Discuss the various aspects of heat press technology. Transfer paper, inks, plastisol transfers, vinyl cutters, printers, commercial usage, durability, suppliers, etc.
Yesterday at walmart I saw these shirt printed on VERY NICE GLOSSY vinyl looking rubberish, cold heat transfer papers Im wondering what type of papers is that, where can I buy it? can anyone help me thanks.
Oh, man, I saw shirts at Walmart on Saturday. I couldn't tell if they were plastisol or screen printed but they were horrible. In between the letters, only in spots and not on purpose, the ink had run. It looked substandard overall, won't last long, but hey, it's a kid's tee, won't be worn long, and at $6.44 (wow) I can see many parents saying, "Who cares, my kid will love it with their favorite pop star on there, and the first thing they'll do it stain it anyway."
Must be nice to be Walmart and successfully sell crap like that. Guilty, b/c I will buy it myself. Cheap enough for a rag.
Anyway, I'm posting in to see what the answers are here for what anyone guesses that shirt was made of.
This is meant as a joke really: but I guess others don't agree b/c with 10 mins to go -there's no bids for $8 shirt.
I've seen these at WM ($6.44-6.50), and the ones at Target ($10-12), and the ones at Boscov's/Macy's ($22-24 retail, but always 25% off). For $6.50 (WM) it's acceptable for the very low quality. Target's shirts were a minor step up in quality from WM, but Macy's/Boscov's shirt had much nicer cut, thicker fabric, and better construction than the thin poorly constructed tees at WM or Target.
We really looked closely at the various WM Hannah Montana shirts in our case. It was that plasticky/rubber feeling film in some cases that you described, and it was a photo graphic of her. My hub was flipping out over how she was - so blurry if you took a minute to look at her, and she was. Out of focus, it was bad.
In other cases, there was white background coming from behind the image on only one side of the shirt. But again, for $6.44 and $6.50, if you niece or granddaughter love that girl, it's sellable.
I'd like to say also, I believe all WM's are not stocked equally. The shirts we get in the east are more likely from a different supplier than west. Why pay shipping when you are WM, so if your shirts rock, I'm jealous.
I know what type of rubbery, thick transfer that you're talking about -- that's how all transfers used to be "back in the day" (70's). I've heard people call it by a certain name here on the Forums, but I'll be damned if I can remember it. Do a search, and I'm sure you'll come up with the name... (Uuugghh! That'll be driving me crazy all day now...)
Yup, that's it! Litho transfers... should've known you'd know this!!
I just ran a search and came up with this company that still produces them (although it says they do gloss lithos, it clicks through to matte litho & it's description). http://www.instagraph.com/html/insta...ansfers__.html
Check with them if you want glossy (sorry don't remember original poster's name). I don't know if anyone like F&M, Transfer Express or others do them, but maybe you want to check for pricing purposes...
Heat Transfer ? 
