Uninet iColor 800 HONEST and IN-DEPTH Review | White Toner Laser Transfer Process + WASH TEST

what's up my name is rich and in this video right here we're going to be doing a review of uni net 800 white toner transfer printer toner did i say the word toner i don't know eye color 800 w w i believe stands for white who knows but this is going to be an honest and straight up um real review because i've been using this printer for the past two almost three months now who knows i told you i was gonna post a video but if i posted a video immediately after the unboxing it would not have been an honest review because i haven't been using the printer hands-on however i've been using this printer dang there every day we're about to break it down i've also ran through a full set of toner already so we can even do some rough calculations on how much toner it costs and all of that good stuff so i think this is going to be a good video because you're going to get the pros and you're also going to get the cons so let's go ahead and get straight into it so first and foremost what is the eye color 800 white toner transfer printer so in short it prints out a laser sheet of paper that we can use to press the design onto a t-shirt it works just like a regular house printer just a little bit bigger looks like a work office printer because i'm pretty sure it is with a little bit of modifications to it the thing about it that interests me is the speed that it prints out prints out quite quickly so let's go ahead and dive into the process of printing a t-shirt and in the end of this video we'll talk about the pros and cons of this printer and uh before we even get there i discussed the pricing in the unboxing but i'll go ahead and mention it again you'll see this printer the tabletop version without the bottom uh rolling cart it's 8995 with the rolling cart it's 995 dollars and i don't know if their rolling cart is worth a grand but um it's kind of one of those things it's like where else you gonna buy right um i think i'm already mentioning a con but a grand for the cart is a little pretty crazy right but we'll talk more about that a little later let's just go ahead and print some t-shirts out let's see how it's done all right so one thing we do want to take notice the software eye color pro rip is on a windows computer and primarily i use a mac for managing my orders doing design and all of that however i do have the windows computer hooked up because i was editing a video i used my windows computer mainly to edit videos but now i also use it for the rip software for the printer at first this was an issue for me because i didn't want to get used to using a windows computer again but over time i realized it's not that big of an issue all i did was create a network and i just made a folder on the network where i shared the designs across both computers so it's very easy to manage the files and then i just have the windows computer running the software dedicated to print okay so now i'm getting the designs prepped and ready for print so one thing to keep in mind when designing your t-shirt prints make sure you go ahead and design it in the size that you would like to print it in this will make it a whole lot easier whenever you drag it over to your pro rip so let's say if we already had the design ready to go we just click and drag it on over to the pro rip and it'll be ready to go however this design right here is much too large for the actual size i need so i have to resize it in the actual size that i need and before we do so we need to figure out what size paper we want to print on as the printer can print on multiple sizes so let's go ahead and check out what paper size we're going to be printing on so for this one right here we're going to be doing a standard 11 by 17. i've been using this one quite a bit there's different medias there's different sizes i know there's a whole lot of variables um however for me i like to keep it simple once i find something i like then i just stick to that for the rest of my life i guess but there's different sizes so we can print real big real small just different types of media you can do tattoos you can do metallics we'll get into that later let's try to keep it simple but there's just so many options available there it's hard to keep simple but let's go ahead and still get the t-shirt going this video is very loaded because there's so many loaded things that you can do alright so let's get the design up um let's go ahead and make one of them 11 by 17 so that it's really big okay i got the print files ready let's go ahead and click print and see how it looks okay i went ahead and click print um i believe it can do 45 sheets per minute if i'm wrong i'll put right here to correct that amount so let's go ahead and see what happens so [Music] okay so we got our three items printed out i'm waiting on the heat presses to warm up before then let's go ahead and give this a quick look so this is one of the items that we printed is the large one 11 by 17 is the actual size of this sheet of paper um so the design itself is probably like 10 and a half by 16 or so however it's pretty big right however if you saw my last video i mentioned it can feel kind of papery i've realized it feels like that if you're just printing a solid image in a very large format so um this right here does have a bit of a grunge texture um so that does help on that a little bit and i do say just a little bit however i am going to over exaggerate that it feels