What's the best type of opaque Heat Transfer Paper, in your opinion?
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What's the best type of opaque Heat Transfer Paper, in your opinion?
What's the best type of opaque Heat Transfer Paper, in your opinion?
Hey guys... I recently bought some paper from printonit.com and it really sucks.. It comes out great but after a wash it gets kind of wrinkled I guess you can say. Any one have some insight.
Also, what do you guys feel is the best paper for dark shirts. I was using the blue grid kind from coastal business and it was working pretty well. Just wanna make sure i'm using the best possible stuff.
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Alex, blue grid from Coastal is good for an opaque. I have been using Iron all which seems to be getting hard to get. Visual Color has softfeel. There is also transjet II which I would use if if I can't get my fix of iron All.
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Originally Posted by badalou
Alex, blue grid from Coastal is good for an opaque. I have been using Iron all which seems to be getting hard to get. Visual Color has softfeel. There is also transjet II which I would use if if I can't get my fix of iron All.
Lou am lost. You usr blue grid, so what is iron all? I thought that was for light colored shirts. And what is visual color?
__________________ I'm getting closer to a new t-shirt.
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Lou am lost. You usr blue grid, so what is iron all? I thought that was for light colored shirts. And what is visual color?
Blue grid is an opaque transfer for dark shirts. Iron all is a hot peel for lights and whites.www.Visual-color.com
is a supplier for softfeel light tranfer paper.
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I just bought more trans paper to try from Photopaperdirect.com
this looks to be the same as i was getting from Signal inkjet other then it was a little cheaper, so thats the 3rd company that i have sent to and got the same transpher paper all named diff.They all have the green circle and iron in the middle so i am at a loss lol think i may change printer and go the laser/duracotton way =) but will wait till i go over to England to look at the Oki
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I think the OP was wondering about inkjet opaques...
I haven't tried Blue Grid yet, but I've used JetDark from Coastal, and I really like it so far. I'm not ready to take it into production yet, tho. I still need to test some other things...
Another possibility that I'm looking into, which will be even cheaper than standard inkjet transfers is having someone print on vinyl using solvent inks. That's only really viable as a replacement if you're selling quite a few of the same designs, tho. Not really for one-offs, unless you have your own VersaCamm.
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Originally Posted by Chani
I think the OP was wondering about inkjet opaques...
I haven't tried Blue Grid yet, but I've used JetDark from Coastal, and I really like it so far. I'm not ready to take it into production yet, tho. I still need to test some other things...
Another possibility that I'm looking into, which will be even cheaper than standard inkjet transfers is having someone print on vinyl using solvent inks. That's only really viable as a replacement if you're selling quite a few of the same designs, tho. Not really for one-offs, unless you have your own VersaCamm.
i've used that technique (printing on vinyl and the hand is horrible- not soft enough for my taste)
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ok finally I am trying DK t's got some T/P from coastle, so far so good =)
Now I have a problem i am hoping someone can help me with =) I am going to print some sweats up mostly LT col but finding it hard to get a good image on them is that to do with my pressure? or do i need to put something under it.
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Originally Posted by deniseg
ok finally I am trying DK t's got some T/P from coastle, so far so good =)
Now I have a problem i am hoping someone can help me with =) I am going to print some sweats up mostly LT col but finding it hard to get a good image on them is that to do with my pressure? or do i need to put something under it.
Are you using paper for darks? If not then you have a problem. If you are using a paper for lights then the color of the shirt wil come through. Is that your problem. badalou
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