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Originally Posted by Soulwalker |  | | | | | | | | | As a newcomer to t-shirt pressing, I have grown to dislike the polymer window quickly. I have been told that you can not get rid of it without cutting out the part you don't need. With that being said, I saw a lady heat press images onto a few shirts that did not leave a window at all. As a matter of fact, the shirts did not have that plastic feel and they look like screen printing. She opened my eyes to the business after seeing that. Lights and darks. Any feedback on what direction to go would be most beneficial.
Soulwalker | |  | |  | |
Unless what you saw that was being pressed is a dye sublimation, stock or custom plastisol transfer there will be some trace of polymer because that is what is used as a vehicle to transfer the image and seal the ink to the shirt. Some exhibit minute trace and washes off others are very obvious before and after wash. However, there are laser transfer papers that are good. One has very minimal trace of polymer window and another one that is self weeding.
If you are using color laser printer there are two brands of transfer papers that stands out as far as very little or virtually no polymer window at all. These are
Duracotton and
Imageclip respectively
. I have posted about the difference between the two including the inkjet heat transfer process in this link:
http://www.t-shirtforums.com/p274440-post5.html
BTW Charles in that post can answer your question better than I could with
Duracotton. He sells the transfer paper.
Hope this helps.
The Dreaded Polymer Window 
MAD Scientist JR. AKA MS2