like paper as a print it's not going to feel like ink on a t-shirt i'll let you know that right now but we're going to discuss that a lot more at the end of this video um another thing i do want to point out is the fact that that had a large solid black print right this one does but it does have a grunge texture so that does help out a little distressed effect on it but this one right here uh the software itself the pro rip has a tool called knock me out black so if we're printing on a black t-shirt why would we want the black to be printed um so this one right here already took all the black out for us we just clicked on the software we said we want to remove all of the black on this image so it removed all of the black for us and now something like this does not fill as paper because it's not a large print just solid prints in smaller areas so it is a little more unnoticeable a design like this printed on a shirt feels much much better so you do want to keep that in mind when you are making your designs okay so um let's go ahead and get our shirts out [Applause] oh i forgot to mention the third print all right so this one right here is how i typically print t-shirts so these 11 by 17 sheets are about four bucks a pop i don't print every customer's picture jumbo size right so that cost me about four bucks per print plus toner which is around 15 cents or so for this printer i believe we'll get into that later we're gonna get into all the details later this right here is how i usually print t-shirts i would gank two designs onto one sheet so this ends up costing me about two bucks per design so this entire sheet is four bucks but it ended up costing me about two bucks per t-shirt print right so now we have two designs on this one sheet right here we have one right here and we have one right here that we could do so let's grab our t-shirts you know what i don't know why i said let's grab our t-shirts we have to do the a to b process first so these aren't exactly transfers yet at the moment they're just a toner on a clear sheet of paper so these are what you call a a sheet what we need to do is combine the a sheet with the b sheet uh the b sheet carries all the adhesive um i don't know all the technical terms but it carries the adhesive on this sheet of paper right here and uh what we're going to do is merge the two together so all the adhesive is on the print area and then it'll be ready to press onto a t-shirt so let's go ahead and turn this into a transfer alright so now i'm at the heat press this is going to be a two-minute process at 310 degrees i know a lot of people always have issues with the heat press um and the merging and all of that so each box that the media comes in shows the uh temperature and the pressure that you should set it so i've tried what's said to be medium pressure um for two minutes and i was struggling with that when i first got it it didn't work for me and then i tried to do uh low pressure which i saw online um and that didn't work for me neither so what i did was just do super heavy pressure and that ended up working for me and ever since then i've been getting consistent results and i've never had an issue so i have the a sheet and i also have the b sheet laying on top so the b sheet is the adhesive the hd is the actual print design all right so we're going to put that on top and we're going to fold a little tab right here so it's easy for us to peel off now we're going to take a piece of parchment and we're going to take a piece of craft paper and lay it directly on top and now i'm just going to push it down and we're going to wait two minutes so when this heat press comes up you're going to want to make sure you either have some gloves or some kind of rag to uh hold the paper down because it's going to be super hot all right here we go going to take our craft paper off so now this part right here um i usually don't have a problem with this top sheet it's the bottom part it's going to be really hot so what i do is take the rag and use that to press onto the bottom sheet so stay still and i just do a nice even tight pull all the way across now i'm probably covering up the camera but i'm not going to stop so now we get a nice smooth pull so let me go ahead and demonstrate that to you again without actually doing it just yet so let's take our second sheet um let's compare the two right so if you can see how it's white that means there's adhesive on it right here this is just the actual toner print so let me demonstrate that peeling process so i so this is the design this is the top b sheet this is the a sheet this is the b all right so let's imagine we already did a two minute press once the two minute press is over we're going to want to use this right here hold down the a sheet and whenever we peel the b sheet we want to make sure all right right here it's nice and smooth and tight and what we want to do is stay consistent we just want to peel the whole time because if we stop there's not going to be a consistent amount of adhesive on that eight sheet so we want to make sure we stay as consistent as possible when we are peeling away all right so let's go ahead and push that down [Music] alright so that is two minutes right there let me go ahead and talk to you guys about something real quick so even though this is two minutes the other part is about 30 seconds you pressing onto a t-shirt now two minutes may sound like a long time but after the first couple presses or so i usually already have um transfers ready to