Discuss the various aspects of heat press technology. Transfer paper, inks, plastisol transfers, vinyl cutters, printers, commercial usage, durability, suppliers, etc.
Okay sounds funny but what is considered a dark shirt and whats considered a light shirt ?
I had a medium green shirt that I printed out some text in bright yellow on a light shirt transfer thinking it would show up. Nope. Naw. Another shirt bites the dust. So then I used a dark jet opaque transfer and still looks like crapola. (mostly cuz of the white base of the dark jet transfer). But the yellow is hard to read.
So what colors fall into the light and dark arena's ?
What is the best way to put text on a dark shirt with out the white background from the opaque transfers ? I have both epson c88+ and oki c550n printers.
Why would the bright yellow text not show up on the green even tho the transfer was for light shirt. ? Maybe if i understand this more I will not fubar anymore shirts (hahahhaha).
From experience, we use the light transfer paper for black text only on light pink, ash, orange, carolina blue, azalea, natural, daisy, gold, sport grey, ice grey, and sand colored shirts. I couldn't tell you why colors don't show up that well on anything but white and ash. It's frustrating. We're still looking for a good way to get a light text on a dark shirt as well. If it's a text only shirt with not to many letters, we use our Stahl's precut vinyl letters
This can be a difficult route also because it's hard to line up a lot of these individual letters. We're planning on buying a vinyl cutter to solve this problem but until then, we print out our light colored text on the dark transfer paper and print the background the same color as the shirt. Then we cut around the letters in a bubbly manner leaving each word together. You can also make a circle on the design around the text and cut out the whole text as one, but it ends up looking like a large patch on the shirt.
Ryan
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Why would the bright yellow text not show up on the green even tho the transfer was for light shirt. ?
Light travels through the ink and reflects back off the T-shirt. If you were to take the same yellow text and print directly on a green sheet of paper, you would get the same results as your T-shirt.
Your ink would need to be opaque to keep the shirt color from affecting the finished color of your product. Black ink is more opaque than yellow. Thus you can put black on the green and it will look black. Yellow will visually mix with the green to make ... 'not yellow'
Light colored shirts: White & Ash (light grey, but this is objectionable, as the shirt shows through the colors. It is not so noticible with darker colors, but there won't be a white, it will be grey)
Dark: anything else.
The only exception to this would be some medium colored shirts that you could print black on. But not much else.
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so from this can I confirm that a bright yellow tee would require opaque transfer paper then ? and from what prometheus is saying only use light transfer paper on white or ash ? I just got some color t-shirt samples to have a play with but dont have any dark transfer paper yet so I dont want to waste any !
is it dark or light ? 
