hey friends, Dave here with Transfer Express, and today i want to show you the absolute easiest way
to put a photo on any shirt! seriously, it's simple easy and by far the most cost effective
method for a quality result. You can forget about sublimation being limited to just polyester shirts
or any crazy at home printing the cutting masking weeding... no, no, no, you don't need direct to
garment or any of those expensive supplies- just a heat press so are you ready? let's get to it!
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now you could print just photos or combine your photos with other elements like text or clipart
or just upload your artwork and go either way i'm going to show you how simple and easy it is to do
here at transfer express we do have a couple different transfers that can help you out
depending on the scope of your project but i want to lay out some basics here on what
transfer to use when so first for small jobs and i'm talking any quantity under 12 with two
to three colors in the design or photographs like we're talking about today ultra color max is going
to be your best bet there is no minimum quantity and you could gank sheet or order single images
up to 22 by 22 inches seriously really cool now it prints on cotton polyester or cotton poly blends
in any color fabric lights or darks you don't need just white blanks now it's priced by the
square inch too so smaller designs like left chest or hat prints upper back prints or even
tag prints are incredibly affordable regardless of how many colors are printing in your design
now for larger jobs ultra color pro is going to be the best option for you at higher quantities
it's much more cost effective with those price breaks which means more profit in your pocket
now it is only available in 11 and a half by 18 inch gang sheets so you could fill up that entire
sheet with as much artwork as you can again it works great on any color shirt made of cotton
polyester or blended fabrics and finally for printing on any material with spandex lycra or
nylon ultra color stretch is going to be your best bet built for maximum stretch and rebound
the water-based adhesive is the only solution for printing on those harder to print synthetic fibers
now if you're just printing on cotton polyester or blended shirts you're likely never to need
this transfer type so first i'm going to show you how to order and then we'll get to printing some
shirts in a few different scenarios let's head on over to easyview online designer at transfer
express to get started with our order now all you need is a free transfer express account
free is right we're not even going to ask for a credit card number to get you started
and we're also going to send you a free welcome pack loaded full of samples so it's a win-win
and make sure you're putting your proper address in there i'm going to put that link right here
in the video and down in the description below now here for our first example say we need some shirts
for a small group so we're going to use our ultra color max transfers here for this design because
we are printing such a small quantity now we could go down to the bottom left corner and
set our transfer type right here you'll see we'll click on full color and ultra color max right here
in the middle now we can import a photo and start building some elements now we can easily add text
change the font and even some cool effects like knocking out this little o down here with a cloud
so all we have to do is find this piece of clip art i'm just going to search cloud i'll overlay
it on our text and set our ink swatch here to show through and there you see it it knocks it right
out now if you're interested in learning all of the features of the designer we actually have that
in a full video of a replay of one of our webinars that i'm going to link right here and down in the
description of this video but that's the beauty of this transfer to produce anything this detailed on
a t-shirt for just a few quantity you'd be looking at quite the high cost anywhere else but you could
see here at just four quantity we're paying 7.86 for this image and now we can even add little
logos here on our transfer sheet that we can then cut off to print on the back of the shirts
maybe left chest on some quarter zips or even hats and as you can see they barely add to the total
transfer cost when they're priced per square inch now the final step here before we add our transfer
to the cart is a review step that's going to identify any issues with your files that may
cause any problems you'll see areas of concern highlighted here in pink here we look good so
we're going to click can be printed as is and go straight to checkout now if your artwork
does have some issues when ordering ultra color max our design team can help just select needs
artist attention and it's going to convert your order over to a proof for our artist to fix and
send back to you before ordering your transfers with turn times at just one business day with
our ultra color max transfers these are super quick too and now that our transfers are here
let's press them now for our ultra color max we're actually going to set our time to 290 degrees
and 15 seconds it's the same time and temperature regardless of what fabric you're printing on
now this shirt is a volunteer knitwear blank which is a great option if you're looking for made
in the usa apparel here we're just going to press this one for just a couple seconds just
to remove any moisture and wrinkles from our shirt before we put our transfer down now a lot of times
people skip this step and you don't need the full time just a couple seconds but when you skip this
step when you're pressing your shirt the inks are trying to go down while the moisture in the shirt
is trying to evaporate up so you're going to have a bad time it might adhere but this is going to
lead to premature cracking so just make sure you pre-press for a couple seconds before you print
anything now we have our transfer that we cut out and we're just going to lay this one right
down in our center chest location i'm going to go about three fingers down from the collar and
get it all nice and centered up now one thing to do to make sure that your transfer is centered
it's real easy on a carrier like this is just hold it up and fold it over to grab each part
and here i'm actually just going to line up the text because i know the text is going to be
nice and centered so i'll line up the text and just crease the top and bottom a little bit
so i have a notation of where that center line's going to be and then when i lay it down i can
make sure that it's directly centered not only on our platen if we're looking at the side of the uh
the text itself but looking at this center line nice and centered now we're just going
to go ahead and press this one 15 seconds with a hot peel so super quick and easy
ultra color max is a hot peel so we'll just grab the corner and peel
immediately when the press opens and there you have it finished t-shirt
and look how fantastic that looks and here's another one too but this time we had a graphic
designer send us this file that is just 100 ready to go we could upload it right here using the
upload button and then size this to 11 inches wide and arrange them with two per sheet look
both of them fit perfectly right here on this ultra color pro sheet and with ultra color pro if
we needed 100 total images we only have to order 50 total sheets so this breaks down to just six
dollars per sheet or three dollars per image now once our transfers arrive we are good to print
and with just a press and a peel our tank tops look fantastic ready for the retail shelves now
you can see here from all of these examples photos look absolutely incredible using the ultra color
transfers whether it be ultra color max or ultra color pro here we're just going to take a photo
that we took with an iphone and upload it right here using the artwork upload feature now it's
worth mentioning for best results we should try to have the artwork that is 300 dpi or dots per inch
in resolution at the size that you want printed so if you want it printed at 11 inches make sure it's
300 dpi at 11 inches wide now in the designer here we could easily add some artwork to accompany our
photos and with just a couple clicks we're ready to go so we added a few more designs to fill out
our entire ultra color pro order and bam we are ready to go and now that our transfers are here
let's press them we're just going to go ahead and lay this one down right here just a couple fingers
down from the collar so once we're all set we'll go ahead and press this one for that 10 seconds
and once our press opens we're going to peel the carrier away in a smooth even motion and there
you have it look how vibrant that photo turned out on that t-shirt it's absolutely incredible
now you could try these ultra color transfers for yourself like i mentioned earlier samples
are included with your welcome pack for just signing up for an account
or they're always available for free at the link right here and down in the description below
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all of the new videos that we're dropping but until next time i'm dave happy pressing