DarronHicks

Who could forget the always popular 3 random letters in an oval.

OWJones- Do you get good quality prints from the Epson printer? I mean on the final product. Also what printer do you have?

Not really doing it to move out haha. I just like graphic design and making money. Right now I have a job at a kmart stocking stuff so I have some money. In April I will be working at Busch Stadium again and at kmart then doing the vinyl stuff on the side to make some extra money. I plan on buying the vinyl cutter as my last big purchase before I buckle down and actually start saving for a car and to move out. I did graphics 4 years in high school and made a bunch of signs for different schools where we had to get them approved by either teachers, board members, principals or all of the above so I know a decent amount about sign making and such.

I can understand that. I know just in my town we have 2 or 3 coffee/tea cafes. With the increasing popularity of coffee shops among college age students and teens I can see these shops wanting coffee mugs and coffee travel mugs with their brand on them. I can easily go out and make pitches to multiple places and try to get orders if I have the equipment to do the mugs. Then they could sell the travel mugs to customers and have the mugs in the shop instead of throw away coffee cups like the big chain coffee shops have. I don't know maybe im thinking to far ahead ahahah.

Pad printing seems like there is just too much money and too much crap that goes into it. I mean sublimation is pretty expensive too. A basic sublimation set up is about 1000 dollars and that is low end stuff. I guess with you having a heat press already that saves you some money. 250 dollars for ink to refill the sublimation printer is crazy in my opinion but im still interested in doing it at some point.

So let me ask. How simple is this?

I am definitely listening to everything that is being said. I love the help because its obvious most of you know what you are doing. You know what points to make and what to tell me to check. Thanks everyone!

Thanks for everyones help so far. I am on a bunch of different forums for various hobbies ( I have an absurd number of hobbies) and I know that the new guy asking a ton of questions that have been asked 1000 times can be very annoying. However it can at times be a good way to judge the quality of forums too and I must say this forum is awesome.

Conde seems to be the best because they don't have any kind of minimums. I was on there the other day and thinking man that would be cool, man that would be cool, man wouldn't that be cool to do, so I could for sure see it being easy to spend that much in a hurry. hahaha!

I would like to have the ability to do contour cutting and it says that the MH series can not do it. I mean it wouldn't really be necessary until I had a printer and that may never happen or by that point I will have a better cutter. It is a lot to think about lol.

I like the price of the MH series that's on eBay right now. At 300 dollars its pretty good unfortunately I wont be able to jump into this until January sometime. I may look into the SC I have some Christmas stuff to buy and owe a little money so that's my next couple checks. After that however I am able to get into this stuff! haha. Thanks everyone!

Also am I going to have static problems in a carpeted room?

Now that I think about it at school we were mainly limited by the printer we had. We had Gerber Edge thermal transfer printer and on that you can do a lot just not large graphics lol. If I ever get back to the school I will take pictures of the work I did that is still up. I know there are at least 8 things that I did myself or with the help of my buddy. I really want to take pictures of stuff I did but I am not sure if I can get permission to do it. I may just have my brother do it for me!

It seems like getting a 34 inch cutter would limit me to smaller signs. I could always piece together 2 halves but in my opinion that looks unprofessional at times haha.

I see what you are saying. Sounds like I should do more research on in my target market, which is mainly local people my age and higher. I know personalized stuff is pretty popular right now especially local team stuff. I think I like the versatility of sublimation a little bit better but I am not a fan of the cost aspect of it. Puzzles, bracelets, and flip flops are popular just from listening to people around me, so then I would just have to take that and convince them that that stuff is cool but personalized versions of that stuff is REALLY cool! Haha