Discuss the various aspects of heat press technology. Transfer paper, inks, plastisol transfers, vinyl cutters, printers, commercial usage, durability, suppliers, etc.
Brand new to T-shirt transfer business. Most of what I am doing is using a 16x20 heat press to place transfers bought from proworld at the flea market. The problem I have now is that my daughters city softball team wants me to put their sponser's graphic on the teams jerseys. The fabric is 100% polyester dazzle fabric. I called proworld and they said they have no products that can be used to do this. I have googled on how to place transfers on this fabric but could not find any information so now I place it in your expert hands. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
A warm welcome to you, Larry. If the fabric color is white (or light), you can try dye-sub. There are also "hybrid" dye-sub papers for transferring on dark fabrics. Try Conde. Also, I have tried and used opaque transfer papers on polyester fabrics and the results are acceptable to me. Your last option could be embroidery.
Thank You for the quick reply The team uniform is a bright red with the graphic having red in it also so I will have to use a transfer that can do it that way. I thought about getting an Epson 1280 printer but not real sure on all the dye-sub stuff but willing to learn anything. Thank you for all your suggestions.
You might try contacting some suppliers of plastisol transfers other than ProWorld. Since it's possible to screenprint on 100% poly, I'm pretty sure it's possible to have a plastisol transfer made that will work with it.
Thanks for all the replies. I don't know if it would be feasible cost wise to have someone make custom plasitol transfer for just 10 shirts. If a dark inkjet paper will work I guess I will try that route. Proworld told me the inkjet paper would not stick though so I am kind of scrathing my head as usual.
Thanks for all the replies. I don't know if it would be feasible cost wise to have someone make custom plasitol transfer for just 10 shirts. If a dark inkjet paper will work I guess I will try that route. Proworld told me the inkjet paper would not stick though so I am kind of scrathing my head as usual.
Larry
It depends on the design. You'll get much better quality from a plastisol transfer than from an opaque dark inkjet transfer.
They make plastisol transfer inks that can go on a wide variety of garment types as well.
If you have a vinyl cutter, you can use t-shirt vinyl for the sponsor names, that probably work as well.
You could also get the sponsor names printed by a third party printer that prints on cut vinyl and have the transfers shipped to you for you to press. Imprintables.com does that.
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