go i'm usually able to do the 30 second press on three t-shirts before this two-minute process is done if that makes sense um i'll try to explain that later at the end as well so um the end of this video it's gonna be pretty packed with information that you only receive from somebody who's been using this printer for the past two three months um so this one right here is about to be ready and then we have one more that we need to press and then we can press them all onto t-shirts all right so let's go ahead and peel this one okay put that over there gonna want to do this immediately as well i don't know if i mentioned that we want to do it while it's still hot if it cools down we're gonna have issues all right there we go nice and smooth and oh gotta mess something up ooh it's hot all right here we go again as you can see nice solid white except for the distressed print areas which is not supposed to have anything printed regardless so this distressed effect also helps out if you messed up it hides it all right so we also have this one right here which is the last one before we start pressing onto a t-shirt so as i've mentioned we're gonna take the b sheet put on top of the a sheet okay so one thing i do want to mention um and i know i'm making this look really easy right now i know a lot of people have a hard time with actual merry process and i know it's easy to get discouraged when you first try to do it all right so it took me about 10 hours to learn it i spent five hours on it the first day i got the printer and spent five hours on it the next day i got a printer and it took me about three to almost 400 bucks worth of sheets of prints that i threw away it took me about a hundred prints so about four dollars a pop you know so somewhere around there that i just ended up throwing away so there was a learning curve however um with this process after the learning curve it was consistent it was consistent and it's easy to teach someone else how to do it and once they know how to do it it's smooth selling but that learning curve i'm telling you it's just that learning curve don't get discouraged boom all right now we got three transfers ready to go really four of them okay so now we have our transfers ready and why do i have a pair of scissors well this is the trimming process we have to trim the edges however if you have one of those guillotines you can stack them all together and just cut them all off at once all the edges off at once however i don't have one of those maybe i should get one of those or another shirts i've already done with this thing anyways you just take your scissors and it's hard to see but um see this is one of the corners that i uh folded you can see where some of the adhesive get on there right so it usually gets on all of the edges even though you can't really see it so you're going to want to trim it down so let's take this right here [Music] now this one is ready to go all the edges are gone i don't want to do the same thing and for this one right here since it is two different prints all right now let's go ahead and press these onto t-shirts okay so this process right here is 30 seconds we'll go ahead and line this up make sure we're nice and straight and even i don't know if i like this one on here yeah this one we're gonna need to use for the black shirt off um you're supposed to put the parchment paper on top of it to protect its uh t-shirt but when you're doing a whole bunch of shirts at once that is one extra step that i do not do 30 seconds 310 degrees [Applause] now we're gonna have to take this off and let it cool down for about five minutes or so okay so now we got this one cooling down while that one's cooling down we go ahead and press more t-shirts so if we're just doing one t-shirt at a time it might not be worth it because there is a lot of waiting time however so since this is cooling down if we're just waiting on one t-shirt it might not be worth our time however since it's cooling down we already have another one ready to go we just go ahead and start pressing so for example as soon as i press this shirt i go ahead and go over to the outer heat press to check on those a to b merry process if i have more sheets that i need to marry so it's always a continuous thing there's always something to do and those waiting periods of times it's not really an issue all right so like i said now this one's ready to go this one's ready to cool down and wait while that one's cooling down we go ahead and grab another t-shirt and we go ahead and make another press grab our transfer sheet throw it directly on top and go ahead and press it and if i have to worry about an a to b transfer processor i head on over there go ahead and press that down for two minutes i come back over here i'm usually able to do three t-shirts while that two minutes is going does that make sense i hope it does i really hope it does so i usually go ahead and get as many shirts done as possible and by the time by the time i get done with a stack of shirts then all the shirts that are cooling down will be cooled down and ready for the next process okay so now this process right here can also be difficult they can all be difficult actually so um it just requires a little bit of technique a little bit of a learning curve that's practically it so this is the first shirt we did it's pretty cool down now we need to peel this off sometimes it sticks sometimes it's hard to pull um so there's a little bit of a technique to it we want to keep this nice