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I am VERY new at this whole t-shirt thing... I have a GCC Sable plotter, SignPal, and ThermoFlex Plus.
I'm only using 100% cotton and some cotton/poly blends, which specialty matterials reccomends, but on some of my shirts, the vinyl is peeling right off. Especially the deco-sparkle line...
Some shirts are fine until they get washed a few times, others peel off right away.
Here's what I'm doing:
I press the vinyl 20 to 40 seconds, peel off the mylar backing hot (unless in deco-sparkle, then cold)
I press again to "seal" the image for 10 more seconds.
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Thanks for letting me know Bob, I really appreciate it.
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I thought all vinyl transfers were cold peel?
I thought so too.....James...how do you hot peel them without the vinyl coming back off and sticking to the mylar? Ive put certain small fonted (is that a word?) shirts back on the heat press while the bottom was still warm....warmed up the shirt a bit and peeled back the mylar. That seemed to help quite a bit in getting it off without damaging the vinyl.
Do tell James.....I want to give this a try.
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I looked for the begeezus setting on my press but couldn't find it.
I thought so too.....James...how do you hot peel them without the vinyl coming back off and sticking to the mylar? Ive put certain small fonted (is that a word?) shirts back on the heat press while the bottom was still warm....warmed up the shirt a bit and peeled back the mylar. That seemed to help quite a bit in getting it off without damaging the vinyl.
One time, the mylar backing came off and got stuck to the teflon sheet when I was helping my business partner pressing a bunch of shirts. Before that point, we just cold peel it. I think you have to use A LOT of pressure though. I generally set the heat press at around 340 degrees, press down for about 20seconds, and the backing just come right off as we remove the teflon sheet. For some reason, it doesn't work with our gray shirts (10/90 but so are the other colors).
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Are you pre-heating the garment to remove the moisture and wrinkles? Thermoflex doesnt say to preheat, but Ive found if you do things go a lot smoother. I havent had a single peel-off doing it this way so far. And try the next batch as cold peel, that much they do recommend.
Like Dave said pre-heat the shirts especially 6 oz. black. Pre-Heat if you live in a humid environment for at least 20 seconds. Use quite a bit of pressure for vinyl.
My Vinyl is peeling off! 
What am I doing wrong?
Re: My Vinyl is peeling off! 
