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Be the ultimate destination for all your customers’ needs. Provide them with the perfect trio of promotional essentials: t-shirts, drinkware, and custom tote bags. T-shirts continue to reign as the most sought-after promotional item, closely trailed by drinkware. If you’re already producing these top-tier products, it’s time to broaden your horizons by introducing reusable bags to your lineup. Custom bags not only enhance brand visibility but also showcase an eco-friendly ethos. Empower your customers to elevate their brand presence with personalized tote bags. Additionally, like t-shirts, tote bags serve as mobile advertisements, and akin to drinkware, they cater to everyone. Attract consumers by showcasing this trifecta on a single, user-friendly e-commerce platform.
Cheap, practical, and mobile advertising, it comes with no surprise that t-shirts continue to dominate the promotional products market. Even if worn just once in public and then repurposed as comfy sleepwear for years to come, an event t-shirt serves its purpose admirably, becoming a cherished keepsake of the occasion. Thanks to tagless garment labels, consumers can easily recall the company behind their favorite tees, potentially leading to future engagements.
Tagless labels eliminate the need for tear-away tags typically found at the back of a shirt’s neck. Using pad printers, one can directly imprint all necessary information onto the interior of a shirt, garment, or various apparel items, ensuring durability through multiple washes. Pad printing neck labels is a swift and cost-effective process with minimal startup expenses. Tagless labels offer the utmost comfort compared to traditional neck tags, and with a mere $0.003 per print in material costs, it’s a venture worth considering, particularly if you’re currently utilizing heat pressing for this purpose. With one operator capable of printing up to 800 parts per hour, pad printing outperforms heat transfer by 60%.
Moreover, pad printing allows for the customization of shirt pockets with one- or two-color logos. At Inkcups, we personally utilize our pad printers to imprint our ‘bug’ logo on shirt pockets, as well as on the back collars of button-up dress shirts worn by our team at trade shows.
One of the greatest benefits of pad printing tagless labels is the “soft hands” property of the print. Nearly unperceivable to touch, pad printers transfer such a fine layer of ink, leaving just enough to convey the message, but not thick enough for the wearer to notice. Specialized inks such as the SB Eco Series are perfect for tagless applications due to their commitment to sustainability and satisfying some of the strictest compliance requirements including Oeko-Tex® Certification. To learn more about all of the compliance testing that the SB Series passes, please visit the product page here: SB Eco Series Eco-Friendly Pad Printing Ink for Tagless Applications .
Learn More: What is Tagless Pad Printing
Who can resist a practical freebie? Think about the numerous occasions in your daily routine when you reach for a different piece of drinkware. From your morning juice glass to your insulated coffee tumbler during the commute, from your hydration bottle at the gym to your wine glass in the evening, that’s at least four instances of drinkware usage daily. Promotional drinkware often includes specialized vessels for hot or cold beverages, such as stainless steel tumblers or water bottles.
Read: For Apparel Decorators- Five Reasons to Explore UV Drinkware
Tote bags, reusable drawstring backpacks, grocery bags, and more serve as fantastic options for promotional giveaways. Assist your customers in amplifying their marketing endeavors by providing custom-branded merchandise like tote bags to maximize brand exposure. When companies deliberate on the ideal promotional product to represent their brand, they prioritize the longevity of the item. Like t-shirts and drinkware, tote bags can endure for years, fulfilling practical everyday needs such as grocery shopping.
As tote bags gradually replace the age-old question of “paper or plastic,” consumers are increasingly inclined and accustomed to carrying reusable tote bags to various shopping destinations, including grocery stores, farmers markets, and retail outlets. By offering customers the option to personalize tote bags alongside their orders of apparel and tumblers, you create the ultimate convenient shopping experience.
Much like the options of printing available to t-shirts and drinkware, there are a multitude of options on the market for decorating tote bags. For those currently screen printing, you may be inclined to slightly alter operations to offer tote bags, however, first explore the vast benefits of digitally printing custom tote bags. With digital technology, the printing process on tote bags can be incredibly efficient as there are specialized machines on the market, like the direct-to-bag printer, the XJET Switch. Instead of using one screen printer to decorate both t-shirts and tote bags, add a dedicated machine for tote bags.
More Information: Rise of Reusable Bags: Different Methods for Decoration
Full-color, or bright white prints can be achieved with the XJET Switch on reusable bag applications. With the combination of UV ink, instant UV LED curing and the XJET Switch, print tote bag(s) within the maximum print area of 13.8 inches x 25.6 inches (350 mm x 650 mm). Standard configuration of the tote bag printer is 2-up, but can be customized to incorporate multiple platens for smaller tote bags such as wine bottle bags.
See the XJET Switch in Action: Youtube XJET Switch Video
Canvas tote bags, polyester drawstring bags, non-woven bags, PVC concert bags, cotton totes, are all perfect applications for the XJET Switch. Inkcups has crafted lots of content and deep information around the different applications and how to best print them.
Learn More: Applications Reusable Tote Bags
The XJET Switch demonstrates remarkable versatility, catering to various application materials, sizes, and types. Moreover, it effortlessly handles both short and long runs of SKUs.
With digital UV printing, producing customized tote bags in small quantities is effortless. The XJET Switch enables printing runs as low as one or two bags at a time, offering unparalleled flexibility for drawstring backpacks, shopping bags, and more. This stands in stark contrast to traditional methods like screen printing, which are cumbersome and impractical for one-off prints.
For larger quantities, the XJET Switch excels as well. While the speed depends on the artwork size, digital printing eliminates the need for drying steps, making it inherently faster than screen printing. Though specific output per hour can vary, rest assured that the XJET Switch ensures efficiency and quality regardless of the scale of your tote bag printing project.
Tote bags undergo folding and repeated loading with various items, necessitating flexibility to avoid cracking. With XFlexx Flexible UV ink prints, tote bags can move seamlessly without distortion or damage to images. Notably, the XFlexx UV Series has demonstrated success in printing on diverse materials including cotton, canvas, polyester, PVC, and more.
Ready to get started digitally printing on tote bags? Reach out to your local sales person today to get started. Contact Us! Additionally, we have excellent partners available for inkjet printer leasing. To learn more, please visit: Leasing.
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