Hey friends! Dave here with Transfer Express, and today we are getting fancy with foils!
That's right, we are covering everything heat transfer foil from best practices with your
artwork how to order and then all the way through the simple two-step application now best part of
all there is no need to cut or weed with these screen printed transfers from transfer express
they come ready to apply making these the best option for your larger quantity orders but
with quantities for screen printing as low as just six pieces they may be the simple shiny solution
for your shirts in any order size so are you ready let's roll if you are new to transfer express we
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heat transfer foil doesn't have to be confusing or intimidating and even though it's a two-step
process it doesn't need to be complicated at all it is just as easy to use as any other heat
transfer now before we get too in depth our supply list for today is going to be limited to just
a heat press and i've got the hotronix 16x20 auto open clam shell right behind me heating up
and ready to go so let's jump on over to transferexpress.com to get started we mentioned
applying heat transfer foil is a two-step process and ordering is also a two-step process the foil
itself and the adhesive the foil will be adhering to so first up let's go get the foil we'll click
here on our products in our main navigation menu and then to heat transfers next since these
are screen printed transfers we're going to click on screen printed and here you can see
all of our awesome plastisol ink transfers and tucked in right here are the heat transfer foils
this is where we could select from the 12 different colors we stock here at transfer
express they all come as 10 packs of foil sheets in a convenient 12 by 15 inch size perfectly
matched to the 11 and a quarter by 14 inch sheet size for the actual screen printed transfers now
once we select the color and quantity that we want right here we can add these to the cart and then
swing on over to the easy view online designer by clicking the order transfers tab here at the
top now in easy view online designer this is where we are going to order our screen printed transfers
for our foil adhesive of course you could upload your own designs right here using the upload your
art button or you could design online using the huge catalog of customizable layouts and clipart
for our example here today we are going to whip up a quick layout using the artwork here in the
designer but before we start designing we're going to start by changing our product type in
the bottom left you can see it's defaulted right now to screen printed and goof proof so we'll just
select screen print as our method and then foil adhesive as our product type now let's get to
the design we'll open the layouts tab by clicking here on the left hand side and just search local
in our search bar here at the top now you'll see our options load and this layout right here qpr 34
looks awesome and it's what we're going to use for our example here today once you click it's added
to your artboard now this artwork pulls in with some distressing but we could easily just click
clear next to the distress effect controls here in the edit menu and they're gone now
with any of these customizable layouts you could easily just double click on the text to change it
here instead of drink we're going to change this to explore and michigan here at the bottom we'll
double click and change this over to arizona now just as easy as changing the text we could change
the state shape here too let's select the state of michigan right here by itself and then check
the edit menu on the left hand side where it says replace clipart with just a click we could replace
it with more clip art so now that we selected clipart let's search arizona in the search bar and
grab our new silhouette state shape let's add some fun texture to the state by selecting pattern fill
with our new clip art selected aztec 2 looks to be exactly what we're looking for now you'll see
that this aztec pattern is actually kind of quite detailed but it's going to work great for our heat
transfer foil now if we left the distressing on our artwork the tiny little edges and our show
through areas may close up and not look great with the foil but these solid shapes in these patterns
are going to look fine once our pattern is set we can adjust all of these colors over to the
foil adhesive inks they look a little gray here in the designer but they'll actually print more clear
now just by selecting each swatch at the top of the edit menu you can easily swap these colors out
to top this design off let's outline the entire state shape so we'll go back down to the effects
at the bottom of the edit menu and select outline here we're just going to select touching outline
and then adjust the thickness of our line to our liking with these little plus and minus buttons
there we go it looks great now ensuring all of our ink colors are set over to the foil adhesive
including that new outline we just put on there and we'll resize our artwork here a little bit
double check our dimensions right on the left hand side and we are good to go then
we'll head down to the bottom and set our quantity details and you're going to see
active pricing populate at the bottom right along with an accurate turn time of course we
still have some room on our sheet here where we could fit some additional artwork we need
to maximize our printing now once we're all set we can click next review all of our details
and artwork one more time and add this to our cart now once our transfers arrive we'll get everything
ready for printing we've got our heat press back here set to 340 degrees for eight seconds at a
medium to firm pressure for our first adhesive press now let's press it first step is going
to be loading our shirt onto the heat press so we have a nice next level 3600 here one of my
favorite 100 cotton all blank t-shirts so we'll just go ahead and align our shirt onto our press
grabbing the side seams and opening it up like a pillow case threading it right onto the press
and then just checking our sleeves to make sure we're aligned nice and center everything looks
fantastic the shoulder seams lined up properly right here and a great benefit of the hp tag along
platen once we're all set we are going to do a pre-press on this so that's going to remove any
moisture and wrinkles doesn't have to be a full press for eight seconds just a couple seconds
and that's going to make sure that our transfer adheres properly
once we're all set we're going to go ahead and grab
our foil adhesive transfer that we cut out of our gang sheet now this one we're going to lay
ink side facing down onto the garment so we'll go ahead and flip this and put it right here
on our shirt i'm gonna go about two fingers down from collar because the graphic
is so wide so the center of it is falling right on in where the armpit sleeves are
so we know it's nice and centered on the graphic now we'll go ahead and press this
for that 340 degrees for eight seconds and a medium to firm pressure and this will be
a hot peel just like our goof proof so as soon as the press opens we'll peel the carrier away
and our hot peel
the next step is going to take our time and while we're still going to be at 340 degrees
we're going to take our time and bump it up to 30 seconds we're going to take our foil
and lay it down right over top of our graphic now you do want to have the foil side facing up
see that our foil is on there nice and good
we'll gently take our shirt off the press and lay it down ready to cool and we'll peel
you can see here some of these super fine lines and this line here filled in just a tiny bit
and that kind of shows the limitations of how fine a detail you could give it that foil
but even here some of this negative space is all intact and looks great and you can
see some of these small lines here and even down anywhere and this pattern looks fantastic
so while we have a two-step process here for our foil heat transfers it's not really any
more complicated than pressing any type of heat transfer i hope you feel confident to order your
own foil transfers and add some fancy fashionable looks to your next project of course at transfer
express we are dedicated to helping you and your t-shirt business thrive be sure you're
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helpful content that we are releasing every single week but until next time i'm dave happy pressing