2 Regular Guys Podcast Listener 5 Things QUICK TIP JULY 10, 2015 BY AARON MONTGOMERY

QUICK TIP JULY 10, 2015 BY AARON MONTGOMERY

Using Spray Tack Adhesive when sublimating, I recommend that you only use spray adhesive on soft goods like mouse pads, can coolies and garments. There are some hard surfaces items where you must use spray adhesive like awards plaques where tape could damage the edges.  For those items and your soft goods, it is very important that you spray the adhesive correctly. You must spray the printed side of the transfer paper, not the substrate with a very light and fine mist. To do this you should spray the transfer paper from about 2 feet away in firm quick spray over the transfer paper. If you get any splotches or excessively wet areas you will have trouble with the ink transferring correctly in that area. Make sure the transfers only gets a light fine mist of the correct tack adhesive. I suggest this Product

Check out the video showing how this is done!

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Heat Press Pressure in Direct-to-Garment Printing – There’s still much confusion about the details of DTG printing, and unfortunately much misinformation. There are two steps to look at when it comes to your heat press.

Number 1 is pretreating. Once you’ve pretreated the shirt with an automatic pretreat machine on hand-held power sprayer, and you want to print right away, you’ll need to dry the shirt with your heat press. If the pressure is too light, that extends the drying time and more importantly leaves fibers standing up on the garment. So when you are drying pretreat, use heavy pressure. As a side note, if you allow your shirts to air dry, you’ll still need to press the shirt with heavy pressure for about five seconds before printing.

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Number 2 is the printed shirt that must be heat set for wash-ability. If you use too heavy pressure, it will press the ink into the shirt and mix the inks on dark shirts to give a dull washed-out appearance. When curing the ink on a shirt, use light pressure for the best result.