IRL: Designing for All-Over Print: A Live Factory Deep Dive
Why It Matters
Understanding the operational and material trade-offs in all-over printing helps digital-native brands, streamers and sports teams make cost-quality decisions and scale manufacturing without sacrificing fit or print fidelity. Greater transparency into margins, equipment and processes lowers the barrier to entry for customized apparel businesses.
Summary
A live factory deep dive at Genre Sports walked viewers through the end-to-end process of all-over dye sublimation printing, from design and fabric choice to cut-and-sew production and finishing. Founder John recounted building the business from a small screen-print and heat-press operation to a larger Las Vegas facility, explaining why full cut-and-sew sublimation eliminates wrinkle and fit issues common with press-on blanks. The stream covered technical limits — notably that dye sublimation best works on polyester — as well as practical considerations like equipment, workspace expansion, pricing and margins. The session aimed to give entrepreneurs and brands a realistic playbook for starting and scaling all-over print apparel production.
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