Andy Croft
Andy co-founded Font Bundles and Design Bundles in 2016, marketplaces that serve a global community of independent designers and crafters. He now leads the marketing strategy for DTFPrinter.com, Design Bundles' custom DTF transfer service, where every order is printed to order in the company's Kentucky facility and shipped across the USA. He writes hands-on guides to help crafters get reliable, wash-proof results from DTF and UV DTF transfers.
About Andy
Andy's story starts in December 2015 with a single landing page selling one font bundle. It worked, and in March 2016 he and co-founder Alex France launched FontBundles.net, followed by Design Bundles in July 2016. Together the two brought more than 20 years of combined experience in design, marketing, programming and online innovation to the business, which has grown into one of the most recognised marketplaces for fonts, SVGs and craft design assets, with offices in both the US and the UK.
DTF transfers were a natural next step. Design Bundles' customers were already pressing their designs onto shirts, mugs and tumblers, so Andy and the team built DTFPrinter.com to print those designs for them: custom DTF and UV DTF transfers, gang sheets built online, printed to order in Kentucky, with no minimum order and prints rated for 50+ washes.
The guides Andy writes here draw on combined experience from across Font Bundles, Design Bundles and DTFPrinter.com, and on working with crafters day in and day out. Many of the staff are crafters themselves, so the advice comes from people who press, craft and create with these products in their own homes too.
Areas of expertise
Guides by Andy Croft
Beginner guide
What Is DTF Printing? The Ultimate Guide for Crafters
How direct-to-film transfers work, how they compare to sublimation and HTV, and when to use them.
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How-to
How to Apply DTF Transfers
Step-by-step pressing instructions: temperature, time, pressure and peel, straight from our production settings.
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How-to
How to Apply UV DTF Transfers
Peel-and-stick application for tumblers, glass and hard surfaces, with no heat press required.
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Data report
DTF Shipping Times Across the USA
Real delivery times measured from roughly 2,300 tracked orders shipped from our Kentucky facility.
Read the guide →Every article on the tutorials hub and the blog is researched, written and kept up to date by Andy and the DTF Printer team.
