Heat Transfer Printing On Fabric
Heat transfer printing works well for adding or customizing prints on fabrics such as athletic uniform numbers.
Heat transfer printing on fabric. Because heat transfer prints are durable they work well when the printed object is exposed to the elements. Wear your art with iron on transfer paper sheets. Epson printers are popular for printing onto fabric. Transfer printing is the term used to describe textile and related printing processes in which the design is first printed on to a flexible nontextile substrate and later transferred by a separate process to a textile.
It may be asked why this devious route should be chosen instead of directly printing the fabric. Shop our selection of transfer paper and photo fabric online. Heat transfer printing is a better long term solution than using direct thermal printing which is known to wear out. It will likely work best with smaller 8 5 x 11 designs and.
The design is transferred from the paper to the fabric using heat and pressure. Heat transfer prints are placed on the fabric and then fused onto it using a fusing machine at. Print and iron on designs to t shirts totes and more. Heat transfer is a two step process of printing on fabrics.
First the art work is printed with special ink on wax.