T Shirt Printing With Dark Transfer Papers Not Sublimation Or Silk Screen
welcome to this t-shirt printing video I’ll get quite a lot of questions in the comment section about dark t-shirt transfers and how I apply them and what actual materials and products I use t-shirts for transfers for dark t-shirts come in various different qualities.
if you probably looked on the suppliers little eBay for example in all the different shops there you’ll see a wide range of prices and there’s also a lot that are imported from the Far East which are unbranded and they may only last sort of one or two washes before that they start to deteriorate so the papers that I use I’ve used for a very very long time now they’ve got a proven track quality they last well in the washing.
although the different the technology is slightly different form darker t-shirt transfers than for lighter t-shirt transfers power press heat press in other words they tend to be a bit more heavier on the surface to the touch transfer papers for light t-shirts are a lot more advanced and they are sort of vary a bit more stretchable and also got a more of a natural texture.
so darker t-shirt transfers will always be a bit more heavier so I try to keep a dark t-shirt transfer for a small area and if I need to do writing because of the way that we have to cut them out which I’ll show you in a second I normally apply writing separately on using a clothing vinyl here is basically how we get our transfer papers again very similar to a normal sheet of a4 paper the difference being that
there is two layers to this this is a thin white film on basically a backing paper and it just literally sits into your printer you print on it and then you put it through your craft cutter and you cut it out so I’ve just pulled up silhouette software here so I’m just going to place that a four sheet of paper in our Epsom 1500 W printer here this the one I use this has got a it’s ciss system fitted to it which is basically a bulking system and if you look at my previous videos you can actually see how
I installed that onto the Epson ciss system I use basic dye-based inks which I’ve used since 2006 and I’ve never ever had any problems with them at all you go to t-shirt forums you go to look online they will all tell you pigment inks one of the biggest problem you’ll get with using especially if you’re using like an Epson printer inkjet printer they’ve got very very fine nozzles in the print heads and they can tend to clog up with pigment inks if you’re not using them on a regular basis and not only that if you put your printer for its maintenance cycles epson’s can
tend to waste quite a lot of ink this is my wasting bulk ink tank here which I’ve got fitted I don’t know whether you can see that we’ll try and zoom in for you but that is actually half full with waste ink at the moment which would normally be deposited inside your printer this is just an add-on device which you can have to a printer like this and that saves your printer basically being blocked up and corroded but doesn’t mean to say that the counters that go on inside the printer will still come up after a period of time for example I’ve had this probably about a year and a half this Epson 1500 W printer from brand-new and in that one of the half years. power press heat press machine
I think is about just before Christmas which was about a month ago it come up and it wouldn’t print out anything the two indicator lights were flashing alternately on it and it basically said that it was beyond its serviceable life or the ink pads will be on their serviceable life now with my older type of printers.
when I DEP some are 1800 printers and also below you was able to go online and download a software utility that would allow you to reset the ink counters in the printer and thus keep the printer working you can’t actually do that excellent sort of wised up to
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