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I have a customer who would like a company logo on a table cloth.
She has varified that it will be cloth, but doesn't know what kind.
I'm thinking of using the ColorPrint because I think it sticks to just about everything.
The design is bigger than my press (16 x 20),
so using the ColorPrint, can I press the design in steps?

 

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Just heard from the customer - the cloth will be Polyester.
One of my suppliers has advised me that trying to step it will most likely produce creases - so right now the plan is to use the ColorPrint for Leather and install with a hand iron.
Anyone with advise or experience with this would be my best friend right now.

 

[deChez]

If it's a simple logo, with just 3 or 4 colors, you could use vinyl instead of a print.

I've done vinyl in "steps" as you say, and had no problem with creasing.

If you don't have a vinyl cutter, or yours isn't big enough to cut that size logo, perhaps you could outsource the cutting part (maybe your local sign shop?).

One other thought is to lay down a piece of thin plywood or something -- at least 16 X 20 on top of your bottom platten. Cover that with a sheet or something, and move your design around on that while to press part of it at a time. You'd still only be pressing small parts, but it would never crease over the bottom platen.

I've never tried it...just a wild a$$ guess.

 

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That does make sense to me that if it did crease it, I could just come back and hit the crease with the press and smooth it out.
The hard part of this is it's a customer supplied substrate.
There's no way I can really duplicate the situation to test it like with a t-shirt.
If I'm wrong about how I go about it I will probably ruin their table cloth which could be high dollar for all I know.

 

[deChez]

That does make sense to me that if it did crease it, I could just come back and hit the crease with the press and smooth it out.
The hard part of this is it's a customer supplied substrate.
There's no way I can really duplicate the situation to test it like with a t-shirt.
If I'm wrong about how I go about it I will probably ruin their table cloth which could be high dollar for all I know.

Buy some test material. In my area, the fabric stores have become so few and far between, and are sorely lacking in choices, that I can't always buy a quarter yard of fabric to test on.

I would go to Ross, or Mervyns, or Target, or Bed Bath & Beyond, and look for some polyester napkins on clearance sale, and use those to test.

 

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Agreed - I can't be intimadated by this thing or I'll screw it up for sure - if I ruin it - it's the learning curve - cost of doing business.