 Re: How to layer vinyl on shirts
Has anyone come up with a method to avoid overlapping vinyl when doing multiple colors, or a formula to account for shrinkage? I'm currently overlapping colors, but I hate what it does to the feel of the shirt when I have 3 or 4 colors overlapped. Thermoflex Plus loses that almost-screenprinted feel and takes on a heaviness I hate. Even had a customer complain about it a few months ago. Wish I could avoid the build-up of layers, but the heat shrinking from layer-to-layer makes alignment difficult or impossible. Since the vinyl shrinks in all directions, everything moves. Very frustrating. And I've noticed the shrinkage can be quite different from one t-shirt material to another with the same vinyl. Alas...nothing is easy. |