Nice design Lucy. I plan to make a multi color writting shirt. THANKS for the idea. ......JB

 

Very cool....

 

nice ...thank you for the photos....kool

 

Here's one I did with five colors (and no overlap):

Yeah, I, like my friends, am a big nerd.

 

Great pics guys awesome job!

 

may be some people who recently got cutters and material can post s few more.

 

The registration is a little off on Mark's latest multi-color shirt (Thermoflex Plus really stretches...), but it's *8* colors, so I'll try to get a pic and post it.

 

here is a 3 color with tight registration. This is ThermoFlex Plus

 

here is a 3 color with tight registration. This is ThermoFlex Plus

nice Ellen, fine lines indeed.

thanks for posting the pics.

 

Here is another, 4 color

 

wow, those look great.. i bet it took quit a bit of work. thanks for sharing

 

Wow good stuff guys!
Friday night I tried my first 2 color vinyl, some how after it was cut and pressed, the second color did not seem to line up no matter how much I messed with it. What is the trick to getting multiple colors to line up right?

I'm using Hotmark 70 vinyl, Flexi sign 7 and a Summa D60 cutter.

Thanks!

 

Yes, I would like to know the trick also and also what kind of vinyl you are using and where you purchased it.

 

i tend to hand cut a lot of accents, i work in a shop but have a lot of freedom to be artsy. i actually have multi-color designs that never actually touched the cutter, but i don't think that's what you're looking for. i don't know how anyone else lines stuff up, but i spend a lot of time in a dangerous position over our heat press lining things up with tweezers. i haven't had any problems in layering except with certain kinds of materials (kind of harder to layer over the decoflock, which is what the gray is) and it has saved me a lot of time/trouble aligning to just cut the accents with a slight overlap and put them underneath.

 

This looks awesome! I have a cutter but haven't learned how to cut vinyl with it yet! WOW! Thanks for sharing, it is inspirational!

 

Here is another, did 6 of these on Saturday. It was actually a really easy weed although it does not look like it.
I use Specialty Materials Thermo Flex Plus, (Xtra if I am on nylon). Flexi Sign software and a Roland CX-300 or a GX-24 and a Phoenix (usually, sometimes Geo.Knight) heat press.
Regular press time is 20 seconds. I shorten that up a bit to between 12-15 seconds, rub the top with a towel then peel hot. Sometimes I will give the shirt a shake to cool it a bit first. I place the next color right on and press for no longer then 10 seconds and repeat with each color.
This design, I placed the orange ball first, the black stripes next, then all the white, last the orange rim and the orange inside the O's in Monroe. Picture might not show well but the shirt was navy blue.

 

Very nice work, could you gals tell us which plotters were used .

 

I have a Roland CX-300 and Roland GX-24. I mainly use the GX24 since the 300 and our other large format Roland print/cut are busy in the sign shop.

 

This was my first shirt a couple of weeks ago before I went to see the USC game. It was a little off on alignment due to shrinkage but it was still okay. I still don't know how to align correctly. I'll try to repost some better pictures later because these were off a cell phone.

 

great stuff. i wish to do multi color vinly apps. thanks for the pictures.

 

Heres a company shirt i did for myself the other day, turned out excellent and the photo was taken after i washed it also.

 

Sometimes I do cut pieces apart. It just depends on how large the area is. I press the layers with less time. Peel hot, apply next layer right away. This works best for me.

 

Sometimes I do cut pieces apart. It just depends on how large the area is. I press the layers with less time. Peel hot, apply next layer right away. This works best for me.

Thanks. I've tried that, but it's still very difficult with larger designs, especially ones that can't be separated into smaller pieces. Great job.