and close and tight as possible when we peel as you can see right there it's peeling the shirt off too we don't necessarily want to snatch it because the design can come off with it um so what i usually do is keep it nice and very tight as you can see right there it's starting to come off and it's still on the shirt [Music] so you're gonna have to play around with it um just to get it going however we can move a little bit faster so let's go ahead and do so so here's a little technique that i've come to develop and use this left hand to press it down and i pretty much try to fold it with my left hand it's not going to bend and fold it's just going to keep a very nice super nice curve that way it makes it flat the entire time so while i peel with this one and use my left hand to push it down like so [Applause] there we have it we got the design on the t-shirt as you can see it's very shiny so we have to do our very last press and as you can see it just seems like one big vinyl print on a t-shirt so it is kind of has that papery effect that i was speaking of however it's because of the design and it's kind of hard to explain i wish i could show it to you in person but this is the best that we can do however we have to do one final 20 second press so let's go ahead and get that going all right so for this one right here we are going to put the parchment paper pad paper on top of the design because we don't want the design to get stuck to the heat press do we no we don't all right so here we go one last 20 second press this is it all right so and usually dude just kind of snatches off but you want to do the same thing [Applause] all right look at that print now it looks a whole lot better it's not as glossy not as shiny it's a little more matted to the shirt it looks a little more printed i wish i could see it in person it does have a little bit of a faded uh black to it that's because this printer does not have black ink the 800 does not have black ink um there is a way to make the black a little bit darker um basically and use all of the inks to make a black instead of having black toner but we're going to get into that in the end of this video as well see if you feel it now it does feel kind of papery but to be honest it's not that bad the distressed print helps out a lot i'm saying this a lot because i'm trying to over exaggerate it so that you guys are not disappointed when y'all get the printer i notice that being an issue when you see these types of videos some people may show the print and they don't exaggerate things enough so whenever you do receive the printer and you do receive these types of results and you weren't aware of it happening then you become dissatisfied so i'm trying to let you know now ahead of time something like this right here um the average customer would think this was ink this right here they will start questioning maybe a little bit i've already sold thousands of these shirts within the past few months very low returns okay so it's not an issue for your customer okay i promise you that it's not an issue well i sell direct to customer i don't know how it is if you do b2b and sell in bulk that may be a different scenario but for me this has not been an issue all right so let me go ahead and peel this one off let me get you a close-up of this that way you can see what it looks like before and after the final press all right so we're just going to go a little bit quicker you see that was pretty quick right majority time you have an issue peeling off is if it is mostly white print as we all know well if you've been printing t-shirts long enough um white ink always have thicker pigment so it's always a different kind of issue so this is before the final 20 second press just giving it a quick little look um all right so let me bring it back to the light real quick i want to show you how it's shiny all right so right here you can see it's a little bit matted this is the fine after the final press for this one this one right here you can see that shine before it is finished off final 20 second press and as i've mentioned while this is going on i'm usually doing something else so as this 20 second press comes down i'm already peeling off one of those clear sheets uh to get the next shirt ready so um just always moving i'm not doing it right now because i'm trying to demonstrate this entire process to you but there is a whole production line process to this [Applause] all right there we have it all right so this one is a whole lot better um because this one is so big you can definitely feel it a little more but this one is smaller this one right here is good to go especially to a customer this one's ready but i mean this one's ready too it's just i'm like i said i'm trying to over exaggerate and i know i'm showing a whole lot and i'm repeating myself a whole lot exaggerating things a lot and that's because um it's one of the reasons why i even got into youtube because the reason why i'm just exaggerating myself so much is because when you make a ten thousand dollar investment i want you guys to know exactly what you're going to get okay because i spent you know a five figure amount on a printer before from a video i saw on youtube looked great on youtube but when i got the printer you know wasn't what i expected so i'm just gonna show y'all as much as i can all right so i didn't show you all this one but look at that this one looks amazing i don't even know what is it this one looks amazing without the black i know this one's