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Help Required with Setting Out Heat Press Lettering
I have been asked to do about 50 T-Shirts with Arched lettering on the back & a breast pocket logo.
Is there a method of making sure all the lettering is straight and centered on each shirt, I just visually line it up just now, is there another way ?
Also how do you know exactly where to put a breast logo
Thanks again for your help
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9 Replies
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Probably not so easy with arched lettering on the back but i find the best way is to make a simple cardboard template and use points like the collar and arm pits to locate the template every time.
Same for the front with a template, if you lay the t shirt out flat i always end the lettering 3 inches in from the point of the armpit and no lower than the line from armpit to armpit.
Cant beat a visual line up just to check though
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Hi John,
here’s a guide you can print out http://www.embroiderysupplies.com/image … cement.pdf
Most of the time I just lay the garment flat out on the work bench, place logo by eye then use a couple of bits of heat tape to secure down. This lets me hold the garment up to check that the logo’s ok before pressing, for mutiple garments I would just take a measurement from the first garment (garment collar to top of logo/transfer) and use the same measurement for the rest.
The way you do it at the moment is probabally as good as unless you want to spend £200-300 for a garment logo template bench thingy
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Hi John,
For the backs just place the garment on your heat press as centalised as possible, ie have the same amount of t’shirt hanging over both sides or the press. Place your lettering in the middle and then use the heat press platen as a guide along with your hands/fingers to judge the widths and height.For the fronts I take a verticle line from the edge of the collar then a hands span from the centre of the collar. You would put your breast logo where the hand span and verticle lines cross – on the nipple if your a bloke, if your a woman the position may change. :lol1:
To centralise each shirt off the press, with tape, would take too long on a run of 50 shirts – for one off it may be helpful.
Cheers John
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quote John Gregson:To centralise each shirt off the press, with tape, would take too long on a run of 50 shirts – for one off it may be helpful.
Cheers John
It would surprise you John how fast you can do it off the press, for the last six years I’ve been doing it exactly as you suggested but now I almost always do it on the bench I also find it really cuts down the time the heat press needs to be on. Mind you Hi vis jackets/bombers I always do on the press….1 or 100
Suppose it’s whatever works for ya
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Hi Neil,
I suppose its what you get used to. I can see it speeding up the pressing side of the process – if you had all the shirts laid out and the lettering taped in place.I just described it the way i do it as its the same way you’d do it on a screen printing carousel.
Cheers John
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I do everything by eye,
sometimes I press one shirt and then for the next one lay it on top and flick it back and forth like a flip book cartoon, so yo can see its in the exact same position as the last.
Use the sticky backed stuff ultracut from Xpres, or PS (or PU one of the 2) from Grafityp and you wont even need to tape it, it stays there and you can hold the shirt up to check its all even and straight, add to the fact its hot peel its the quickesst way I have found so far, and I print stacks of T shirts. -
I mainly do it by eye on large or less shirts, but anything over XL I find it easier to lay it on the bench.
Have you ever tried doing a 6XL hoodie, its not easy to do it on a 15" press! lol
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Yep.
I do all my stuff on the press, stick it on, hold it up to check its straight and press it, i have a 40×50 press mind. -
Thanks for the replies guys lots of good tips
John
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