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Excellent video. Another half step, have a third party print your transfers. Example would be 613 originals or Ninja Transfers only equipment needed would be a heat press. Buy the printer only when the business grows into it.
I recommend NOT doing this. I have been doing print on demand since 2013 and I am mildly successful. I also have a home office with DTF/vinyl/equipment/printers/materials just sitting there collecting dust. Doing it yourself is just too time-consuming and labor intensive for too little a return. Maybe .01% will be successful and good for them, but don’t give false hope to the masses.
Thing with this is many people just don’t have the time to do this, you’re also very tied down. POD you can do this from anywhere in the world. You forget to mention the cons. Need to also balance your time taken to do all this and the price of the printer and ink. Rather stick with POD personally.
@@mywifequitherjobthen your profits are burned up paying people to work for you. As said POD just seems a far better option but happy this works for you.
@@mywifequitherjobpeople are making 7 figures doing POD on etsy alone ! Lol i mean therr are pros and cons to this but the point of POD is to have more freedom.
Good idea if your hands on type and dont mibd all the hassle of running your own POD game. I still prefer POD since I take vacations alot and fir long periods of time, hence I work for myself and POD allows me to be more versatile as I need to. I dont need to make a million $$ just need to live comfortably and put food on my family's table. God Bless thx fir sharing. 🙏
he's saying POD sucks at profit but it's free and suggest you to print it yourself but costly- like labor cost, material cost and equipment cost, marketing cost. you have to balance that if it's profitable(like ROI) because those printers cost alot
You left out driving to the Post Office for every single order. If you have a 9 - 5 job, you’ll be mailing during your lunch break because it’ll be closed when you get off work 👎
The post office will pick your package up for free from your home or office. Other services also pick up from home or office. In addition to that most workplaces have deliveries. I have had things mailed to my office and I have also mailed out things from the office. Being successful in business, you have to be a problem solver.
Printing and shipping all your own products as a side hustle is a full time job. As a reseller, I speak from experience. Factor in what your TIME is worth before creating yourself a blue collar assembly line job in your basement.
On the contrary, POD is the best way of saving on inventory. China made shirts is a pain the bu** Buy from a reputable provider near your place. Saves you time, money and all the hassle that comes with it. This is mostly BS and self serving..
No, sublimation printing uses a different ink. And when it comes to presses the design on shirts, you can only use a 100% polyester shirt with sublimation ink.
POD is a smart MVP stage for most, it should not be a permanent stage for your business. It allows you to test a business idea with min investing in printers, staff, logistics, liability.... If your business idea works, then you transition to your own warehouse to handle all shipping yourself. Almost all successful print on demand transition to self print. If most people start with your recommendation of buying a printer, many will fail and lose money without testing their idea.
Anther alertantive is get your tshirt blanks but you can buy DTF transfers form transfer printers. Use thier gang sheets to keep your prices margins down.
Too much work and I don’t wanna breathe in the fumes from the transfers, which some say may cause cancer. Also you have to hustle for customers. How are you going to have time for all this if you work?
What I don’t understand with these POD companies is why they charge such high prices for their Ts I used to buy Australian made cotton Ts for $5 The quality was very good
... But if your printing your own shirts, then you are limited by the amount of time you have per day. If you start selling lots of shirts you will have to buy more machines and hire people to run the. This will cut into your profit just as much as Print-On-Demand does.
Yes that is what is called GROWING a business. I started off doing everything by myself and could not make more then $72k in one year. Once I started hiring people to help with the work I was able to grow it into a million dollar a year business. I had 8 people working and helping get things done. You have to decide what direction you want to go in.
What if I want to be the POD company, but just for 20 or so small businesses? How should I start and get the word out to some clients? I would like to offer custom messages to the recipient (for free like florists) and a gift box (extra charge).
I've been in business for 30 yrs straight. Create some samples or examples so the potential client can see how it would be a benefit for them to offer it to their customers. Then start knocking on doors and visit all the potential businesses. It's all about relationships. You have to do the work of meeting with each owner and show them what you have to offer. Then once you slowly but surely start getting clients you will grow from there. But you have to put in the work. That's how it's done.