gonna feel great too this is before the final press this one looks awesome except for this part right here so when we did the knock me out black um this the color of this text was so dark that it took some of it out and it created a half tone which is known as rasterization in this program um just to give it like a better feel but it wasn't necessarily so we could have turned the threshold down on the black so it wouldn't take just the dark colors out as well but only the black so we could have made those changes however we didn't so that is a learning process all right so there you have it look at the colors on that one that one is amazing um i don't know if i'm gonna color grade this footage but my camera does shoot flat images because it's made for you to color grade it after you um after you film alright so look at the colors on this one right here that is amazing so this one looks really good blue and pink really pops on black looks nice and this one has such a better feel than this one right here because this one just has all over you can feel it i mean well you can hear it you can hear what it would probably feel like this one right here you can barely hear right [Music] because all the black was taken out all right so as you can see all these little half tones it's from the rasterization effect when we did the knock me out black um we could have adjusted the threshold a little bit keep in mind whenever you make your designs uh you know for laser toner transfer um keep that in mind but yeah so you can see the difference um in creating your design properly papery not as papery this one's awesome this one still works the only reason why it seems as bad as it is now is because we have something better to compare it to however if this was by itself still great [Music] [Music] nice solid white whites are pretty hard to do um for this printer it's the opposite black is hard to do um it's pretty dark right here though all right so let's go over a few things all right so let's go ahead and go over a few things oh hold up that was a size medium now i got a shirt on so it seems like it took a little bit of time right but it's not as much as you would think two minutes for the merge a to b 30 seconds to press onto the shirt and then we gotta let it cool down for at least like five minutes and then 20 seconds final press that sounds like a whole lot of time and that is if you're doing one t-shirt so there was only at one point in time i decided to calculate from full a to b process just one person two heat presses and how many shirts i could do so a full color full color now full color t-shirts gotta remember these are full color t-shirts so about roughly two hours i was able to do 44 t-shirts and that was full color you gotta remember these are full color t-shirts right um two minutes on the heat press while the two minutes are merging two sheets together the first initial one you know you you're probably wasting that two minutes because you don't have any transfers to work with as of yet but after that one you have one sheet which will be two designs you cut that up and you go ahead and press on to another shirt so while that 30 seconds of pressing it onto a shirt you have two minutes going on of your a to b process i'm usually able to do three shirts so three thirty second presses while that two minutes is going on then i take all those off let it cool down i'm literally always going never stopping so pressing onto a shirt pressing onto a shirt and then in the very end i don't have any sheets left to merge i don't have any more shirts left to press i just have them all cooled down so then i have two heat presses open so what i do then is take the clear part off do a 20 second press on one t-shirt while that one is going since i have the second heat press free now i take the clear off of another shirt press that one for the final press by the time i clamp it down the other one is ready to take off and that's how i finish off so all those little waiting periods there's always something to do in between time so it's not as much time as one would think so what's the benefit of me saying that a ten thousand dollar investment for the amount of t-shirts that you're going to be able to produce you're only held back by the amount of heat presses that you have which is pretty amazing i could get a third heat press to move a little bit faster but at that point i'll need another body to run another set of heat presses because about three heat presses for one person you're pretty much maxing out your work capacity however you're only limited by the amount of heat presses that you have and i'm saying that that means the amount of shirts that you can produce is just limited by a few thousand dollars when it comes to i'm comparing this to directed garment now because um directed garment is the alternative for one off full color t-shirt prints when it comes to directed garment in order to produce more t-shirts faster you're limited by the actual direct garment printer machine itself so if you have a twenty thousand dollar dtg machine well let's compare the same price if you have a ten thousand dollar dtg printer machine if you wanted to print two t-shirts at the same time you will need to make another ten thousand dollar printer investment in comparison to the white toner transfer you're not limited by the actual transfer printers i mean you're able to print out 45 transfers at once which is practically double that if you're gaining two designs on one sheet 90 