Discuss the various aspects of heat press technology. Transfer paper, inks, plastisol transfers, vinyl cutters, printers, commercial usage, durability, suppliers, etc.
I am looking at doing foil transfers, and I do not have any plastisol adhesive, vinyl or screening products. I was wondering if I could go this route? I know foil is not a dye or ink, but could I...
1. Take my inkjet transfer paper and print off the design in my laser printer.
2. Apply foil to design, and use the heat press to get the foil to stick to the toner.
3. Peel off foil
4. Take design, with foil, on transfer paper, and use the heat press to apply it to my tee just like I would with ink?
There is a foil for the toner application , if you go to Thermography and Business Card Slitting Equipment Manufacturer - Therm-O-Type Corporation to get to the foils go to order fabric foils button on the home page, click that and it will go to the colors page.
I have tested these foils with vinyl and they work fine although I did not test with washing or toner application but with a little practice they should work fine for you.
Look at Stahls Exact Print used with their heat press foil. You print with a compatible laser printer..even with black toner..then apply the foil. It sticks to the toner, peel away the excess and you have a foiled garment. I have the foil and the paper, print on Okidata c3400n printer. Works good.
There is a video on the Stahls site.
I've pressed fabric screen printing foil (Crown Foils) on paper printed with a laser printer to add accents, like certificates, cards, etc. It sticks to the toner if the print is nice and heavy. In order for foil to stick to fabric, there needs to be an adhesive layer. Just pressing toner on paper to a shirt won't be enough. A faint image will transfer, but it won't retain the propeties in order to make foil stick. Using a transfer paper will make a "glue" image. The one step weedless laser paper do that, like Stahls', or 2 step imageclip.
Awesome, thank you for all the pointers. The Stahl's process looks great. Do you guys think the Crown Roll Holographic Foil would work with the Stahl's ExactPrint? I have requested samples, and purchased some of the Stahls Exactprint paper. Will give it a try.
Awesome, thank you for all the pointers. The Stahl's process looks great. Do you guys think the Crown Roll Holographic Foil would work with the Stahl's ExactPrint? I have requested samples, and purchased some of the Stahls Exactprint paper. Will give it a try.
Yes, the Crown foil will work, but not for the two tone pattern technique featured in the video...but for basic foil prints...yes.
I was exited to try this exact print paper and did my homework by reading the posts here and called Oki and stahls reps to confirmed, long story short I bought okidata C530dn and 50 exact paper, today I tried and tried and tried, non of the print come out well at all...in fact it creates paper jam and looks like the ink came off on the way out, like dripping. So I had to run the second paper to clean the ink...
Am a little disappointed, spent a fortune on this venture....
Please help Josh! or anyone...
I was exited to try this exact print paper and did my homework by reading the posts here and called Oki and stahls reps to confirmed, long story short I bought okidata C530dn and 50 exact paper, today I tried and tried and tried, non of the print come out well at all...in fact it creates paper jam and looks like the ink came off on the way out, like dripping. So I had to run the second paper to clean the ink...
Am a little disappointed, spent a fortune on this venture....
Please help Josh! or anyone...
Thank you
Not Josh, but two things come to mind. Are you putting the paper through the bypass tray or it may be called the multipurpose tray? You more than likely can stop the paper jamb issue with that Next, your paper weight setting has to be set to Labels. That printer looks similar to my c3400 Oki. That paper weight setting is critical (I found out the hard way also). Try that and see if it helps.
Not Josh, but two things come to mind. Are you putting the paper through the bypass tray or it may be called the multipurpose tray? You more than likely can stop the paper jamb issue with that Next, your paper weight setting has to be set to Labels. That printer looks similar to my c3400 Oki. That paper weight setting is critical (I found out the hard way also). Try that and see if it helps.
Hey Larry,
Thank you for the reply,
Yes I run the paper through the multipurpose tray.
I tried to have it set to labels 2 first, the color is not kinda blotch here and there, look like the paper can't hold the ink.
Then tried labels1, still the same, tried different settings too, the result is just the same. Even when I print one color black, it does the same.
It is brand new printer, i tried printed some images on regular paper, all looks real crisp and nice.
So, what's wrong?
Called Stahls, they recommended e-mailing Josh.
Sent e-mail to Josh, haven't heard back from him.
Look and be sure your putting the paper in right. Your print should be on the plain side that doesn't have ExactPrint on it. It is slick like photo paper on the printable side. Did you try the photo paper setting? You sure you got the right paper?
Oh, and your going to have to run several plain sheets through it to clean up the toner that messed up on the first attempts.
If this isn't the answer, I don't know, unless they have given you bad information on the printer model.
I do notice that your printer model is not on the recommended list of OKI printers, but that may not mean anything other than just that. If the Oki rep said it would work, it should, unless a mistake was made. There are a huge number of those printers and it can really get confusing.
Will this work? Foil transfer question. 
