Black Friday is about six weeks out, and the Christmas listings that sell then are the ones VersiFlex shops are building now.

A matching tee and mug is a gift set, and a gift set turns one item in the cart into two. The tee goes on VersiFlex Light Media, the mug on TrueSub, and both come off the same printer. Get the photos taken and the listing live in October, and your November is spent filling orders instead of building pages.

What’s the first Christmas design going up in your shop this year?

#sawgrassink #versiflex #christmasgifts #holidayprep #highlandcow

VersiFlex puts one Nonna Holiday design on both a cotton apron and a ceramic mug, which is where a fabric only processes run out of room.

Kitchen and table goods are the gift category people forget until the week before. Hostess gifts, Friendsgiving, the relative nobody knows what to buy for.

Sawgrass and VersiFlex allows you to decorate the cotton and sublimate the hard goods all with the same printer, so staying timely is no problem.

What would be on your family’s recipe card?

#sawgrassink #versiflex #nonnacore #kitchendecor #sublimation

VersiFlex prints the pastel version of Halloween, and that is a palette cut vinyl cannot reach.

Pastel spooky runs on soft gradients and blended transitions. HTV cuts every color as a separate layer, so a gradient is not a thing you can cut. The limit is the design, not the labor.

It also pulls in a different buyer. Parents shopping for little kids. Dorm rooms and apartments that want a nod to the season without a skull on the wall. People who want cute, not creepy.

That is a second buyer in the same October window, and the only new thing it asks of you is a file.

Do your buyers lean cute or creepy?

#sawgrassink #versiflex #halloween #pastelhalloween #sublimateoncotton

VersiFlex Light on cotton, and the antennae details survived!

This luna moth reads as embroidery, fill stitches and satin edge and all. What it does not have is the compromise. No thickened antennae, no three thread colors standing in for a fade, no dropped scale texture.

Thread has a floor it cannot go below. Print does not.

What is the most detailed thing you have wanted to stitch?

#sawgrassink #versiflex #machineembroidery #sublimateoncotton #printshop

Print. Press. Repeat.

We had so much fun hosting our sawgrassink VersiFlex Workshop, where our participants got hands-on learning, printing, pressing and creating their own t-shirts (among many other items) from start to finish.

This is only the beginning. This was only one group out of four!

Keep an eye on this page to see more of what all of our participants made during the session! We’ve got lots more to show you of what they learned along the way.

Boss babe energy, bottled. 💅🏽✨

Because if you’re going to run the business, chase the goals and handle the chaos… you might as well stay hydrated while doing it! 😂🥤

Perfect for the ambitious woman who’s building her dream, one sip at a time. 🤎

✨ Personalised just for you
🎁 Perfect for yourself or your favourite boss babe
🛍️ Shop via the link in our bio

#BossBabe #PersonalisedTumbler #BossBabeGift #SmallBusinessUK #PersonalisedGifts

Sweater Weather Society, printed on a Sawgrass printer and pressed with VersiFlex onto cotton.

Club crests sell because people want to belong to something. A name, a year, a little bit of an inside joke, and suddenly it is not a shirt, it is membership.

The same crest file runs on a crewneck, a tote and a mug with no redraw between them, so one design becomes a fall collection instead of one product.

What would your society be called?

#sawgrassink #versiflex #sweaterweather #sublimateoncotton #printshop

Sublimar algodón nunca fue tan fácil! ✨
Con VersiFlex, crea diseños hermosos de manera rápida y sencilla, usando tintas sin mantenimiento. ¡Más creatividad y menos complicaciones!
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#ehcreative2023 #subli #sublimación #versiflex #dtf

Para esta sudadera de Día de Muertos usé el sistema VersiFlex de Sawgrass, que es una técnica que me encanta para sublimar en algodón de forma rápida y práctica. Si haces sublimación, personalizas ropa o vendes productos personalizados, esta técnica puede abrirte muchísimas posibilidades, sobre todo si quieres ampliar los tipos de prendas y productos que ofreces a tus clientes.

Y honestamente, una de las cosas que más me gusta es lo rápido que puedes tener una pieza lista. 💀🌼

¿Tú ya conocías la sublimación en algodón con VersiFlex?

#sublimaciónenalgodón #versiflex #sawgrassink #sublimacion #sublimation

Puff ink expands as it cures, so fine detail gets swallowed by the rise. VersiFlex prints the texture instead, and the detail stays.

That is why almost every puff design you have ever seen is thick block letters or a simple shape. It is not a style trend. It is the method setting a floor on how small a line can get before it disappears, and after a while you stop drawing the thing that would not survive it.

Printed, that floor goes away. Thin strokes, small type, layered color, all of it holds, and it presses onto cotton in a single pass.

What is a design you shelved because the method could not hold it?

#sawgrassink #versiflex #puffprint #sublimateoncotton #apparel

Sawgrass printed the shirt, then printed the tumbler, and never left the bench. DTF stops at fabric.

Every time a customer asks about a tumbler or a sign or a coaster, the answer is no, or the answer is another machine and another few thousand dollars.

Here the answer is a different paper. VersiFlex Light for cotton, sublimation paper for hard goods, same ink, same printer, about thirty seconds between the two.

Half your customers are already asking. What are they asking for?

#sawgrassink #versiflex #tumblers #printshop #sublimateoncotton