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.
What are the proper rip settings and heat settings to use when printing directly to scrim vinyl and glossy/luster photo paper and generic adhesive vinyl?
Inkjet photo paper- no ink adhesion- rubs off easily, wont dry, colors off, printed as .tiff file.
Pvc Banner- pretty good results, colors not quite right, printed as .tiff files.
I've been doing this a lil over a year now and this is what I've found.....all the pre-sets in Versaworks work great...IF....IF you use the pre-press settings wisely.....want rich full color...choose max impact.....play with those settings...because from what I understand those settings also affect the heat settings.....it's alot of trial and error but Roland did pretty good when designing Versaworks....the blacks are always gonna be tough....good luck.
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I almost always use the Versacamm color profiles for similar material that I'm printing on. I usually export as an EPS, and normally do my designs with Corel. My heat settings usually 35 print, 37 dry, although sometimes I will let the profile do the work. For cut-only jobs, I do not use the heaters.
One key thing: you need to make sure you're getting digital print media that accepts Solvent based inks, otherwise you're opening yourself to all kinds of problems. It's easy to accidentally pick up Oracal 651 thinking you can print on it, but it will not create a lasting print as the material wasn't designed for it (need to use 3164/3165). The same goes for banner materials, lots of options out there, but a lot are designed for applying regular vinyl on top of, not to print with solvent inks onto.
jUST DID A full bleed- found a full bleed cheat!!- 13oz banner printed 40" x28" on both sides, printed fast and beautiful and dried pretty well on both sides, after heat set on 50 deg though- seems a little high.
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