Great if you have the time and space to store all the shirts and printer as well as print them yourself. The lower profit margins are worth it for the convenience of someone else doing the work for you.
Great vid! I am having a horrible time trying to get setup at amazon seller marketplace for Printify products. I’ve been trying to get my first product listed for several months, going back-and-forth with email and chat and phone tech-support. So your vid gives me a few options to think about. Can you please share your recommendations for low-cost blank T-shirts from China (or US)? Thanks again, and keep up the good work!
Sounds good but you’ll just end up being a warehouse with all the colors and sizes you need to buy. There are minimum orders for Tshirts and you need to cover all the sizes
The clothes on Printful are either heavily overpriced or cheap plastic low quality stuff with bad reviews. Gelato is almost as expensive as Printful but offering even less as a whole. Such a nonsense.
Good info. Dislike for half knowledge ( and everyone say, half knowledge is always dangerous) and too much dragging. Next time try to be BETTER and HONEST to yourself & your regular viewers. It was my first time watching your video. If it would have been full information about the topic, I would have subscribed you instantly after this video. But you lost one sub..
Lost one more subscriber too, from one I saw a while ago for the same reason. Others caller him on his 1/2 truths aka Gate Keeper, so I started watching this one to see if he at least tried to change. He’s the same… for algorithm proposes only.
This is an honest video. That is amazing these days. We have determine through testing the same results and can confirm that the information is in fact true. There are other white toner laser printers on the market for less. Do your research. Thank you for such an honest strait forward information filled with useful information!
You can get a lot of Print on Demand products with a 40-dollar margin- leggings-canvas-blankets to name a few. Why just talk about T-shirts and also mugs, badges, and stickers, which are low-margin items. Just do some research on high margin items from POD suppliers like Printify, Gelato and Shine-on. Buying equipment is not the way to go.
Oh naysayers one thing. I know a guy that made $185,000 doing this but selling the shirts at a mobile stall on the main street of our city. Its true. Wouldnt work now after COVID as the place has collapsed but it did work when people had $$ downtown.
This is no bueno for me. All of those tshirts in different sizes have to be stored somewhere. You have to buy min order to get those prices plus shipping. Lot that was left out in this video. I'll stick with Merch or Printful thank you😉
Do not get into printing on your own. Transfers including full color digitally printed transfers can be done for very cheap prices. After this you can heat press the image onto other surfaces including clothing, mugs, and whatever else.
Yes I would love to print art prints myself & the printer is only $1000 - I can get one tomorrow. But I am in New Zealand. Factor in the shipping time & cost I am better off with POD surely.
In your calculations for sourcing blank t-shirts from China and then printing at home you forgot to include labor costs which can be substantial. In a meantime, labor costs for sourcing, production, technical maintenance, s&h, etc. are already included in POD base price.
@@aularje And you value yourself at $0/hr? :) That's first. And second, the small business of the author of this channel has employees. He mentioned it more than once.
Labor is the key insight that is obviously missing from this video. Why not share your metrics and labor costs on prints per hour for white toner prints or transfer prints? All the other "hidden" costs of diy can quickly stem from there; How many "white toner" or "dtf" prints can you make per hour? How much time in cutting, how much time in pressing? How much time in folding? How much time in packaging and shipping? How much do you pay for your employees per hour? How much training time to onboard a new employee? how much in payroll tax? How much in benefits? How much time in purchasing supplies? How much time in keeping inventory? What is your error rate, what is your damage rate? Ink Costs? Machine maintenance time? All of these hidden costs are built into POD pricing, but oddly missing from this video. Make apples to apples comparisons to improve trust in your recommendations.
POD is so successful because you don’t have to handle inventory. In this business that you are explaining, inventory will be handled by yourselves and that’s not easy for most of us especially when the particular SKU is not finding any buyers. As for us POD is concerned DESIGN is your product and there is nothing you are going to loose of the design is not receptive. You can simply move ahead and come up new good designs.
