xerox v280 -- tshirt transfers?

[YourCastle]

one of my agents/client just asked if we can do t-shirts. I've never done that before. Is there a substrate that both works well transferring onto the t-shirt -and- will NOT screw up my machine?

i'm guessing I'd print it and they'd iron it on?

(i'm just afraid of damaging my printers... which currently work very well, jinx)

thanks!

 

[jwheeler]

Before we invested in a DTG Press and dye-sub printing equipment, we used to try making shirts with print transfers from our konica minolta's. Neenah makes a transfer paper specific for digital toner presses called ImageClip. You need to get the right version for the color range of garments that you're printing on. I will say that these did work, however, the image doesn't seem very durable. Nor does it have a good 'hand' and it didn't seem like it would last very long.

In the short term, I'd suggest outsourcing it. Like anything else, track how much you do during a year to determine if it's worth investing in your own equipment to bring in-house. The new DTG machines make it very easy with minimal footprint to produce short to medium run orders.

 

[ReproElectroProspero]

I've used Neenah's Image Clip transfer paper in the past on a Xerox v180 without issues. However, the quality on ANY of these transfer papers are going to be lacking compared to a DTG machine. Even the best ones will start to degrade after 3-5 washes.

Only proceed using a transfer paper solution if the client understands that this will be a cheap/quick hack, not a product to expect longevity from.

 

[gazfocus]

I feel like when your agent/client asks if you do T-shirts, they’ll want something better than a tshirt transfer. In my opinion, T-shirts printer with transfers are NOT commercial grade products and should not be sold to customers.

Your client will likely be wanting/expecting either dtg, sublimation or screen printing and the cheapest option to get into is sublimation.

We have a DTG printer and absolutely love it. Before that, we did sublimation but the limitation there is you can only do light colour polyester.