Hi people!! Could any of you help? Mug printing business

[Joelbell1994]

Thank you UK printed mugs. Any advice would be great. I'm looking for some suppliers with a starter kit but I am struggling to find

[Quinsfan]

Have a think about the £10 membership, which is a small amount to pay when you receive a wealth of knowledge and also discounts from some of the suppliers.
This is a small list of suppliers( not all of them offer DSF discounts)
Listawood,
Xpres,
Dye Sublimation Supplies,
BMS.


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[webtrekker]

Hi I've been looking at halogen ovens do you use one may I ask?

I use both a halogen oven and standard mug presses. I find the oven best for full-area prints. You'll need some silicone mug wraps that clip the paper print to the mug. I use the green ones from ebay, available for about £5 each. It takes me about 9 minutes to 'cook' a single mug in the oven and about 12 minutes for two.

I just use a Ricoh SG3110DN A4 printer with inks and paper from City Ink Express, but I believe the inks from [MENTION=8634]InkExpress[/MENTION] (who advertise in this forum) are excellent.

[InkExpress]

We can provide printer starter packages which cover the printing side of things - printer, Inktec inks, sublimation paper, refillable cartridges / or CISS and an ICC profile to colour match the inks / paper and printer combination.

As a company we specialise in the printers / inks / papers. We do not venture into the heat press or blanks side of things as there are already many good suppliers out there and / or on this forum.

RICOH and Epson printers are popular alternatives to a Sawgrass printer setup and can save 50%+ on the initial investment. The RICOH printers are now discontinued and any remaining stock is demanding quite a premium, albeit they are cracking printers for sublimation.

We typically supply Epson desktop inkjet printers that are converted for sublimation, our packages starter from £149.00 all in, this would be for a good basic A4 printers perfect for mugs and smaller sublimate items. I personally use a very cheap single clamp mug press which cost £60.00, granted I only do a few mugs but it works brilliantly for me and is a great way to get started.

As a few of the other members have said, you can start off small to dip your toe and work from there as demand grows.

Alex

[Joelbell1994]

Hi webstrelker stayed up a while last night researching and also watching videos of how its done in a halogen oven. Would any oven work or do you recommend one? Really appreciate your help mate. Also ink express do you have a website I could look on at your equipment or point me in the right direction for buying?

[Joelbell1994]

I think I am going to use a halogen oven to heat press the mugs seems more people have saved loads of the electric bill doing this. Ink express? Would you have everything else in store I need to start up?

[Joelbell1994]

I think I am going to use a halogen oven to heat press the mugs seems more people have saved loads of the electric bill doing this. Ink express? Would you have everything else in store I need to start up?

[InkExpress]

Hi Joel, on the print side of things we cover pretty much what you need with the printer packages. The only other things you owuld need are- heat press, blanks and heat tape.

I sell directly on my website - www.inkexpress.co.uk or eBay. My eBay listings are better as they show more details photographs (my website is being rebuilt and should be much much better come October / November)

My eBay shop is here - https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/inktecmidlands

All my sublimation printer packages are here (A4 and A3 starting from £149.00 upwards) - https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/inktecmidlan ... 2474953017

Alex

[kbho]

Thank you UK printed mugs. Any advice would be great. I'm looking for some suppliers with a starter kit but I am struggling to find

I personally bought my SG3110 setup from DyeSublimationSupplies (Fairly certain they have an account in here), worked out around £400 as an entry level model.

I've seen some fairly good kits sold by CityInkExpress too, might be worth giving them a look.

[Joelbell1994]

Hi if been looking at the printers you use a4 Ricoh. If seen them online with ink and paper for around £400 Would this be right