@gopiraj "...POD is concerned [with what? ...] DESIGN is your product and there is nothing you are going to loose [lose] of [if] the design is not receptive...come up [with] new good designs." That barely makes sense.
What about all the other costs you failed to mention? Plus if you did have a popular design and started to sell quickly how many orders an hour could you do? Seems like you would be spending more time behind a printer than creating a design.
There is no way you can much the speed and scalablity of a POD like Printful across borders and product ranges with your model, plus the added cost in time and money to yourself to manage and pay a printing team not to mention the maintenance of printer, coz you have on of each if it breaks down, you are out of production.
I don't know what else to tell you. I'm doing it. If your machine breaks, you have pod as a backup. But if you're worried about scale, that means you are making a ton of money
Based on this video, I'm interested in your opinion on private labeling when starting out and using POD, as you've described. Most pros and cons seem to be obvious; however, if you want to make a reasonable profit on t-shirts, you're looking at retail prices in the range of $30+
I'm pleased that you outlined the process from moment zero because it mirrors what was going on in my mind as I watched. Do you have advice about the other machines, such as the presses you use? Also, is your shop in a dedicated commercial location or in a basement or garage? And thanks again for just giving away such value.
I use a hottronix fusion press. But the ONLY reason to buy it is because it makes white toner printing much easier. Otherwise, you can get by with a cheap Chinese press
Don't you just love it when the SAME guy says POD is great (hurray for Gelato) in a another video, then turns around and says "uh, uh not a good idea!" in another video on tje same channel? If you really MEAN what you say then why don't you REMOVE your previous POD praising content from TH-cam? That will only be fair. But in reality you won't becsuse of the money you are still making on youtube from those videos, however little or much it may be. But that to you is ultimately more important than removing information that will confuse and misguide people.
@@mywifequitherjob I agree marketplaces and opportunities fluctuate but why keep obsolete self-contradictory content circulating on YT? Not saying you are the only one who does that but not fair on viewers. At the least I would link the old videos to the new updated material so people know things have changed since the time of posting the old video on POD. Those who don't get to watch both your videos will continue under the wrong impression that POD is still a great option.
@@AffectionateSeaOtter Can you specifically point out the contradictory information for me please? My viewpoint on POD has been fairly consistent over the years. It all depends on how much money you have and your income goals.
@@mywifequitherjob After watching the process you go through to print 1 design onto 1 t-shirt, I find it hard to believe you can print 1 t-shirt every 18 seconds.....Very misleading. It looks like several minutes per shirt at best. Not mention, who works for $20 per hour that will turn out quality work??
I have to say one thing I watched a couple of your videos Steve and I like how you summarize at the end "How to do it" Also every Video I watch, gives me another expression like "POD" I love How you actually display the costs and say it is not worth it. I asked myself the question : Would I pay 31Dollars for a shirt online ? No I would not especially, if I can go to a store and try it on~! So what you recommended makes lots of sense 👍👍, to print at home and actually make a profit ~!!
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You say don't use POD then the first thing you say is you need pod.
@@paulahawthorne7807 You aren't making any sense.
@@metternich05 neither did you.
"Listen don't waste your time with POD services, instead give me your money for my course" - There I summed up your video for everyone.
Also buy this printer for $7,000
@@rayyecko652 He probably got the printer for free for promoting it.
Thanks for saving my time
Thumbed down. Steve Chou is a knowledgeable pro to learn from.
@@bobbyw1074
Excellent video. Another half step, have a third party print your transfers. Example would be 613 originals or Ninja Transfers only equipment needed would be a heat press. Buy the printer only when the business grows into it.
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and make the investment, especially if you can recoup it much faster.
I recommend NOT doing this. I have been doing print on demand since 2013 and I am mildly successful. I also have a home office with DTF/vinyl/equipment/printers/materials just sitting there collecting dust. Doing it yourself is just too time-consuming and labor intensive for too little a return. Maybe .01% will be successful and good for them, but don’t give false hope to the masses.
