[tyasstark]

Hello, we are new to the forum and printing....


I'm Tyas and the printer is Emma ... my partner

I bought her a MUG press for her birthday last year (April 2011) and as no0bs we thought that you could just print using a normal printer and inks lol duh...

anyways we finally got round to getting a CISS printer with sub inks

and I have just bought her a Tee Shirt Press for this years birthday....

been looking around and have read that the best t shirts to get are 100% poly... but cannot find them cheap anywhere.... and every whole sale t shirt website i find for sub printing sell 100% cotton ones..... urgh!! can anyone help us no0bs out ?

Thanks in advance .... great website too
we are from Grimsby UK

 

[lben]

Welcome to the forum. You can print on 100% cotton but you need pigment ink and inkjet transfer paper (or laser paper if you have a laser printer). You can only sublimate on 100% polyester and yes they are very expensive shirts. I did find one place in China that sells them but you have to buy 5,000-10,000 at a time.. Which I suppose is fine if you get a group of 100 printers together to order shirts. TSC Apparel has them under sublimation using search, but again they are pricey. I guess you'd just have to take the price of the blank poly shirt into consideration when deciding on the sale price and work around it.

I hope you have a supplier over there for sublimation blanks. Over here Conde.com has a ton of things that can be sublimated with your shirt press. So it isn't just mugs and shirts. There is a whole world of products out there to choose from.

 

[tyasstark]

thanks for the help....


with the pigment ink and transfer paper can i print onto dark t shirts ?

 

[lben]

No, you can't. Printing on darks requires a special paper. It's a 2 step process and requires a lot of cutting off of a white background etc. It is thick and just doesn't look good or feel good. There are plastisol transfers that can be applied to darks as well as direct to garment printing. But with regular ink and transfer paper, no. You will have to stick to whites and lights.