Newbie Question on Heat Presses....

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morval

Discussion Starter · Apr 29, 2012

Hi quick question, I was watching a video about heat presses and the guy showed that you could put the lower platter into the tshirt, so you have only the one side of the tshirt on the top platter and the rest is undernearth the platter. I hope I'm describing that properly. Sounded like this was important if you were doing transfers on both sides of the tshirt?

My question is can you do this with most presses or only certain ones. Its hard to tell from the pictures if you can do it with each type of press.

I quess next question, is this even an important consideration?

Thanks for all your help,

Konrad

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greyhorsewoman

· #2 · Apr 29, 2012

I'm assuming you mean feeding the blank over the lower platen, placing the transfer and pressing. I do this all the time for thick fabrics and to press multiple transfers on one shirt. You can do this with anything that FITS. I have a 15x15 clamshell and can feed all my sweats, hoodies, and adult t-shirts without any issues, but once I get to children's sizes, no go. A 16x20 might create more issues with some of the smaller sizes.

You can still do transfers on both sides of a shirt by using protective teflon sheets.

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morval

Discussion Starter · #3 · Apr 29, 2012

greyhorsewoman said:
I'm assuming you mean feeding the blank over the lower platen, placing the transfer and pressing. I do this all the time for thick fabrics and to press multiple transfers on one shirt. You can do this with anything that FITS. I have a 15x15 clamshell and can feed all my sweats, hoodies, and adult t-shirts without any issues, but once I get to children's sizes, no go. A 16x20 might create more issues with some of the smaller sizes.

You can still do transfers on both sides of a shirt by using protective teflon sheets.

Perfect, I was assuming that would be the answer since no specs actually talk about that.

I guess if you had to you would put a sheet down first and then a sheet inside the shirt? Could this 2nd pressing hurt the image of the first pressing?

Thanks a lot, now I just need to go and buy a press!

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BMSLTD

· #4 · Apr 29, 2012

morval said:
Perfect, I was assuming that would be the answer since no specs actually talk about that.

I guess if you had to you would put a sheet down first and then a sheet inside the shirt? Could this 2nd pressing hurt the image of the first pressing?

Thanks a lot, now I just need to go and buy a press!

You could do this to stop any bleed through, but the benefit of feeding the tshirt over the platen is that you get a flat surface to print on rather than the stitching adding to bulk on one side/ two sides and effectively raising those parts of the tshirt up causing a well in the middle of the printing area - hope you see what I mean

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morval

Discussion Starter · #5 · Apr 29, 2012

BMSLTD said:
You could do this to stop any bleed through, but the benefit of feeding the tshirt over the platen is that you get a flat surface to print on rather than the stitching adding to bulk on one side/ two sides and effectively raising those parts of the tshirt up causing a well in the middle of the printing area - hope you see what I mean

Yes I see exactly what you mean. I guess this is where a 15"x15" machine actually has a small advantage over a 16"x20" machine. Thats my biggest decision right now, which size to get.

Thanks for your fast answers, this site is great. I can't wait to get working on tshirts, I'm sure I'll have lots of questions.

Konrad

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