The man giving advice in this video is a multi-millionaire. So, I'd rather take advice from him than you. 😑
@@rockon8174let us know how that works out for you.
So don't read the comments - that's my advice but I'm not a multi-millionaire so you will be ignoring it....
@@rockon8174 I know many douche bags that are multi millionaires. Even crazy people so its not a sound criteria for judgement of facts.
Thats not quite right, you should mix and match both models. If you don't want all that eqipment, give it to me.
Thing with this is many people just don’t have the time to do this, you’re also very tied down. POD you can do this from anywhere in the world. You forget to mention the cons. Need to also balance your time taken to do all this and the price of the printer and ink. Rather stick with POD personally.
It depends on your goals. If all you want to do is make some spending money, stick with pod. If you want to make 7, 8 figures, you need higher profits
Yes kind of like do you want to be a worker or do you want someone to work for you.
@@mywifequitherjob or you can make X amount of dollars from POD, and then invest it so it grows for you.
@@mywifequitherjobthen your profits are burned up paying people to work for you. As said POD just seems a far better option but happy this works for you.
@@mywifequitherjobpeople are making 7 figures doing POD on etsy alone ! Lol i mean therr are pros and cons to this but the point of POD is to have more freedom.
Good idea if your hands on type and dont mibd all the hassle of running your own POD game. I still prefer POD since I take vacations alot and fir long periods of time, hence I work for myself and POD allows me to be more versatile as I need to. I dont need to make a million $$ just need to live comfortably and put food on my family's table. God Bless thx fir sharing. 🙏
I wouldn't like to see them taking my profit margin either, though.
The reason people start businesses online is to free up their time also. I don’t want to be a tshirt printer personally.
he's saying POD sucks at profit but it's free and suggest you to print it yourself but costly- like labor cost, material cost and equipment cost, marketing cost. you have to balance that if it's profitable(like ROI) because those printers cost alot
You left out driving to the Post Office for every single order. If you have a 9 - 5 job, you’ll be mailing during your lunch break because it’ll be closed when you get off work 👎
The post office will pick your package up for free from your home or office. Other services also pick up from home or office. In addition to that most workplaces have deliveries. I have had things mailed to my office and I have also mailed out things from the office. Being successful in business, you have to be a problem solver.
@@kaycon4823 - What you are suggesting is not practical. If I tried that stunt at my workplace I'd get FIRED!
Not all jobs or workplaces are the same.
you print out a label at home, stick it on the package, then drop it in the mailbox. Open post office not needed.
@@kaycon4823 That's exactly why this advice is NOT practical. Take a risk at your own discretion.
Printing and shipping all your own products as a side hustle is a full time job. As a reseller, I speak from experience. Factor in what your TIME is worth before creating yourself a blue collar assembly line job in your basement.
What's the URL of your shop?
What are the best quality shirts? Which printing techniques make the best quality garments?
Very little upfront risk he says? I think paying for $3500 printer is quite the risk.
Start out with pod, then print the winners... It's a very safe strategy. How can I be more clear?
what a printer sales pitch ... other than that good general info on print on demand
On the contrary, POD is the best way of saving on inventory. China made shirts is a pain the bu** Buy from a reputable provider near your place. Saves you time, money and all the hassle that comes with it. This is mostly BS and self serving..
Where do you think your local provider is getting their blank shirts from?
I don't want words or pictures on my belongings, so I would never buy POD merchandise. For that reason, I can't create phrases or pictures for POD.
ok
It seems to me you're mainly promoting the printer.
Bingo!
is this sublimination printing I hard it wasn't very good in the long run, let me know
No, sublimation printing uses a different ink. And when it comes to presses the design on shirts, you can only use a 100% polyester shirt with sublimation ink.
nice try to sell a factory printer ))
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POD is a smart MVP stage for most, it should not be a permanent stage for your business. It allows you to test a business idea with min investing in printers, staff, logistics, liability.... If your business idea works, then you transition to your own warehouse to handle all shipping yourself. Almost all successful print on demand transition to self print.
