton of return on an investment of a deep breath and you can print so much more than just t-shirts with screen printing transfers as you’ve already started to learn and so let’s talk about the types of customers that you can read with a heat press

I’ll show you some different designs and different products some different finishes that you can achieve with your heat press printing from home for First Market let’s focus on Sports and spirit and take a look at a few different garments and items this is a slight cancer event shirt something very popular is doing event shirts for games or special events related to school sports and spirit

we have a seat cover here that’s customized with two colors of heat transfer vinyl items like this as long as you can get them flat can be decorated on the heat press

team uniforms as you saw earlier certainly a big category from stretchy materials at work on stretch fabric like this volleyball uniform to highly durable will materials that can just be he applied that look like they’re sewn on his hockey jersey even sublimated patches that can be applied with the heat press to get a full color will Design

don’t be afraid to expand the items that you’re offering here we have the down the leg print with an electric heat transfer vinyl that’s a nice and easy customization

oil one of the top-selling effects that you can do with the heat press in this case we’re doing a baseball mom shirt you can do all sorts of fan apparel and support for sports teams in schools

I love this book because we’re combining glitter with a pattern foil so mixing and matching different materials helps to have your results stand out and is going to generate more revenue flowing through your heat press and here’s another great look just selecting a high-end blank item like this glitter hoodie comparing it with glitter and flat heat transfer vinyl grates a great walk sell sports school spirit Top Market to sell to with your heat press another big potential Market that’s available in nearly every Community our promotional products to promote a brand as well as small business apparel the weather that is a face cover with a corporate brand that you see here or a neck gaiter

a polo shirt

a bag

or even reflective finishes for Industries like safety or construction on there are a ton of opportunities for decorating higher-end items with higher-end looks on the heat press as well for businesses around town another very popular use for the heat press is printing graphic tees or even a clothing line in this case you can see the detail of the electric and flat material that’s been used to customize this flannel shirt with all sorts of placement in detailing in the graphic

the heat press is capable of doing rhinestones and the advantage of using your heat press to decorate like this is you can print the order as you realize yourself through your e-commerce store at city or wherever you’re selling even printing on onesies is extremely popular use for these products a lot of the heat transfer products are cpsia compliant which means they can be used on Children’s Apparel to great opportunity

we see a lot of customization with higher end styles with for female fashion in particular so lots of different looks that you can do for printing graphic tees for e-commerce fulfillment

the next category is personalization whether that’s for General back-to-school opportunities holidays in the light in this case with heat transfer vinyl on a vinyl cutter you can do quantities as little as one this is a red reflective material

we have a holiday placemat that’s been done for the Harris family Christmas another sales opportunity

personalized stockings another great sales opportunity heading into Christmas

you can personalize handbags on your heat press whether that’s a clutch like this with basic or glitter heat transfer film

birthday shirts another great opportunity again great sales opportunity for selling on online platforms

customized with foil

and another example of a tote bag all these items very easy to print you just need to find the market that you want to sell to

there’s certainly a big opportunity to get group orders for your heat presses with events in this case we have a full color digital screen print transfer for this spring break t

as well as flock personalization which is a type of heat transfer vinyl onto this beach towel again both of those opportunities for spring break type event also walks and runs were there for charity or something else on these are very easy and you can heat press performance we’re very easily on to your heat press

in this case we see we can even decorate tie-dye the shirt for a County Fair

or if you want to do higher-end items like a full-color print paired with reflective for racing gear for a weekend or for a brand all of this is possible another big Market is municipalities whether that’s police Fire EMS paramedic so many opportunities await in your own local community of different items you can print looks and can achieve in markets that you can reach with just a heat press printing from home now I don’t want you to get overwhelmed because it actually can be pretty simple we showed you that what to use when grid up front because it does help with the product selection process knowing that you can order all of these items completed for you from Transfer Express and from stalls and when you buy any heat press from skulls or Transfer Express we include something called a marketing get this marketing kit is going to have samples of all the different screen print transfer options and did

screen print transfer options and that’s going to be the best way for you to start printing in your business if you already have a vinyl cutter if you’re eyeing up with vinyl cutter you can also get heat transfer vinyl samples that comes with your A to Z heat brass investment as well as we specialize in teaching you really how to print items and we have thousands of hours of footage on our stalls tv YouTube channel and said that channel is going to be your best friend so make sure that you subscribe to the Stalls tv YouTube channel and you can work through the different videos and we launched about 325 videos a week teaching you how to make walks that you have just seen for the different markets and so will teach you how to print you really need to figure out what Market you’re going to approach who you’re going to sell to who is going to be your customer and I’m guessing if you’re watching this video you may already have some ideas to that at I would recommend that you write those ideas down who are the top five customer type that you’re going to sell sell to

Bible say you’re going to sell to small businesses I would encourage you to brainstorm of a list of the sales of the small businesses that you’re going to call first this is a start of a marketing plan a sales and marketing plan I am really a plan for your business if you need more help on marketing I’ve read an outstanding book that I’m going to recommend to you it’s called marketing made simple and it’s written by Donald Miller I can teach you a lot about sales and marketing but I’m telling you this book you can probably read it over the course of a day or two it’s going to be a great companion to our house to advise on how to print stuff it will teach you how to create a marketing plan for your business how to find your voice how to really reach the customers that are going to be able to buy the products so you can get the return and maybe one day tearing this from a side hustle school full-time job in generate income for your household so make sure you’re subscribing to the Stalls TV channel

if you want to invest in this heat brass you’re ready to take that next step in your business and there’s links in the description below and that will direct you to the Press into some packages that we set up with the accessories are going to need I can get started and I’m going to encourage you to comment on this video If you have a question about something that you washed ask it in the comments section I’m standing by reviewing the comments as well as our other Educators our entire goal with stalls and stahl’s Transfer Express is to help you be successful in your apparel decorating business when you’re successful you buy more t-shirts from us and you buy more transfers from us and you buy more vinyl from us and it’s a win-win relationship so best of luck as you look and get started in your heat printing business and we’re here if you need help thanks for what