designs in a minute so this is not your bottleneck it's just only a matter of a few grand for some nice heat presses that's pretty amazing to me all right so let's go over some other things that you probably wouldn't know if you just had this printer for a day like how can you make your blacks darker so it's not going to make a perfect black print however um it's gonna get a little bit better all you have to do is do a job color replacement let me go ahead and show you the toners you have your white magenta cyan and yellow so there is no black there is no key what it does is mix these three inks together to create a black however the issue is that the yellow hue makes it look a little more of a faded black it makes a little bit of a gray so what you can do they have another tool in the pro rip it's called job color replacement what you want to do is click on your design click on job color replacement click on the black and then you're going to want to replace the amount of inks that's being interjected into that print so you want to turn up the scion to 100 turn up the magenta to 100 and just lower the yellow down to anywhere between 80 to 90 you're going to want to play around with it and see what yields you the best results this memory card's about to be out okay i don't know where i left off i had to load some of the footage onto my uh laptop so anyways i think we left off on i'm comparing it to direct to garment for the price of it definitely worth it 10 grand in comparison to a 10 to 20 grand direct to garment entry level printer uh at least from my experience and the printer that i had totally worth it the thing about direct to garment as well as that i have is the fact that it had a learning curve and it was not consistent issues always popped up and the maintenance the maintenance was a pain in the you know what for the eye color 800 maintenance what maintenance and consistency once you get through that learning curve consistency is amazing um you can literally teach somebody else how to do this within a few hours as long as you already know it man you can get somebody going asap i've already taught two other people who's worked for me how to use it within that day and they're able to work for me the entire day no problem i mean they have a few questions here and there but man you can hire an employee asap with this anyways um some of the other features it has different media types different media sizes if you thought 11 by 17 was large which is what we printed on you could print up to 12.6 by 19 with this printer so you can get pretty large in size and you can also gang up designs on that sheet as well and then there are different media types so not only can you print on t-shirts you can do um see i've never experienced with the other stuff because that's not what i bought the printer for to be honest but you could do tattoos you could do temporary tattoos you could also do metallics you could do hard surface where you could print on like a cardboard box or i believe you can also use it to do mugs not too sure you have to double check me on that one however there is one that has been amazing but the results aren't the greatest um it is a one step transfer you can 100 print straight out of printer and just go ahead and print it onto a light color t-shirt so if you had an event that was going on that day and you need a t-shirts asap there's nothing else that can compare to doing a full color transfer immediately as soon as they come out of printer you can use it and press onto the t-shirt i think it's rated for about 10 washes i printed a shirt from my son and we've washed it about three four times then it started cracking and whatnot and speaking of wash tests i'm going to be sure to wash these t-shirts and include that in this video before it ends that is another thing that i do want to touch on you're going to want to include the wash instructions on a little thank you business card whatever it may be in the polybagger or however else you send your t-shirts to your customer and let them know it needs to be washed inside out i'm not too sure what uni net's instructions is but i'll put wash inside out cold water tumble dry low or hang dry so make sure your customer is aware of that because if it's not washed inside out it is very likely to crack so i'm trying to be straightforward to you that way you know to expect these things once you receive this printer so that is why the distress effect a little grunge textures on the t-shirt helps out a lot because if it looks like that's already a part of the shirt it can hide little defects that you messed up on not only that but after the customer washes the shirt and if it messes up they won't be able to tell because it's distressed in the first place so that's that for the wash test and the different medias another thing like i mentioned before it is a thousand extra bucks for the rolling cart as you can see this has this right here um without this little rolling cart this entire top part is just supposed to go onto a table top um but not only is it just a thousand bucks extra whoop that extra thousand bucks it also includes smart cut which i don't know why smart cut what that does i think it's more so for the smaller printers that can't print large sizes say if a smaller printer like the i550 i don't know the rest of the printers we'll dive into that in another video but let's say the i550 cannot print a 12 by 19 right however it can print on a smaller size like a um eight and a half by 11 