If most people start with your recommendation of buying a printer, many will fail and lose money without testing their idea.
Steve did say NOT to do that.
Anther alertantive is get your tshirt blanks but you can buy DTF transfers form transfer printers. Use thier gang sheets to keep your prices margins down.
Both business models have their pros and cons
But, in one model, you can make an 8x return better than the other!
Too much work and I don’t wanna breathe in the fumes from the transfers, which some say may cause cancer. Also you have to hustle for customers. How are you going to have time for all this if you work?
Everything is work - no easy way - depends on what u want to spend ur time on -
accurate
What I don’t understand with these POD companies is why they charge such high prices for their Ts
I used to buy Australian made cotton Ts for $5
The quality was very good
... But if your printing your own shirts, then you are limited by the amount of time you have per day. If you start selling lots of shirts you will have to buy more machines and hire people to run the. This will cut into your profit just as much as Print-On-Demand does.
No. 😑
@rockon8174 how no?
Yes that is what is called GROWING a business. I started off doing everything by myself and could not make more then $72k in one year. Once I started hiring people to help with the work I was able to grow it into a million dollar a year business. I had 8 people working and helping get things done. You have to decide what direction you want to go in.
You don't understand business or economics.
True, but the PoD business is mostly passive and localization free as all you need is your laptop and internet access.
What if I want to be the POD company, but just for 20 or so small businesses? How should I start and get the word out to some clients?
I would like to offer custom messages to the recipient (for free like florists) and a gift box (extra charge).
I've been in business for 30 yrs straight. Create some samples or examples so the potential client can see how it would be a benefit for them to offer it to their customers. Then start knocking on doors and visit all the potential businesses. It's all about relationships. You have to do the work of meeting with each owner and show them what you have to offer. Then once you slowly but surely start getting clients you will grow from there. But you have to put in the work. That's how it's done.
Great if you have the time and space to store all the shirts and printer as well as print them yourself. The lower profit margins are worth it for the convenience of someone else doing the work for you.
very useful suggestion , thanks.
whoever's providing you the information needs to do more research.
Wow too much for me, to learn all the printers! I'm glad you can do it, great alternative.
Great vid! I am having a horrible time trying to get setup at amazon seller marketplace for Printify products. I’ve been trying to get my first product listed for several months, going back-and-forth with email and chat and phone tech-support. So your vid gives me a few options to think about. Can you please share your recommendations for low-cost blank T-shirts from China (or US)? Thanks again, and keep up the good work!
Just purchase ganged DTF sheets. Ignore the rest of this video.
Have you explored using a heat press instead?
I use printful for non china made tshirts.
Sounds good but you’ll just end up being a warehouse with all the colors and sizes you need to buy. There are minimum orders for Tshirts and you need to cover all the sizes
I BET THEY WILL PAY $50 OR MORE FOR ART WORK SHIRTS
The clothes on Printful are either heavily overpriced or cheap plastic low quality stuff with bad reviews. Gelato is almost as expensive as Printful but offering even less as a whole. Such a nonsense.
So basically, you are promoting this printer?
Exactly 🤔
Another great video 👍
Thank you very much for sharing this information. Do you know which supplier makes custom shape pillow?
Merchize does have custom shape pillow
@@soon.tobemillionaire I heard they also offer free product photography services, is that true?
Good info. Dislike for half knowledge ( and everyone say, half knowledge is always dangerous) and too much dragging. Next time try to be BETTER and HONEST to yourself & your regular viewers. It was my first time watching your video. If it would have been full information about the topic, I would have subscribed you instantly after this video. But you lost one sub..
Lost one more subscriber too, from one I saw a while ago for the same reason. Others caller him on his 1/2 truths aka Gate Keeper, so I started watching this one to see if he at least tried to change. He’s the same… for algorithm proposes only.
Same. I know little bit about POD and this guy is youtuber who wants you to click on his links... Its all
This is an honest video. That is amazing these days. We have determine through testing the same results and can confirm that the information is in fact true. There are other white toner laser printers on the market for less. Do your research. Thank you for such an honest strait forward information filled with useful information!
