ThePinkMudPuddle

Hi everyone! Good evening, I am new here so please bear with me.

I am about to receive my first IronAll paper. I have a small tee-shirt business.

I am currently using some random paper with my HP DeskJet 6940 printer. It seems to be working well, have gotten no complaints at all. But, I do mainly baby onesies and realistically, they wear something 2-3 times before they outgrow it. I made a shirt for my daughter about 5 months ago and it is just now starting to get faded and ratty which made me realize I need to step up the quality a bit.

So I ordered the IronAll paper and am anxiously awaiting its arrival but I suddenly realized that perhaps my lil printer won't do the job. Will it? I'm also just using a household iron, is this going to cut it? I don't want to waste nice paper if my printer is not going to make nice shirts.

Thanks in advance

 

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charles95405

It is not so much the printer as the ink. I do not know what kind of ink HP uses. Best results will be with pigmented ink...maybe someone on the forum knows if HP has pigmented or a water based ink. If the items you pressed are beginning to fade...it is the ink..not the printer...and it could also be the press. I do not think you will get commercially viable products with a home iron.

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deChez

With most of the HP printers that use 1 black cartridge, and 1 tri-color cartridge: The black cartridge is likely a pigment ink, and the tri-color cartridge is likely a dye ink.

I use these HP inks for the inkjet transfers for lights (I use JPSS), and that works just fine.

As for the Ironall for darks, I did not have good results using the HP printer. Colors ran, and faded.

Printing the Ironall for darks with my Epson printer (which uses pigment inks) has produced very good results. The colors don't run, or fade. I have a few shirts that have been washed at least a dozen times, and the colors are still great.

I could not find your HP printer model listed, so I can't say for sure what kind of ink it uses, but if it takes one black, and one tri-color cartridge, then the color inks are dye, and not suitable for opaque transfers.

If your HP printer has 4 cartridges -- black, magenta, yellow, and cyan, then you have pigment inks, and that would be suitable for opaque transfers.

BTW -- I purchased my little Epson for I think $30 when Epson was running one of their re-furb specials. It came with the ink cartridges, which cost more than $30 to purchase seperately. So, if you're considering purchasing a printer that uses pigment inks, check the Epson site.

 

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