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Heat Seal - Heat Press - Whatever you want to call it! => General Heat Seal => Topic started by: ericheartsu on July 22, 2014, 01:04:36 PM
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I have a client that wants us to set up a heat press at an event, but they want to do foil, which is not possible as we will not be able to print the garments ahead of time. So i'm wondering, can we do transfers of shimmer ink? would that work?
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I have never done it, but am guessing that if adhesion is a problem, an underbase (top coat on transfer) of standard white plastisol will solve that.
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Yes it could. You should probably use a shimmer transfer ink
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You could make foil transfers, check it out on the Union Ink website.
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Cut the foil into squares and print the mirrored image with the plastisol adhesive directly onto the foil, then run through the dryer quickly. They can then press the foil and adhesive in one pass. I have done this before without issue, though I still prefer the ease of printing onto the shirt instead. The foil tends to want to roll up a bit so it isnt as fast as printing onto transfer paper.
Another option would be to print the adhesive or plastisol which is close to the foil color onto transfer paper (mirrored of course) and have them press that onto the shirt first, pull off the paper, then press the foil. That should work well enough.
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Cut the foil into squares and print the mirrored image with the plastisol adhesive directly onto the foil, then run through the dryer quickly. They can then press the foil and adhesive in one pass. I have done this before without issue, though I still prefer the ease of printing onto the shirt instead. The foil tends to want to roll up a bit so it isnt as fast as printing onto transfer paper.
Another option would be to print the adhesive or plastisol which is close to the foil color onto transfer paper (mirrored of course) and have them press that onto the shirt first, pull off the paper, then press the foil. That should work well enough.
the only issue with this, is that the design is very liney, and i'm not sure how well it would work....but something to try today for sure!