Congratulations, Carolyn & Hubby! Best of luck with it and many happy shirts, etc. 
You can use parchment paper to cover your transfers to keep your upper platen all nice, clean and shiny, but a teflon sheet is very nice too. The teflon also help prevent scorch marks on cotton shirts. Another nice item is the fitted teflon pad that covers the lower platen. It helps shirts slide smoothly on the bottom platen, and in case of a ugly mistake, saves you from hours of clean up. It can also help extend the life of the rubber in the lower platen.
Something to raise your work area above the seams is nice. I use a mouse pad, I had one here and it can take the heat. I just cut it to size, and presto, it works. Uncorrogated cardboard does the same thing.
For lining up my transfers, I use a Fringe Cut by June Taylor. Quite a few others do, too. It was $11 from Walmart. It has numbers and lines, and is one piece. Here is a link to the photo of it that I posted.
http://www.t-shirtforums.com/heat-press-heat-transfers/t57875-3.html#post362898
If your press doesn't come with a timer, a stand alone timer,,, beats counting the seconds on the clock.
Good luck to you and ....
You can use parchment paper to cover your transfers to keep your upper platen all nice, clean and shiny, but a teflon sheet is very nice too. The teflon also help prevent scorch marks on cotton shirts. Another nice item is the fitted teflon pad that covers the lower platen. It helps shirts slide smoothly on the bottom platen, and in case of a ugly mistake, saves you from hours of clean up. It can also help extend the life of the rubber in the lower platen.
Something to raise your work area above the seams is nice. I use a mouse pad, I had one here and it can take the heat. I just cut it to size, and presto, it works. Uncorrogated cardboard does the same thing.
For lining up my transfers, I use a Fringe Cut by June Taylor. Quite a few others do, too. It was $11 from Walmart. It has numbers and lines, and is one piece. Here is a link to the photo of it that I posted.
http://www.t-shirtforums.com/heat-press-heat-transfers/t57875-3.html#post362898
If your press doesn't come with a timer, a stand alone timer,,, beats counting the seconds on the clock.
Good luck to you and ....