and it can take a 12 by 19 design i don't even know if the math matches up but it can take a 12 by 19 design and cut it in half so that it prints out on two different sheets of paper for that printer and you can press those two designs together onto the shirts so you can have a large size print from a smaller printer so that's how smart cut works i hope that makes sense um not only that with the extra thousand bucks is a two year warranty so i believe that's what you're really paying for but so far this seems like a workhorse um i don't think there's going to be any major issues like that i did have a toner printer eight years ago i had a konica minolta i don't even know if that's how you say it neither um i suck at pronouncing y'all know that but i had a konica um and it worked great and you shouldn't use it to print out nightclub ads um i'm pretty sure you could do it with this as well so pretty much you just print out a whole bunch of four by six gang sheet that onto a large card stock sheet of paper and then you get yourself a cutter it's like the guillotine that i was mentioning earlier however it's an actual machine that you can use to cut through hundreds of sheets at once so that is another business venture that you can use with your printer if you really wanted to it's printing ads printing postcards um things of that nature so you could do that with this printer if you really wanted to i mean you see how many sheets of paper comes out at once and uh you would have to do your math on the profitability on that and speaking of issues there is one issue that i know is pretty common with a printer like this i mean just think about like a house printer paper jams it happens the very first day i had this printer i had a paper jam the first sheet of paper went in and it got stuck but the fact that i had a toner printer before i didn't think anything of it like oh my printer was broken as soon as it happened i just started taking it apart and took the sheet of paper out it's literally like a house printer but a larger version once you take something apart you can see where the paper is and you just pull the paper on out put everything back and you're clear to go so um paper jams will happen it's a printer um i don't know why it happens y'all explain that to me i mean if y'all knew why it happened it wouldn't happen i guess anyway so i ran through a complete set of toner already so um let's go ahead and look at that i took a picture of the print count when i ran out took a screenshot of when there was no toner showing there was a little bit of left even when you're that low you can still get like about a hundred sheets out so about a hundred sheets later i was able to do about 2242 prints off of the original toner that came with the printer and for a new set of toner cost around 1500 bucks so i did a little bit of rough math so sometimes i would print one design on a sheet of paper and then sometimes i would gang sheet two designs on one sheet so two designs on one sheet will still calculate as one print so if i did like a rough estimate let's say half of that was just one print the other half was a gang of two designs on one sheet we'd be looking at 3 363 uh single t-shirt prints and that ended up being about 44 cents per print um i remember seeing on the brochure or whatever it is it should have been around 15 cents so i'm not too sure my math is rough on that however um 44 cents still is not bad like for real 44 cents that's actually pretty amazing so um in total you're probably looking at if you're doing a full sheet four bucks plus 44 cent per print but for the majority of time for me literally all the time is about uh two designs on one print so about two bucks plus 44 cents actually that 44 cents would be different for the two bucks the 44 cents is an average of both one print and two design prints on one print i know that's rough math however since i did run through it all and i got those numbers for you even though the math is rough i think that should give you a good idea of how much it costs to print um with the toner and how long it can last you so it lasts quite a bit so that was like two months for me about 3 000 t-shirts with this right here i still sold t-shirts with other methods such as screen printed transfers and whatnot however i'm using this thing a little more and more every single day it's easy for me to employ somebody to use this thing so for one off full color prints this and this is an absolute great choice especially for the price nine ten thousand dollars um where the capability to scale is just being held back by an extra heat press it's pretty amazing to me and i'll try to get t-shirts up on my actual merch website with using this process and i'll try to write it in the description or something that way um there's somewhere that you can purchase to support me in putting this video together and not only that you'll be able to see the quality of the t-shirt so um i'll try to work something like that out for you that way you can get an idea of how it feels like without me having to over exaggerate it several times in this video and uh that's pretty much it for this review i give it a thumbs up i would definitely buy it again i don't plan on going to direct to garment again i don't plan on going back to screen printing this is the solution that works for me i don't know if it works for you but it's definitely working for me so i'm going to give these shirts a wash test and then we're going to end this video and that