Detailed description
This item is made from artwork to a tooling, so the first order carries a cost the repeat order does not. Understanding which part is tooling and which part is piece price is what makes the second quote comparable to the first.
Where it is used
Typical work is team and club kit, workwear and uniform programmes, promotional apparel, and retail branding on bags and caps. The garment decides the attachment: stretch fabrics take heat transfer, heavy woven takes a sewn edge, and anything that cannot be ironed takes an adhesive backing.
The material question
This is a heat-transfer construction: the design is printed or moulded onto a carrier film and applied with a press. Adhesion depends on pressure, temperature and dwell being right on your press, not only on the film, so the first application is a trial rather than a production step.
How it is quoted
Quotations separate the one-off tooling from the piece price, because they behave differently. Tooling is paid once and kept on file against your artwork; the piece price falls with quantity and with how many designs share one sheet.
What ships with the goods
Packing is polybag plus export carton, with designs bagged separately inside the carton. That is what keeps a six-design order from arriving as one mixed bag.
Checking it on arrival
Check the colour against the approved swatch in daylight, not under the inspection lamp. Moulded and printed colour drift in different directions, and a mixed order shows it as soon as two designs sit side by side.
If the attachment method is open, send a sample of the garment and we will tell you which of the three constructions will survive its wash cycle.
