what type of ink and transfer paper is required to transfer this image to a 100% cotton black/dark t-shirt?
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what type of ink and transfer paper is required to transfer this image to a 100% cotton black/dark t-shirt?
re: what type of ink and transfer paper is required to transfer this image to a 100% cotton black/dark t-shirt?
Custom plastisol transfers using plastisol ink. The same ink used in screen prints. Applied with a heatpress for darks or lite apparel using opaque inks.
re: what type of ink and transfer paper is required to transfer this image to a 100% cotton black/dark t-shirt?
Ok, might be a stupid question here, but.......
If I had an Epson 1400 printer and a Roland GX-24 plotter/cutter, is there any way to make this shirt?
I guess what I'm getting at is, can I print the image on to something like IronAll, cut the image out with the cutter, and then apply? Even if you can, is that just a crappy way of doing things?
re: what type of ink and transfer paper is required to transfer this image to a 100% cotton black/dark t-shirt?
You can do all the elements with heatpress vinyl but without the gradient in the oval. I would lose the white in the oval anyway because it is fighting with the white lettering.
You could do the exact image with transfer paper on white tees. You could do the exact image on dark tees with the correct transfer paper knowing that you will have some white border.
re: what type of ink and transfer paper is required to transfer this image to a 100% cotton black/dark t-shirt?
You can do multi color, as many colors as you like as long as they dont overlay each other. I would only do two or maybe three colors on top of each other or overlayed as the design tends to get thick and heavy.
I use Thermoflex plus but there are many vinyls out there. Check with the forum sponsers on the left side navigation, Imprintables warehouse and Josh are good people.
re: what type of ink and transfer paper is required to transfer this image to a 100% cotton black/dark t-shirt?
You would probably cut the red and press it on the tee. The red oval outline is going to weld with the red letters it encounters. You would then just cut the white and press on top of the red. You will end up with a very nice tee.
Re: what type of ink and transfer paper is required to transfer this image to a 100% cotton black/dark t-shirt?
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I guess what I'm getting at is, can I print the image on to something like IronAll, cut the image out with the cutter, and then apply? Even if you can, is that just a crappy way of doing things?
Using an inkjet transfer and inkjet transfer paper on dark garments won't give you as high of quality as a plastisol transfer or if you used t-shirt vinyl.
You could do it, but I personally wouldn't say the results would be spectacular.
If you read through the forums about opaque paper, you'll see that a really nice solution for dark garments hasn't really been found yet.
That's why many people outsource the dark garment stuff to a company that can provide pre printed, ready to go, high quality plastisol transfers that you can just apply when you need to.
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