1. If you were only doing a few shirts and painted the design on, what would you put over the design to keep the ink from getting on the t-shirt press?
2. Instead of using t-shirt vinyl, why not make a stencil out of the vinyl and paint in the design instead?
1. If you were only doing a few shirts and painted the design on, what would you put over the design to keep the ink from getting on the t-shirt press?
You mean painting it on with waterbased ink and then heat pressing it to cure it? The ink air dries first.
Yea but without setting some type of sheet overthe painted substrate, the paint will rub off on the heat press right? When i first started pressing shirts i tried to press it again after i took the backing off to "cure" it and the transfer melted on the press. . . .
hand painted t-shirts would take airbrush style paint or just a basic clothing paint. for are hand painted hats we use paint pens and we have also used cut out stencils and used regular spray pain.
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There are some great paints one of my friends paints some shirts from time to time uses a couple different paints apple barrel (i thinkt hats what its called), Tulip, andPolymark are the ones i can think off the top of my head.
You can use any acrylic paint with a fabric medium added to it. Just heat seal the finished design & it is very durable. I do it all the time & it comes out great!
If i use Acrylic paint with a medium my shirts feel always a little stiff.
Re: Custom Hand Painted T's 
thanks Skinsfan06
