Fleecing

[Dave Springate]

Hi Dave,

Use very light pressure mate or you will flatten the pile on the fleece, try a tea towel on top of garment and vinyl before pressing works every time for me. Oh and the best stuff to use on flleece that i have found is the flock material.

Dave

[Freddy.Tait]

try cutting a cardboard square template and place under the fleece
before you heat press , we use one 1/4 inch thick
this raises it for printing
and leaves the rest below in good nick
you still have compression on the square

from freddy at ecp

[Carrie Brown]

We never use garment film on fleece or knitwear, out of the samples we have done over time, we found that it does not hold to the fleece pile well enough or long enough for our liking?? We have also been advised by suppliers that its not really recommended for anything that has a pile e.g fleece or knitwear?? We dont do them, but I guess thats just us 😀

Carrie 😀

[Robert Lambie]

we dont do anything like this these days but did loads way back..
we kept the heat press and some machines though and printed our own works stuff with them now and again.. about a year ago i bought a nice navy fleece about £35 and thought ill tart it up with company name etc..
onto the press it goes down for 30 secs or so… up with the press and bingo.. a perfect 😕 square 🙁 flattened 😥 unrepearable fleece :banghead:

good tips folks.. wish i knew then.. :lol1:

anyone wanna buy a funky “unique” navy fleece? winters coming remember? :lol1: :lol1:

[Freddy.Tait]

embroidery is the name of the game for fleeces
or get someone to laser mark your fleece
GSUK nottingham worth a look for laser marking fleeces
all the best from sunny scarborough
embroidery capital of the north.

[Dave Bruce]

thanks for the replies guys.

They not only want their logo on the front buy on the back too 🙁
Guess i will expect them to be back after a short time then, oh well you live and learn.

Rob, I had at least thought about that problem

Cheers

Dave

[Martin C]

You’ll have absolutely no problem printing onto fleeces with Flock if you do the following:

Support the transfer area from underneath with a piece of folded cloth.

Cover the entire surrounding area with some fleece offcuts facing downwards (pile to pile).

Use as little pressure as you need to to get the desired ‘meltdown’.

Reduce the heat setting and increase the dwell time. Flock onto fleece is like vinyl onto vinyl or xxxx on a blanket! 😛

When finished use a toothbrush to brush the pile back up.

You will get a faint square or rectangle where the carrier paper was but if you go into any Asda stor and look at the back of the till girls jackets you’ll see that this is acceptable to them so should be for anyone?? 😕

With practice you can eliminate the pressure pattern by trimming the transfer as close as possible and hitting it just right on the pressure/heat/dwell time. And it lasts and lasts too!

[Dave Bruce]

Thanks Martin, I was talking to Xpres today and they recommend to do the same as you have said.

Thanks for all the replies.

Dave