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I have been lurking here for a while and learnt so much from old posts that I haven't needed to ask any questions so thanks everyone :)

One thing I have learnt (the hard way) is that cheap kit gets you cheap results. It's not only a great printer that helps, but decent paper and mugs. Mugs from eBay were a massive fail, they worked but were so inconsistent, colours didn't look right etc.

Anyway, I'm sure of all know all that :)

Thanks again

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Hi Matt and welcome to the forum, looks like you've learned a valuable lesson already :-)

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welcome an as Justin says you have had that experience and aslong as you learned from it you wont make the same mistake again
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Hi Matt

Finally someone talking sense LOL!!!!

Bang on with cheap kit = cheap results.

I am glad you have learnt so much from this forum and look forward to you gaining experience and sharing your tips, tricks and ideas on the forum.
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socialgiraffe;55987 wrote:Hi Matt

Finally someone talking sense LOL!!!!

Bang on with cheap kit = cheap results.

I am glad you have learnt so much fromand look forward tnd sharing your tips, tricks and ideas on the forum.
i chalangin yo with my cheap setup :-)
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You are on :-)

My kit is so cheap even Lidl wont stock it!!!!
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Paul;56054 wrote:i chalangin yo with my cheap setup :-)
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Have to say my epson 435w cheap mug press and cheap flat bead press seem to working just fine here though.
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Thats not set up :-)

I say That success in sublimation is
50% in our knolage
25%% in gear
25% in blanks.
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hmmm

I would say its more like

70% Knowledge
20% Blanks
10% gear

My basis is because as Charlie says, his cheap stuff is producing sweet results and I suspect that is down to his learning and knowledge base. I have had conversations about cheap versus expensive with many people. As an example I have a Ricoh 7000 and will never consider anything else even though it cost over £700 new, its been brilliant. But for heat transfers I refuse to pay £500 +VAT for a recommended laser printer from The Magic Touch. Instead I purchased a £99.00 cheapie from PC World which has printed about 4000 prints so far without any hassle. Even if it went wrong tomorrow I could throw it away, buy another one and still be in pocket £300. If this happened 5 times then admittedly it would end up costing more than a TMT one. But by then I would have printed in excess of 20,000 heat transfers so I wouldn't care about the money :-)

20% blanks I think is being a bit generous as I do not think there are many hidden secrets these days on items. Personally I would cut this to 10% and add another section which would be 10% contacts
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