#gang sheets
8 posts tagged gang sheets.
Gang Sheet Gap and Margin Settings: What Actually Matters for DTF
Choose DTF gang-sheet gap and edge margin from the cutting, registration, and handling work that follows printing—not from an unsourced universal setting.
Best DTF prepress software 2026: an honest roundup (including the free tools)
Six DTF tools compared on artwork cleanup, white and spot-channel handling, packing, RIP handoff, form factor, and source-dated price—with NestSheet’s bias and limits stated.
DTF gang sheet size chart: how many designs fit
Standard DTF gang sheet and roll sizes, plus calculated how-many-fit tables for the common design sizes — with the gap and margin assumptions stated and the formula shown, so you can compute your own numbers instead of trusting folk answers.
What is a DTF gang sheet? Definition, sizes, examples
A plain-language answer to the most-asked question in DTF printing: what a gang sheet is, why shops build them, what the parts of one are called — and who actually builds the sheet, the customer or the operator.
How to make a DTF gang sheet: Photoshop, manual layout, or auto-nesting
A production-first guide to sizing artwork, building a DTF gang sheet manually, exporting it without accidental scaling, and deciding when auto-nesting should do the layout math.
Orders that split across sheets — avoid wasted film
Big custom orders sooner or later hit a hard sheet-size limit — the printer's roll width, the customer's A-frame press, the shipping box. Splitting the order across several sheets is easy. Splitting it without paying for half-empty film is a decision you make on purpose. Here is the manual playbook.
How tight is your gang sheet? A quick self-audit
Utilisation — productive area divided by total sheet area — is the number that decides how much of your film budget buys blank film. Most shops have never measured theirs. Five minutes and a ruler get you the number; this post shows how, and what to do with it.
UV-DTF gift market — gang sheet sizing that fits
Mugs, tumblers, phone cases, acrylic keychains, glass lanterns, slate coasters. The UV-DTF gift market is dominated by about ten substrate shapes and none of them fit a 60×100 cm sheet the way a t-shirt front does. Here is a practical sizing cheat-sheet.