Using Heat Transfer Paper for Dark Garments on Light Colored Shirts
What would happen if I printed a design on heat transfer paper for darks, trimmed out the unwanted portion and then pressed it on to a white t-shirt? Would the colors taint the white colored portion of the shirt in the wash? has anyone tried this?
Re: Using Heat Transfer Paper for Dark Garments on Light Colored Shirts
just wondering why you want to use this technique? i guess it would be different. i just hate the way the dark transfer paper feels. and it cracks after like 5 washes. are you doing a full-color design? both type of papers have their own disadvantages. if i had the room i'd set up a silkscreen joint.
Re: Using Heat Transfer Paper for Dark Garments on Light Colored Shirts
Opaque cost more than transfer for lights. Why spend extra expense and time trimming when transfer for light will work without trimming. I am talking about self weeding Imageclip for inkjet. Works on light pastel and slightly dark colored fabrics.
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Re: Using Heat Transfer Paper for Dark Garments on Light Colored Shirts
It's a simple design for a shirt. And the weeding is only for one image that is a part of the design. So it's not a hassle. Although heat transfers are nice, I honestly must say I really prefer using vinyl or plastisol transfers. In this case, it's just one shirt so paying for plastisol for one shirt is stupid. My thoughts were that if I used an opaque for this one part of the shirt design, it would stand out and last longer than applying it with the heat transfer paper for lights which willl eventually fade.
Also, I have not had any cracking or peeling with my opaque transfers from JetPro paper.
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Now it makes more sense. I have done the same thing but only on pastel shirts and sweatshirts. I mixed opaque and light transfer. I used light transfer for the text part with black color to avoid trimming manually and used the opaque for the full color design with minimal trimming. I also mixed glitter vinyl text and full color opaque. Again minimal trimming with the opaque.
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Luis MAD Scientist JR. AKA MS2 Digital Artist. My canvas is t-shirt and my paintbrush is heat press.
Re: Using Heat Transfer Paper for Dark Garments on Light Colored Shirts
Okay. Since you tried it with pastels and had no bleeding or color problems, this should work on a white colored shirt. I'll try it tonight and see what happens after i wash it.
Re: Using Heat Transfer Paper for Dark Garments on Light Colored Shirts
If you get bleeding that is due to the type of opaque that you use. People claims bleeding with certain brand of opaque. I use Blue grid and Roland opaque. There is no bleeding and very minimal fade that is noticeable.
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Luis MAD Scientist JR. AKA MS2 Digital Artist. My canvas is t-shirt and my paintbrush is heat press.
Re: Using Heat Transfer Paper for Dark Garments on Light Colored Shirts
Okay. i've only used Jetpro For Darks. I've never tried it on a light colored garment before. But have had no problems with fading, bleeding, or cracking on dark colored garments. My business partner has a shirt with a Jetpro Heat Transfer Paper for darks and has washed the shirt at least 8 or 9 times. Still no fading. Or little from what I can tell.
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Using Heat Transfer Paper for Dark Garments on Light Colored Shirts 
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