Thanks for the instructions and pictures! I don't own an Anajet, but I am sure this would work with other DTG printers. When you apply foil to the image, does it always stick to ALL the wet ink on the shirt? In other words, could you not have a DTG / foil hybrid print, where only a certain color is represented in foil?
Gold foil:tutorial!
HELLO EVERYONE,
IN THIS TUTORIAL I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU HOW TO APPLY FOIL TO YOUR TSHIRTS
NOW IM USING AN ANAJET SPRINT, IF YOUR USING THE ANAJET 125 ITS THE SAME PROCEDURE.
STEP 1: Image Prep
Now before we start printing we need to get our graphic ready for print, Very simple. Now if your going to use gold foil like I am you must turn your image some sort of yellow first, (foil works better when using same color in your graphic, gold/yellow foil=yellow/gold graphics). Depending on the shade of yellow I use It will have a different effect, (ex: bright yellow will give you the brightest yellow foil, while a yellow/orange color will give you a bronze Foil)
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STEP 2: General Settings
Below I have attached a screen shot of my settings, For my white underbase I used a Medium 1 (not much white needed! This is great in ink cost!)
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Now for my color settings I'm using a Heavy 4 vivid
Now we need a heavy 4 because we need the ink to be nice and wet so when we apply the foil it sticks right on there.
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Step 3
rinting
So now that we have all of our setting dialed in, we just need to set up our shirt and print.
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STEP 4:Curing
So now that we have our shirt printing we need to take it over to the heat press. You want to do this quickly because you want the ink to still be wet when you apply the foil. Place the foil Shinny side up! Like in the image below.
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Now place your press sheet right over the foil.
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and press your shirt.
Heat press Settings:
Were going to use our standard dark shirt settings. 330 degrees for 90 seconds.
STEP 4: FINISHING TOUCHES
So now that our shirt has been pressed were going to let it cool down for about a minute. I usually set it aside and keep my production going.
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Slowly peel of the foil, make sure you pull from one direction (top to bottom or left to right etc.)
All done!!!!
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IN THIS TUTORIAL I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU HOW TO APPLY FOIL TO YOUR TSHIRTS
NOW IM USING AN ANAJET SPRINT, IF YOUR USING THE ANAJET 125 ITS THE SAME PROCEDURE.
STEP 1: Image Prep
Now before we start printing we need to get our graphic ready for print, Very simple. Now if your going to use gold foil like I am you must turn your image some sort of yellow first, (foil works better when using same color in your graphic, gold/yellow foil=yellow/gold graphics). Depending on the shade of yellow I use It will have a different effect, (ex: bright yellow will give you the brightest yellow foil, while a yellow/orange color will give you a bronze Foil)
STEP 2: General Settings
Below I have attached a screen shot of my settings, For my white underbase I used a Medium 1 (not much white needed! This is great in ink cost!)
Now for my color settings I'm using a Heavy 4 vivid
Now we need a heavy 4 because we need the ink to be nice and wet so when we apply the foil it sticks right on there.
Step 3
rinting So now that we have all of our setting dialed in, we just need to set up our shirt and print.
STEP 4:Curing
So now that we have our shirt printing we need to take it over to the heat press. You want to do this quickly because you want the ink to still be wet when you apply the foil. Place the foil Shinny side up! Like in the image below.
Now place your press sheet right over the foil.
and press your shirt.
Heat press Settings:
Were going to use our standard dark shirt settings. 330 degrees for 90 seconds.
STEP 4: FINISHING TOUCHES
So now that our shirt has been pressed were going to let it cool down for about a minute. I usually set it aside and keep my production going.
Slowly peel of the foil, make sure you pull from one direction (top to bottom or left to right etc.)
All done!!!!
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In my experience with this, the foil sticks to ALL of the ink. I have gotten pretty good at multiple color foil prints by curing the first color of foil on then reregistering the shirt on the printer and doing the process over again with a different color ink. How I get my registration exact is my little secret.
I'm going to try this cardboard and pins method. It seems pretty simple...pretty disappointed that I didn't think about it before
After some trial and error, I've been using chalk marks on dark/colored shirts and pen marks on scotch tape on white shirts. Also, layering your images like DAGuide said does make it a lot easier!
After some trial and error, I've been using chalk marks on dark/colored shirts and pen marks on scotch tape on white shirts. Also, layering your images like DAGuide said does make it a lot easier!
Of course there are many ways to do this.
The transparency method is free (unless you count the cost of a sheet of acetate). You're already set up if you know how to place a shirt on a platen and print on it.
There is no power, cabling, rigging, or any other setup. You just add a transparency on top of the shirt, print on that then nudge in software until registration is perfect. You don't need to print the whole image either just a fraction to confirm registration.
The transparency can be reused indefinitely when cleaned with alcohol.
Why make it easy when you can make it complicated and charge money for it
The transparency method is free (unless you count the cost of a sheet of acetate). You're already set up if you know how to place a shirt on a platen and print on it.
There is no power, cabling, rigging, or any other setup. You just add a transparency on top of the shirt, print on that then nudge in software until registration is perfect. You don't need to print the whole image either just a fraction to confirm registration.
The transparency can be reused indefinitely when cleaned with alcohol.
Why make it easy when you can make it complicated and charge money for it
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