might be a day or two from now it's actually 3 38 a.m so um give me a day or two and uh and uh i'll finish this video out i wanted to go to sleep halfway in this video but anyways see you in a second yo what's up i'm back i got four the four shirts uh it's been washed and dried in various clothing in the washer and dryer four times um two of them were washed inside out and two of them were washed the normal way so shout out to the wifey because she ran it four times while doing the laundry but before we before i show you all this i haven't even checked it myself but um there's one more technique that you can do with this um during the marrying process that can speed up that two-minute um merry process so what you could do i i have not personally been able to uh nail down this technique what you can do is let's say so this was the printed sheet and this is the b sheet so the a she and the b sheet you take it put it there you know you do your little fold then you do a whole another set on top of it and another set you could do like up to three of them and press at the same time for a lower temperature and lower amount of seconds then you peel the top one put it to the side then you would have two two sheets left and then you warm it up for about another five seconds because you know you have to peel it while it's hot then you take the b sheet off of the second one and then you'll be left with one a b uh married sheet left you warm it up and then you do the same thing so you could do about three sheets and maybe like two minutes and 30 seconds or maybe even two minutes because you have to lower the time i'm not too sure but that is another technique you can look into that can speed up your time now let's go ahead and look at these shirts this is the blue shirt this one was washed inside out there we have it four washes it's a little wrinkled you might want to put that in the little card that you'll send to your customer that i told you guys about earlier wash cold tumble dry low and if you want to iron it place a pillow case over it and then tell them to iron it because then that can flatten out all the wrinkles and also help them over time you know give a little bit more press of the actual design into the shirt so just tell them and use a pillow case so it still looks pretty good color is still there um once again that is a distressed effect so all of that is supposed to be there still has a little bit of that sound as you can hear it but man to be honest that's that's no biggie for me for some of you all it may be a big deal i know some of y'all stress that very heavily that y'all want that soft-handed ink feel well you're not going to get that out of this unless the design itself has a lot of negative space let me find the one that um has the same design but all right so this one right here this one was washed regular not inside out this one still looks awesome the color on this one is awesome and see you don't really hear it as much because all the parts are supposed to be uh black was not printed out it's just negative space it's the actual t-shirt itself so this one right here is actually since it's not one big thick print it's a lot softer this one is this one is pretty awesome look at the colors in that one stands out a lot on the black and i know earlier i said it will crack but it's not going to crack if you just wash it with the simple wash instructions unless you do this first so this is going to be unlikely to happen you see i kind of like this shirt so let me not do it there but let's see here so if i stretch it it will crack it should crack maybe i'm lying okay i'm stretching it pretty hard you can see in my face that i was really pulling that down well it's not cracking though i could have sworn i thought it was going to crack okay so um no cracking but make sure that you guys have everything down pack your temperature whenever you're pressing your shirt and all of that there will be a big learning curve before you get that super nice press like that so this one right here gray shirt looks awesome still four washes this one is washed regular and last but not least this one was washed inside out these are all bella canvas 3001 cvc shirts except for the blue one the blue one is the blue one is a next level shirt i don't know the actual style number on this one and except for the black one this one is just 3000 c i mean 3001 c so there we go look at that white is still nice and bright so even though some of you are looking for the soft hand um some of y'all may be looking for that white white is a difficult um color to deal with to get right white pigment is just so thick but there you have it let's try to crack this one all right so is it focus all right here we go there we go that's what i was looking for but i'm doing that very hard so if you do that and then wash it then the shirts can be ruined but the chances of somebody doing that is very off if you want to just tell them not to stretch the shirt but who says that alright so i hope that video helped you out i color 800 um hit subscribe if you want to see some future stuff maybe me getting into the tattoos um the hard textile surface pressing and all of that stuff but for the most part that was a i color uni net 800 review pressing it onto t-shirts and i included the wash test um i know that's a big deal so yeah i'll see y'all next time

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Length: 51min 9sec (3069 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 22 2020