Why then are some copier places willing to use transfer paper and others won ?
A lot depends on the copier place’s volume, the age of the copier, and other variables. Some Mom and Pop and other independent copy places do not carry service contracts. They may have someone on the staff with a copier repair background. The volume is important because service contracts are tied to it. A very large volume copy store which may be part of a national chain (which shall remain nameless), may have sufficient color copy volume so that a few sheets of transfer paper every month are not going to be noticed in the overall maintenance pattern. A number of years ago the large chain which shall be nameless started doing T-shirt transfers in a big way. My personal theory is that the transfer paper people convinced them there was a fortune to be made in T-shirts. Anyway, with so many stores and so much volume, the thinking may have gone: who cares if our maintenance goes up, we’ll make it up from the profits on T-shirts. Well, they apparently didn’t, and now only a few remaining st
