[Fidel]

Hey guys, I'm wondering if anyones tried this and if I'll get away with it:
I want to have a darkish brown shirt, not chocolate, but a little darker than the sand colors.
What I want to do is make a grayscale design (because I'm sure the colors would get lost), and this is meant to be vintage look so I'm ok if it doesn't quite stand out.
My only concern is if the clear transfer (whatever paper isn't cut out prior to pressing and doesn't have ink, ie. in between letters) will go "milky" after a wash. I've had this happen on a sand color shirt, but I'm not sure if I did everything right, it was one of the first ones.

Thanks.

I think this is close to the color shirt I want:

 

[miktoxic]

i've tried the same thing you're talking about on an even darker shirt and the design just got 'lost' within the shirt color. i think it all depends on if you are going to print inks that are darker than the shirt. i know it will cost you the price of the paper, shirt and inks but i would just experiment.

the other question about the left over paper transfer, all i can suggest is contour cutting with a vinyl cutter. i don't know about doing a design like the one you have in your example as sometimes fine detail stuff is a pain to weed with transfer paper atop a carrier sheet/mask.

either way i'd be interested to see how it comes out. could you post some pics when you're done? -good luck!

 

[Fidel]

Sure, I'm going to test this probably wednesday so I'll post pics.
I don't think contour cutting would help, I'll have gradients in the design (therefor I'm not using flexfoil for this idea).
Did you try to wash yours? Any signs of the transfer going "milky"?

 

[miktoxic]

no i contour cut with the roland gx-24. if you have a cutter that contour cuts you can cut jpss.

 

[Fidel]

I have a cutter w/o an optic eye. I'm working on a way to do it with the equipment I have, but expect to upgrade to something like the GX-24 once the curent cutter pays off.

 

[miktoxic]

i hear you. that's basically what i did.