Discuss the various aspects of heat press technology. Transfer paper, inks, plastisol transfers, vinyl cutters, printers, commercial usage, durability, suppliers, etc.
this is something i've always wondered:
is it possible to tie-dye a blank tee, make sure it's set. dried and pressed and then apply a heat tranfer to it?
i guess you would have to use opaque transfer paper, but just wondering if anyone has done it and if so can you post some pics?
-peace.
Hi, Ive done it before to a plain white LS cotton shirt. I tie-died the shirt black and white then a couple days later I added the heat transfer. It looked really cool!! I put a skull with a dagger and some hearts on it ( kinda like a "vintage tattoo look"). I also added some images to the arms to match the center transfer on the shirt. I also did a heat transfer 1st to a shirt then 24hrs later tie-died it turquoise. Would not recommend that. The dye washed out alot of the color in the transfer.
wow i thought it would be impossible to tie-dye after applying the transfer.....wouldn't the wet tie-dye ink interfere with the transfer ink that's already been applied? interested in seeing a pic from beth if possible.
my brain gets wrapped around the fact that a screen print is laying down some 'solid' type ink that sets and is opaque in it's own right and that a transfer lays down much less of that and could be affected by other inks after the fact.
don't know if that made any sense but there's got to be some science behind it that i don't understand.
thanks for the input. -tim.
That was the experience that i had when I put a transfer on 1st then I tye dyed. The tye dye pigment washed the colors out of my transfer leaving it dull.
no I used transfer paper JPSS and he is sending me one so I can look at it when I am done moveing I am going to test it and see what I think
Excellent! I'll look for your postings regarding it. I have an event coming up in a few months that if I could master both transfers and tie-dying it would be great for business.
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i was always thought the rule was not to wash a new blank tee before applying a transfer. doesn't the tie-dying and rinsing process throw that theory out the window?
possible to tie-dye then transfer? 