He probably did and found that dollar for dollar his may have been the better option for him. There are other considerations many times besides money.
This printer is 7k us, but 12k in Australia
At 50 I’m looking a business I can build from home. Love how your realistic approach on this but will your method works for some from UK?
You can get a lot of Print on Demand products with a 40-dollar margin- leggings-canvas-blankets to name a few. Why just talk about T-shirts and also mugs, badges, and stickers, which are low-margin items. Just do some research on high margin items from POD suppliers like Printify, Gelato and Shine-on. Buying equipment is not the way to go.
Print on demand is flooded, too many people doing it. Because people think it is easy...
Then why redbubble collapse?
Oh naysayers one thing. I know a guy that made $185,000 doing this but selling the shirts at a mobile stall on the main street of our city. Its true. Wouldnt work now after COVID as the place has collapsed but it did work when people had $$ downtown.
This is no bueno for me. All of those tshirts in different sizes have to be stored somewhere. You have to buy min order to get those prices plus shipping. Lot that was left out in this video. I'll stick with Merch or Printful thank you😉
You wouldn't have that problem if you didn't buy a cheap DTF printer from China. When you buy cheap you get cheap results.
Do not get into printing on your own. Transfers including full color digitally printed transfers can be done for very cheap prices. After this you can heat press the image onto other surfaces including clothing, mugs, and whatever else.
This DYI method doesn't include all the time it would take marketing everywhere to try to get people to your Shopify, or similar, store.
Now, I have another option to scale my shirts. Thanks for the info. This one is a keeper.
Why not buy dtf with your designs and just press them when you make a sale.
No machines no BS
Just found you on youtube. You are super clear, seem super honest and I really appreciate your experiences bad and good.
Not all of us can afford a $7000/$3500 printer.
Yes I would love to print art prints myself & the printer is only $1000 - I can get one tomorrow. But I am in New Zealand. Factor in the shipping time & cost I am better off with POD surely.
Do you know whether us or aussie have a good POD company?
In your calculations for sourcing blank t-shirts from China and then printing at home you forgot to include labor costs which can be substantial. In a meantime, labor costs for sourcing, production, technical maintenance, s&h, etc. are already included in POD base price.
In a small business, the labor Is You
@@aularje And you value yourself at $0/hr? :) That's first. And second, the small business of the author of this channel has employees. He mentioned it more than once.
Labor is the key insight that is obviously missing from this video. Why not share your metrics and labor costs on prints per hour for white toner prints or transfer prints?
All the other "hidden" costs of diy can quickly stem from there;
How many "white toner" or "dtf" prints can you make per hour? How much time in cutting, how much time in pressing? How much time in folding? How much time in packaging and shipping? How much do you pay for your employees per hour? How much training time to onboard a new employee? how much in payroll tax? How much in benefits? How much time in purchasing supplies? How much time in keeping inventory? What is your error rate, what is your damage rate? Ink Costs? Machine maintenance time?
All of these hidden costs are built into POD pricing, but oddly missing from this video. Make apples to apples comparisons to improve trust in your recommendations.
I believe he said "printed" from China.
wow, the amount of free knowledge you share. deserve subs 👏
Yes I love your thinking
POD is so successful because you don’t have to handle inventory. In this business that you are explaining, inventory will be handled by yourselves and that’s not easy for most of us especially when the particular SKU is not finding any buyers. As for us POD is concerned DESIGN is your product and there is nothing you are going to loose of the design is not receptive. You can simply move ahead and come up new good designs.
@gopiraj "...POD is concerned [with what? ...] DESIGN is your product and there is nothing you are going to loose [lose] of [if] the design is not receptive...come up [with] new good designs." That barely makes sense.
What about all the other costs you failed to mention? Plus if you did have a popular design and started to sell quickly how many orders an hour could you do? Seems like you would be spending more time behind a printer than creating a design.
