Last year, I decided to hang up our aged way of life and beginning a new 1 in a beach town that is about three hours from our home… I packed up our desk, threw out our plaques, awards and career clothing and headed off to a new adventure filled with sand, sun, tourists, and t-shirts… That’s right! I went to the beach and opened a tourist t-shirt and trinket shop! I bought a vacant spot right across from the beach and close to the ice cream shop and found myself a commercial printing service.

Without our commercial printer, I never would have been able to open! I got in touch with Arrow Systems Inc and got myself training on their tagless t-shirt digital printer… Now our customers can say goodbye to itchy tags frustrating the backs of their necks and I can create tags as I need them instead of having a lot of waste.

I can charge more for our shirts because the t-shirt shop down the street still has tags sewn into their shirts, and they have to send their shirts out to be printed. My commercial printer can be used to create tagless t-shirts, and I also have the ability to print the front of our t-shirts separate from sending them out, too. That means our shop can do custom orders! The ice cream shop owner contacted myself and others Last year and wants to guess if I can print his menus and if I have a laminator so they can be laminated. This week, I am reaching out to Arrow Systems to see if they hook myself and others up with used component to meet our needs. Maybe there is a used Epson printer and laminator that will do the trick! Or maybe they can recommend a better brand such as a Colordyne or Gerber.

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