Discuss the various aspects of heat pressed vinyl transfers. Popular and new types of vinyl media, suppliers, vinyl cutters /plotters, press times, quality, how to instructions and more can be found in this heat press sub forum.
As far as I know nobody is making the gradient vinyl for the heat transfers so you couldn't do it with just a vinyl cutter. It could be done with one of the printer plotters on transfer vinyl though, but their cost is a lot higher.
Basically, no. You would need a vinyl that fades (or has a gradient), which I have never seen. It would be best to go with methods such as: digital transfer (only if it was on a white shirt), screen print, DTG, or plastisol transfer.
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Last edited by prometheus; September 17th, 2007 at 06:13 AM.
The only way you could do this with vinyl is if you had a printer cutter (like a Roland VersaCamm) and used the shirt vinyl for that machine. You can do some really fantastic images with it and them press on a shirt.
The catch is, most of the wide format printers for the sign indistry are gping to run you about 15,000 to start.
Keep in mind that vinyl is solid color pieces of vinyl.
It's not printed (unless you're talking about the print and cut product from a versacamm).
There are printed heat application vinyls such as camo, snakeskin, denim, etc. There are no gradient vinyls just yet for heat transfers. I am guessing they will be around eventually.
gradients with vinyl? 
