kingpounds

Hi there, This is my first post great site!! I have a question. I was at a festival and their was a lady selling t-shirts. She used a heat press with what looked like heat transfer paper (red in colour) to put the picture on the t-shirt. Now my question is the transfer feels almost like rubber not hard like regular heat transfer paper. Does anyone know how to do this and the equipment used to do it ??

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sunnydayz

Hi and welcome to the forums

Most transfers are fairly soft now compared to the old school ones
you could do this easily if you are doing light color shirts, with a paper such
as jet pro soft stretch, an inkjet printer and a heat press. That is probably what I would
do if I were wanting to put pictures/photos on a shirt at an event, and I was using transfers.

If you are selling certain transfers premade, you can either get stock plastitol transfers, or have
them made with your own images prior to the event. Plastitol transfers are screen printed
so they are like screen printed shirts, but you apply them as you use them.

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kingpounds

Quote: Originally Posted by sunnydayz Hi and welcome to the forums Most transfers are fairly soft now compared to the old school ones you could do this easily if you are doing light color shirts, with a paper such as jet pro soft stretch, an inkjet printer and a heat press. That is probably what I would do if I were wanting to put pictures/photos on a shirt at an event, and I was using transfers. If you are selling certain transfers premade, you can either get stock plastitol transfers, or have them made with your own images prior to the event. Plastitol transfers are screen printed so they are like screen printed shirts, but you apply them as you use them.

Thank you for the quick reply and the welcome! I would like to print on dark shirts more then light coloured. I'll have to see about trying the other paper you mentioned and see if works any better. I bought some paper online, blue grid transfer paper and tried it on some dark shirts it feels a little hard. I'll give the other stuff a try and see what happens.

 

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sunnydayz

The second suggestion is not a paper but a transfer you have printed for you with screen printing.

For dark shirts there is opaque papers, I am not sure which one works best. I am thinking the favorite is iron all. I used to use jetwear dark, but am not sure if people are still using it alot. With the opaque papers they are not as widely liked as the papers for lights, because they do have that plastic feel. I would search in the heat press section for opaque papers or ironall and you should be able to learn quite a bit about it there.

Are you wanting to print your images right there at the event, or are your designs able to be preprinted before hand? This will make a big difference on what would work best for you.

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