The printing is fast and we can churn out a bunch per hour. But worse case scenario if you are overwhelmed, you just pod the excess
You can get lower cost tshirts with POD that are still good quality
There is no way you can much the speed and scalablity of a POD like Printful across borders and product ranges with your model, plus the added cost in time and money to yourself to manage and pay a printing team not to mention the maintenance of printer, coz you have on of each if it breaks down, you are out of production.
I don't know what else to tell you. I'm doing it. If your machine breaks, you have pod as a backup. But if you're worried about scale, that means you are making a ton of money
Based on this video, I'm interested in your opinion on private labeling when starting out and using POD, as you've described. Most pros and cons seem to be obvious; however, if you want to make a reasonable profit on t-shirts, you're looking at retail prices in the range of $30+
Hard to make a profit at that price range.
Not really helpful for majority of people internationally. It requires A LOT of WORK.
Ugh! I hate it when stuff takes work...
My Friend used to print his shirts and now only uses printful.
What about the time spent operating the equipment and driving to the post office? Are the profit margins still a lot better?
No one has to drive to the post office. They do pickups
Amazing, a clasd on manufacturing and business
Fantastic video!
I use print in demand to easily sell one design and profit roughly $400.
Per month or week.
I'm pleased that you outlined the process from moment zero because it mirrors what was going on in my mind as I watched.
Do you have advice about the other machines, such as the presses you use?
Also, is your shop in a dedicated commercial location or in a basement or garage?
And thanks again for just giving away such value.
I use a hottronix fusion press. But the ONLY reason to buy it is because it makes white toner printing much easier. Otherwise, you can get by with a cheap Chinese press
@@mywifequitherjob Thank you.
POD is great
Don't you just love it when the SAME guy says POD is great (hurray for Gelato) in a another video, then turns around and says "uh, uh not a good idea!" in another video on tje same channel? If you really MEAN what you say then why don't you REMOVE your previous POD praising content from TH-cam? That will only be fair. But in reality you won't becsuse of the money you are still making on youtube from those videos, however little or much it may be. But that to you is ultimately more important than removing information that will confuse and misguide people.
Was just thinking the samr😂
Huh? I'm always very realistic with these business models... Pod is easy but won't make you life changing money. Happy to clarify anything
The other thing to consider is that everything is constantly changing. What's good now could change in 6 months
@@mywifequitherjob I agree marketplaces and opportunities fluctuate but why keep obsolete self-contradictory content circulating on YT? Not saying you are the only one who does that but not fair on viewers. At the least I would link the old videos to the new updated material so people know things have changed since the time of posting the old video on POD. Those who don't get to watch both your videos will continue under the wrong impression that POD is still a great option.
@@AffectionateSeaOtter Can you specifically point out the contradictory information for me please? My viewpoint on POD has been fairly consistent over the years. It all depends on how much money you have and your income goals.
Forgot that you are the labor. And time is money. So what's your time worth to print and ship?
Let's say one person can churn out 200 per hour, for our products that's a wage of 4000 per hour. You can pay someone 20 an hour(or less) to do it
@@mywifequitherjob After watching the process you go through to print 1 design onto 1 t-shirt, I find it hard to believe you can print 1 t-shirt every 18 seconds.....Very misleading. It looks like several minutes per shirt at best. Not mention, who works for $20 per hour that will turn out quality work??
what about pictures
GREAT and informative video!
Some POD, you can print on all the surface, hoodies, tee-shirt, etc... You know it. Everyone knows it.
What POD offers all over print on cotton shirts?
I couldn’t find any
Those who can "do". Those who can't, "teach". (and charge like a bull for their "courses". LOL
I have to say one thing I watched a couple of your videos Steve and I like how you summarize at the end "How to do it" Also every Video I watch, gives me another expression like "POD"
I love How you actually display the costs and say it is not worth it. I asked myself the question : Would I pay 31Dollars for a shirt online ? No I would not especially, if I can go to a store and try it on~! So what you recommended makes lots of sense 👍👍, to print at home and actually make a profit ~!!