Good morning,
First off, I've been browsing your forum for about a week now and have found valuable information regarding iron-on transfers - so thank you for that!
Second, I am about to start a series of projects consisting of iron-on transfers and mousepad like material and would like any tips, opinions, hints, and helpful/insightful information from the experts here and in the iron-on business.
Basically, I will be using multiple iron-on transfer papers (possibly 4-6 per project), an HP PSC 1350 Desktjet printer, regular hand iron, and a white large mousepad like material (24" wide and 14" high). I will be using 4 or 5 of these large mats and each will use anywhere from 4-6 iron-on transfer papers (each will have different image or logo).
A couple things that I've learned which I actually have questions with...
1. Do a test run. I'll have about 100 pieces of transfer paper to work with, so that's not a problem, it's just the material that will be the problem. I am limited on the mats, so each one will have to turn out as best as it can. So for practice, I may have to revert to white t-shirts. Any other alternatives?
2. Cut close to the image as possible. That shouldn't be a problem for images, but we are also printing out text (team names and names). I can cut close to those, but I probably won't be able to cut out each individual letter. Any suggestions?
Also, along the same lines, I Heard that when transfering an iron-on, we may see a light "border". Is that true?
With images, I'm not so worried about, but my biggest concern is with the text/logo/names. If I print something such as "IronSerif", will I see a border going around the name from where I cut it out?
And finally, will these images wrinkle? As I said before, the final product will be on a cloth or polyester (I honestly don't know my materials that well, but the seller says that these mats are iron-on friendly) and we can "roll up" these mats. So if we do roll them up, will the images wrinkle after time?
Thank you for all of your help in advance. I know this was a lot of information I just through out there, but I figured this would be the best resource for information. I appreciate all help and information.
-Iron
First off, I've been browsing your forum for about a week now and have found valuable information regarding iron-on transfers - so thank you for that!
Second, I am about to start a series of projects consisting of iron-on transfers and mousepad like material and would like any tips, opinions, hints, and helpful/insightful information from the experts here and in the iron-on business.
Basically, I will be using multiple iron-on transfer papers (possibly 4-6 per project), an HP PSC 1350 Desktjet printer, regular hand iron, and a white large mousepad like material (24" wide and 14" high). I will be using 4 or 5 of these large mats and each will use anywhere from 4-6 iron-on transfer papers (each will have different image or logo).
A couple things that I've learned which I actually have questions with...
1. Do a test run. I'll have about 100 pieces of transfer paper to work with, so that's not a problem, it's just the material that will be the problem. I am limited on the mats, so each one will have to turn out as best as it can. So for practice, I may have to revert to white t-shirts. Any other alternatives?
2. Cut close to the image as possible. That shouldn't be a problem for images, but we are also printing out text (team names and names). I can cut close to those, but I probably won't be able to cut out each individual letter. Any suggestions?
Also, along the same lines, I Heard that when transfering an iron-on, we may see a light "border". Is that true?
With images, I'm not so worried about, but my biggest concern is with the text/logo/names. If I print something such as "IronSerif", will I see a border going around the name from where I cut it out?
And finally, will these images wrinkle? As I said before, the final product will be on a cloth or polyester (I honestly don't know my materials that well, but the seller says that these mats are iron-on friendly) and we can "roll up" these mats. So if we do roll them up, will the images wrinkle after time?
Thank you for all of your help in advance. I know this was a lot of information I just through out there, but I figured this would be the best resource for information. I appreciate all help and information.
-Iron