Discuss the various aspects of heat press technology. Transfer paper, inks, plastisol transfers, vinyl cutters, printers, commercial usage, durability, suppliers, etc.
Just a tip for anyone the prints plastisol transfers for years we have used transfer paper from our ink supplier, had the usual problems as you do, then with a few tests we found a great source of cheap transfer paper that works better than any we ever tried from an ink supplier, it has a low shrink rate and it gives me a 100% ink transfer its also easy to line up i just print on my deck then dry it since the paper is semi transparent its an easy to keep good registration, the silly thing is that the best paper i've found turns out to be your run of the mill baking paper, i use a brand called 'Glad Bake' or 'MONO' baking paper not sure if you can get them in the states, it runs us about $10USD for a caterers pack 120meters and i can just buy it at the supermarket, hope that helps any one who has trouble maybe go and buy a few of brands you can get and give it a test, hope that helps someone
I'm new to these forums, this post was just my go at helping people and offereing a tip that i think is a good one, does anyone have any feed back or think it will help, i'm i New Zealand and transfer paper cost alot down here since it comes from the US or china, the above paper has saved me loads of cash and i can do better work because of it, so i hope it helps someone else out.
Yeah we print our own transfer, theres not a big market here for selling transfers, we mainly use it on promotional products, totes, bags, umbrellas and the likes, not so much shirts, i've never been a big fan of transfers on shirts we tend to just print them direct, as to the process we use, well we get a real fine glue power not sure what brand it is we normally just coat each colour in the crystal and just rack them, we only run them down the dryer on the last colour and coat the last colour with a corse crystal, works well as long as your careful not to knock the ink around, i'll post some pictures later, we've even used this for a 4 colour process. as to can i rap my lunch in the paper, lunch rap doesn't work its got to be cooking or baking paper but some brands don't work, i've only had sucsess with the above brands.
Here's some examples, i've showen the back and the front of some, the TVNZ shirt was a 6 colour transfer and the lizard was a 4 colour process, the other transfers are going on bags and hats.
Chris thats a good one!! I have a buddy here who swears by "wax paper" ...he uses it a lot and gets good results. We call it poor boy printing lol...but hey it works and thats what matters.
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Chris thats a good one!! I have a buddy here who swears by "wax paper" ...he uses it a lot and gets good results. We call it poor boy printing lol...but hey it works and thats what matters.
Thanks Silverstone, yeah it is a bit budget but it worked better for me than the high cost papers, we don't get much choice down here, i think the best paper i can buy local is a 75/25 split, in most cases the baking paper ends up to be 95% to 100% split which helps to keep PMS colours and opacity.
Please help me understand EXACTLY what's being printed on the Wax Paper...
Are you saying that you "Print" a design from a Home Epson printer (CX4800) onto Wax paper, then Heat Press it onto a shirt? Or do you print the design from another type machine?
Please help me understand EXACTLY what's being printed on the Wax Paper...
Are you saying that you "Print" a design from a Home Epson printer (CX4800) onto Wax paper, then Heat Press it onto a shirt? Or do you print the design from another type machine?
Im almost sure that they are printing plastisol ink on the transfers but what i wanna know is how do they cure it so that it doesnt sprea on everything it comes in contact with?
Im almost sure that they are printing plastisol ink on the transfers but what i wanna know is how do they cure it so that it doesnt sprea on everything it comes in contact with?
Yes they are plastisol transfers, screen printed, sometimes we run each colour down the dryer at a low temp just enuff to gel the ink, but most of the time directly after printing each transfer we coat it it with a very fine powder adhesive, but we don't dry it we just print the next colour ontop of the glue, the glue seems to be enuff to keep the ink from spreading, so long and you show a reasonable amount of care, i don't think baking paper is the same as wax paper, we use wax paper over here as luch rap but the baking paper we use doesn't seem to have the same surface as lunch rap, next time your at the supermarket but a roll of cooking paper or baking paper and give it a try, as i said in my first post some brands work and some don't but it should be cheap enuff to try, it also seems to have less shrinkage than real transfer paper.
hi chris do you hav the tutorial on how u do the printing step by step.If u hav the pictures or videos,it is easier for us to understand your technique .TQ
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