Opinions for custom t-shirts

Creative Arts
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I am creating six t-shirt designs for an upcoming event.

  • Does anyone have experience with iron-on transfers created either on color laser or inkjet printers?
  • Which manufacture transfer papers to use/avoid. I was looking at Heat Transfer Paper (Laser & Ink Jet) | Pro World but I’m open to suggestions.
  • Can the transfer papers be used on the DMS Epson 7880?

Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks always!
Joe

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We do have heat transfer vinyl you can cut on the vinyl cutter\silhouette. Then use the heat press to apply.

Another way is dye sublimation. you can do full color images on white\light colored synthetics.

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We also have dye sub transfer. If the shirt is at least 50% synthetic, not pure cotton, I think you’ll like those results much better as long as image is less than 8.5" x 14" or 8.5" x 11" (not sure what is actually in stock)

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The dye sub paper we have is legal size - 8.5"x 14"

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Thanks for the response. I think the dye-sub might be the way to go.

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Just be sure of shirt material. 100% polyester works best, but a 50-50 blend works well also. Just avoid pure natural fibers.

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The dye sub printer is down at the moment.

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Here are shirts I recently made with heat transfer vinyl. As a point of reference

IMG_3113.JPG4032×3024 1.76 MB
IMG_3101.JPG3024×4032 2.23 MB
IMG_3112.JPG3024×4032 2.48 MB

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Those came out great, thanks for sharing. I think it might be hard for me to do vinyl as my design will have a few colors. Also I’m not positive on this but do the dye-sub transfers breathe or will it be like vinyl?

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Dye sub goes into the fibers. It isn’t a plastic like what we use for tshirts.

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