Can I vinyl print on golf umbrellas?

[Russ Draper]

I would say yes, as i think the material that umbrellas are made from is nylon, and you would prob need some specialist nylon garment vinyl, i use this to do waterproof coats and things.

The only problem would be heat pressing unless you could remove the material from the brolly, or maybe use a cap press, I might have seen a brolly press somewhere but not sure if that was heat press or screen print, afterall im still a newbie at this stuff!

Hope this helps

[Colin Crow]

We used to print umbrellas using a normal clam press but you will need room beneath the press for the handle to dangle down. Grafityp and victory sell fabric vinyls suitable for nylon printing or if you have a colour laser then TTF paper from magic touch does the job on white panels of umbrellas.

Colin

[Alison Falzon]

I’ve printed on golfing umbrellas before using the nylon vinyl from Grafityp. I had a right nightmare with them as they were to big and awkward to go on my heatpress, so I ended up using the iron instead!

It was a bit of a learning curve, and I burnt through one brolly, but once I got the temp and timing right, it was fine – and the ironing board was quite a good shape to hold the umbrella too!

The customer didn’t know any different – he was really happy with them, and I’ve had no comebacks!

[ccheater]

Thanks for the help I’ll have a go tomorrow