con2rol

Hello,

I am novice to printing and i have a question regarding heat transfers.

I want to print a design on a black shirt by heat transfer, but the design have a lot of spaces within the design itself which i want to be the color of the underlying t shirt.. i understand that heat transfer paper for dark garments are white or opaque in color, so any spaces within the design will be white, which i don't want to happen.. I considered using the light garment paper but that i read here thats not a good option..

WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE WAYS TO ACHIEVE THIS?

i have thought of these options;

1- pretreat the black shirt with what they use to pretreat before direct to garment

2- the IMAGE CLIP papers;; not sure how, but i read that it only capture ink from the design???

will these work, if not, please advise me on what will

thanks a lot
and please help me find a way i cant afford the digital printing method and i really need this.. I would appreciate any help

 

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splathead

One option is to cut out the white areas before pressing. If scissors won't work, a razor or exacto knife can work.

There is transfer paper called WOW that can do the trick. It's expensive and complicated, but it works. Do a search on WOW at the top of this page.

Imageclip is not for dark fabrics. Your colors will not show on dark garments using any paper made for light garments.

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MotoskinGraphix

The problem with inkjet inks is basically they are transp. so the need for opaque paper on darks. Is the design a single color with open spaces? Is it two color with open spaces? Is it multi color with open spaces? Can you post a pic of the artwork?

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con2rol

thanks

are there any other options

what are the experienced problems with WOW and if is true then why didn't out sell any other transfer paper

i dont have a ready image now, but what would you advise if its multicolor or two color

thanks i really appreciate it

 

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MotoskinGraphix

Plastisol transfer, opaque transfer paper and trimming, DTG printing. screen printing.

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SpotMatrix

Cutter/plotter is another option where you print the transfer with registration marks. You then send this image to the cutter software and mark out the areas to be cut away then place the transfer on the cutter and it cuts for you with speed and precision. After that, you weed away the white areas and apply the transfer to the garment. The only problem is the cutters are costly and may not be in your budget, But if your doing volume printing then it's a good investment since time is money.

 

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