Lnfortun

What causes the vertical cracking is the area between the knit ribs is not exposed to the toner/polymer. Therefore the toner/polymer is not transferred on them.

You have to press with very heavy pressure. Also what I do with adult size shirt is prestretch the shirt. To do that I lower the upper platten on the shirt but not locked in. What it does is hold the shirt in place. I then stretch the sides of the shirt. Next I lock in the upper platten to prepress the shirt for 2-3 seconds to remove moisture, wrinkle and also keep the shirt in stretched form. Open the press, lay the transfer down and do the normal transfer pressing with very heavy pressure.

In your case the baby size shirt will be impossible to stretch as described above. What I would suggest is use a teflon pillow that is sightly larger than the shirt. Insert the pillow inside the shirt to stretch it. Prepress for 2-3 seconds to heat up the pillow. Also to remove moisture and wrinkle. Press the transfer with very heavy pressure.

Conde sells different sizes of teflon pillow. Some uses mouse pad material in place of teflon pillow. Make sure the mouse pad material is larger than the shirt so that it is big enough to stretch the shirt.

Hope this helps.

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