printing on to black cotton

[Neil Speirs]

It may work out to be to expensive or not worth the hassle for you if the order is only for a few t-shirts.

Anyway you have the options of producing the transfers by using
1. laser photocopier (good if you have a suitable photocopier to hand)
2. sublimation (if you haven’t already got a sublimation set up not then not worth considering for a small order)
3. large format printer (never used so can’t comment)

[Hugh Potter]

if the image is edge to edge A4 / A3, then the laser route onto dark transfer paper will work, essentially you print onto a transfer paper, remove the backing, lay it in position, the use the heat press to fix it. the downside is that anything other than a basic shape which can be trimmed with a ruler or by hand, will take ages or cause probs. the transfer paper is white, and will stay white when pressed.

hugh

[graffica]

Hi Michael,
To my knowledge, you can´t use sublimation for dark fabrics.
Victory Design amongst many others do a very good thermal vinyl for T-Shirts etc. Solid colours only which you cut on plotter.

For full colour images and photos you´ll need a totally different material.

I never turn down jobs for small quantities as they invariably lead to more profitable work from the customer or his mates.

Chris A

[Neil Speirs]

Your right Chris about the sublimation on to dark garments, I was thinking about the xpres A4 ink jet dark paper which we used with an Epson R300 & using genuine Epson inks….nothing to do with sublimation 🙄

Down side being xpres only supply it in boxes off 100 sheets 🙁

I’m sure Steve was recommending similar paper from Target & saying how he found it to be less plastic than xpres’s

[Stephen Morriss]

You can get a material simular to the ones talked about here but it’s for solvent inks, then you can print and cut it the same as any other sticker, if you have a solvent print/cut machine.

Grafityp do one and Xpress do one, not sure who else.

Steve