Discuss the various aspects of heat press technology. Transfer paper, inks, plastisol transfers, vinyl cutters, printers, commercial usage, durability, suppliers, etc.
Well I finally bought a printer and I ended up buying the r1800 for heat transfers because I will also be using this printer to do screen print seps...I have never done a heat transfer before so can someone please recommend me heat transfer paper for white/lights and darks? I would appreciate it tons.. Thanks alot!
The R1800 is a large format printer. it uses 8 inks (Overkill as for as I am concerned and make price per transfer expensive) It does use ultrachrome pigment inks so that is good news and it is not cheap.
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Well I finally bought a printer and I ended up buying the r1800 for heat transfers because I will also be using this printer to do screen print seps...I have never done a heat transfer before so can someone please recommend me heat transfer paper for white/lights and darks? I would appreciate it tons.. Thanks alot!
Hi there!
I would recommend the Jet II paper on a roll for light colors if your printer is the large format type. Standard roll sizes are usually 17" or 24" wide. For dark paper, I do not know of any rolls available other than the Roland HTM media. You might try that from a production standpoint. If you con't like the results, you can of course use a standard blue grid opaque paper in an 11 x 17 size. Do you have an optic eye cutter? The reason I ask is that if your printer does accept the roll of paper, you can print registartion points on the roll and feed it through a cutter to trim around. Much more production friendly than feeding sheet by sheet through the cutter
Cool Thanks for the info...Yea it is a 13" inch wide printer and i could use Rolls for it. I also have a graphtec 24" 300mk vinyl cutter. How does this registration to cut transfers work?
Also is it cheaper to buy heat transfer paper by the roll ? I found that one in coastalbusiness..does anyone have experience using it?
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