How To Start A T-Shirt Business At Home With $500 (How to make T-shirts)

what's going on guys in this video we're gonna talk about how you can start a t-shirt business from home with as little as five hundred dollars let's not waste any time and get right into it check us out guys we're going by calm type in Jordan shirt and here you'll see a bunch of t-shirts so these shows will cost us around $2 to make you will need around five hundred dollars to buy all the equipment and you'll be able to make these at home these are gonna be professional quality store ready t-shirts so let's take a look at this t-shirt right here let's click on it so this seller didn't do a good job with the listing the image is horrible and the shirt is all wrinkled but still he sold 115 of these t-shirts for $20 and so he's making over $10 per shirt let's click right here and this is how many he sold so just today he sold two three four he sold for these t-shirts so off of one t-shirt he made $40 you guys can make a ton of different t-shirts from athletes and musicians to movies to much more so let's talk about how to make these shirts the first thing we're gonna do is go on a website called jittery shirts calm this is the website where we're gonna buy our blank t-shirts we're gonna buy the Gildan g500 t-shirt this is one of the most common t-shirts and it's good because it has a tare weight label so it's very convenient the show will cost around a dollar sixty cents the second thing you guys will need a special inkjet principle heat transfer paper you can get these in different sizes such as eight-and-a-half by 11 and 11 by 17 the small one is called a four and the large one is called a three you will need light transfer paper for white t-shirts and black transfer paper for dark t-shirts when you're first starting out you guys should buy these on Amazon and then you can buy the wholesale and Alibaba for around thirty cents a sheet for the large ones the next thing you guys will need is a Epson WUF 7710 printer and the fourth thing is a large heat press machine so the first thing we have to do is mirror the image let's click tools flip horizontal and now ready to print alright so when you put it on the white t-shirts we're gonna insert an 11 by 17 white paper into the printer an image I just want you guys to understand one thing even though I'm printing with a inkjet printer the ink will never smudge it will be impossible to make the income off the t-shirt the shirt will have to be destroyed this is gonna be a professional quality t-shirt the ink is gonna melt with a thin piece of vinyl onto the t-shirt so when the paper is printed it's not gonna look too bright but when it's on the shirt isn't look much better the next step is to cut out all the white parts the image you can do this with scissors or if you want better results you could do this with a paper cutter don't worry if you don't cut it perfectly because the white areas are barely seen my friend the image is now ready to be printed on the shirt all right guys the next step we're gonna take a blank shirt we're gonna preheat it to get the moisture out we're gonna put the part of the t-shirt which will print on onto the heat plate wait for the silicone paper and press it for about 10 seconds you guys see steam coming out that's fine don't worry and now we'll do the same thing for some bottom the next step is gonna take the image I'm gonna align it on the t-shirt Airport and then we're gonna use paper tape or you guys can use special heat transfer tape to take the image on shirt and now we're gonna transfer an image onto the t-shirt and now I'm going to press it at 300 let's say 50 degrees for around 15 seconds so right now is a very important part if you guys peel while the shirt is hot you're gonna get a matte finish if you guys have the shirt cool off and peel when it's cold the finish will be glossy for this shirt we're peeling it hot to have a matte finish make sure you take the tape off very carefully and as you guys can see we have a professional finished t-shirt if you guys look on the bottom right there's a very small white scratch this happened because the paper was scratched before printing so always make sure to inspect the paper prior to printing otherwise the prints come out perfectly every single time it's almost impossible to mess with the printer we're almost finished we just have to do one more thing and that's to stretch out the shirt and repress it one more time for about 10 seconds to make sure the shirt lasts a long time now we're gonna stretch a shirt out to make sure it lasts a long time when I press one more time put the silicone paper on and do a very quick five-second press the show zone alright guys now we're gonna do a black t-shirt it's nice on paper for this example we're gonna put the small image on the a4 paper so when you're printing on black t-shirts the image does not need to be mirrored we're gonna use our cutter to cut out all the white areas and that we're ready to eat president image so now I'm gonna press the black shirt quick ten-second press so the next step is to carefully peel the top layer [Music] and now we're going to carefully line the image onto the t-shirt now I'm gonna put it into the heat press and press the image press it for around ten seconds at 320 degrees Fahrenheit now with no move the silicone paper do a quick stretch and our shirt is done alright guys the next step is to make our shirt labels the best way to do this is by making plaster salt heat transfer labels you can get these for around 10 cents if you order in large quantities just make sure the image is mirrored before sending it to the seller we're gonna go into google and type in shirt label template right here you'll get a template for the labels you guys can Photoshop your own if you want we will download one of the sample labels and heat transfer it to the shirt I strongly recommend you guys get the classes on cue transfers if you want flawless results every time but if you guys want to do it yourself and get a special Oki laser printer and special heat transfer paper and try it out there is a learning curve to this and the results are not going to be as good as the plastisol labels let's carefully tear away the gilding tag alright guys so we're gonna place our label onto the shirt place the silicone paper over it and heat presses and now let me slowly peel the label when the shirt is finished you will package it in a plastic bag which will cost you around five to ten cents you will then take photos of the t-shirt let's talk about two very important parts of this business the first one is reinvesting money back into the business so for example if you start with $100 you can make 50 t-shirts and $2.00 each shirt if you sell those 50 t-shirts at $10 you will have $500 if you take the $500 you can make 250 t-shirts if you sell the 250 t-shirts at $10 you will have 2,500 and so on the second thing is you guys have to make t-shirts which don't have trademarks and copyrights this is very important if you want to have a long stable business get creative and make really cool t-shirts I hope you guys enjoyed the video if you did please leave a like to subscribe and if you have any questions please ask in the comments below I'll see you guys in the next one

Channel: Online Empires

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Keywords: how to make t shirts, how, to, make, shirt, printing, start, business, inkjet printer, heat press, machine, vinyl cutter, screen printing, dtg, direct to garment, tshirt, tshirts, sublimation, laser printer, oki, side hustle, John santos, cricut, ppd paper, photo paper direct

Id: EOpkP-R2CuU

Length: 10min 50sec (650 seconds)

Published: Sun May 17 2020