here is what i do:
firebird PT normal coat, look up online how many gram per cm2 you need, so buy a kitchen scale.
have a fan air dry the pretreated shirts about 80% they need to be a little bit moist, not totally dry. you'll need a clothing rack or a piece of pipe to hang a bunch of shirts behind a fan. any household rotating fan will do.
heatpress the shirts with heavy pressure 15 sec to get them realy flat. No teflon or paper needed. (if you see white stains, crystallization of PT your shirts are to wet still.) i have an air pressure press on the highest setting. look up close you will see firebird will get all the little fibres down flat. the epson pretreat is less effective at the tiny fibres. The reason you want to have the shirts 20% not air dried is because that little bit of moist will get your tiny fibres to glue down flat. if the shirts are completely dried they wont stay down when bringing the shirts to the press.ONly wet pretreat sticks to wet pretreat. dry pretreat doesnt stick anymore, this 20% is important.
now print normal and dont over cure. the print needs to be somewhat elastic after curing, if it's brittle and easily cracks it's overcured. I somehow smell when the ink is dry. it's a slight chlorine/mint smell. Epson recomends curing times from 45 sec for white ink up to 90 sec for large area's. I use low pressure for curing and do a 15 sec high pressure afterpress to push the ink flat.
have a bottle of distilled/demineralised water always ready to spray out the press marks. this is how i do it. been printing about 10 years on various printers..
with hoodies i would do the same but use a lot of water to spray out the press marks afterwards.
if your print doesnt look good i would press the pretreat first 5 seconds, get the steam out and do the full 15 sec
Digital printing t-shirts is 75% about how you pretreat and dry and 25% what printer and curing
