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Tmoney · July 31st, 2009

Hello
I'm new to the biz and i have a few questions. I have made some shirts using SS paper from Coastal and noticed it only works well on white shirts. I tried their opaque on colored shirts and found them fairly time consuming and not as good as turn out as i expected. I like the color from SS on white Tees. I have been using my Canon mx700 (regular comp printer) to print my images, is this wrong? Also i don't really know much about Plastisol and would like to see if it is something worth getting to replace my opaque transfers. If someone could send me a link for them and give me pros and cons that would be most excellent!!!

veedub3 · July 31st, 2009

Hi Taylor welcome to the forums. Here is something to get you started.

Pros and Cons of Each T-Shirt Printing Method

What is the Quality of Different T-Shirt Printing Methods? A list in general order.

Inkjet transfers seem to work best with pigment ink. Check to see what type of ink your printer uses.
Some have had success with the Epson 1400 which is dye ink but not all dye ink gives you the look you are going for.

Katrina

Also not sure what SS paper is are you referring to Jet Pro Soft Stretch?

wormil · July 31st, 2009

Click on the google docs link in the sticky at the top of this forum and you'll find links to plastisol transfer vendor's websites.

They are worth replacing your inkjet transfers if you are doing quantities of the same image, say a dozen each, at least.

Tmoney · August 3rd, 2009

thank you for that! i have a few more questions concerning plastisol. Just to make it clear. Is it an Ink or is it a Transfer? Can i run this through my Canon mx700 or Epson 1400? Also Does this make a white border like the opaque transfers?
Thanks

wormil · August 3rd, 2009

No border. Plastisol is a plastic ink used in screenprinting. You cannot run it through your printer. Transfers can be made from plastisol ink and are adhered with a heat press, generally at a lower time/temp than ink jet transfers.

Tmoney · August 3rd, 2009

Ok so if i wanted to make a regular design on a dark Garment and wanted to use Plastisol. Run me through the steps of that.

thanks

wormil · August 4th, 2009

Create your design in vector format (Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw), choose a vendor (see my sticky at the top of the forum), send them the file and they will send you the transfers.

ino · August 4th, 2009

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	Ok so if i wanted to make a regular design on a dark Garment and wanted to use Plastisol. Run me through the steps of that. thanks

What Rich is trying to explain is, that you do your design,and send your file to one of the companies that do plastsol transfers.They in return will send you the finished product that you heatpress on your shirt.

Tmoney · August 4th, 2009

WOW ok thank you guys sooo much that really helped a lot because i didn't know if you were supposed to make the transfers or not but now i know that i just have to come up with the design and send it in for the transfers! Thanks a lot!

Tmoney · August 18th, 2009

I've been looking at some of the vendors and i was curious, which vendor would you guys buy from for it's price and quality?

shizzy · August 18th, 2009

T-Money I was trying to learn the exact same thing u are a short while back. U hafta take the time & just read thru this site. Its time consuming but its worth it as you'll make progress every single day. search plastisole & just read thru the posts. Everything u want to know is right there & not 1 of your questions r unique so the answer is def on here. but real quick...
If u want to sell Stock designs then start at Proworld, If u want to get ur custom stuff done Id check out F&M & Transfer Express. If u want to do shirts for businessses, events, etc then Transfer Express has tons of templates u can change very easily for ur clients. I had to do tons of reading to figure that out lol... But yea if spend a lil time you'll be good

Rodney · August 25th, 2009

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	I've been looking at some of the vendors and i was curious, which vendor would you guys buy from for it's price and quality?

All the vendors there are pretty competitive. You'll find people that have used each of them with success.

You can read some reviews here: a review of 8 different custom plastisol transfer screen printers - samples followup

And here: Where do you buy YOUR custom plastisol transfers? - a list of vendors!

This link also gives an overall definition of plastisol transfers: what is a plastisol (silk screen printed) heat transfer: a definition

poker · August 25th, 2009

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	WOW ok thank you guys sooo much that really helped a lot because i didn't know if you were supposed to make the transfers or not but now i know that i just have to come up with the design and send it in for the transfers! Thanks a lot!

You are the limited to the pantone colors that the printers usually stock. Some printers have more variety than others. You can get custom colors but you'll have to pay extra. So you will have to conform your design's colors to what they have if you are doing plastisol spot transfers.

I've been using fmexpressions.com and I've been happy with them.

Dad · August 26th, 2009

Also I think if you contact some of the vendors they are great abut sending out sample packets for you to try. Worked for me.

Dad

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can you walk me through the steps on how plastisol transfers work?