Hey friends, Dave here with Transfer Express and today, i want to show you the easiest way
to print glow-in-the-dark designs on t-shirts! now, just because i said easy doesn't mean we
won't have quality we're talking about using screen printed plastisol transfers today
which give you that same look feel and durability of a traditional screen printed shirt all without
the hassles of those inks emulsions squeegees and that messy chemical cleanup using screen
printed transfers all you need is a heat press no other supplies are needed no cutters there's no
weeding or expensive software or printers i'll show you how you could go from an idea
or your design and order your own custom transfers that ship out to you as fast as one business day
and apply in just 10 seconds now did i mention the minimum quantities start at just six too yeah
so are you ready to dive in let's glow if you are new to transfer express we are the world's largest
supplier of custom screen printed and digital heat transfers heat presses free customizable designs
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subscribe we're kicking out new videos like this one every single week glow-in-the-dark prints are
perfect for events year-round not just the haunted hay rides and halloween parties everything from
cosmic bowling to golf band merch bar crawls and even fundraising now before we dive into designing
ordering and printing our shirts i want to cover a few tips to keep in mind when you're planning a
project for glow in the dark inks first it's best to use dark navy or like black t-shirts the added
contrast really helps make your design stand out better when they're in the dark and glowing
now the same goes for big designs solid shapes thick lines and bold fonts smaller areas and fine
detail have a tendency to glow just a little bit less or at least they're less noticeable
in the dark alright and with those tips covered let's pop on over to transferexpress.com and get
started now here we're going to click on order transfers to open the easyview online designer
all you need is a free transfer express account to get access to this online designer there is
no credit card number needed no tax id no business license now there is a field for tax id and that's
just gonna stop us from charging you sales tax but if you don't have a tax id there's a little check
box that you could just click and you don't need one now here in easyview you could upload your own
artwork right here using this upload button on the left hand side or here in the getting started menu
if you don't have artwork no problem we've got a team of designers on staff ready to help you
work on a glow in the dark design what's even cooler though is bringing it to life yourself
right here in the designer in real time even if you can't draw a stick figure
you could design here in the online design i'll show you here with our example today so let's say
we need to design for a cosmic bowling night and some merchandise for a local planetarium perfect
projects for some glow-in-the-dark ink now let's start by searching for our bowling layout
here in the layouts tab we have a sports section that we could click to and then even a whole
selection here of bowling layouts we could browse until we find one we like here layout qbw 39 looks
perfect next with a few double clicks we can update our text to replace this placeholder text
here at the top and the bottom and let's adjust our font over to something a little bit more retro
click on the fonts right here and we could scroll or i know i want something a little
bit more groovy like starlit and here we could just click and it updates our text
and now we can bring in some new text for the bowl because the text here isn't really editable
but all we have to do is click on add text here let's set it over to compacta as our font
add an outline and then change our ink colors here in the edit menu
and bam everything is now set to glow in the dark inks and it's really coming together now let's
edit the bowling pins here to be solid fill so we can swap our inks right here at the top as well
now to add some nice little detail to customize this layout a little bit more we could fly in
some stars here from our clip art library and then there we have it a custom design that took
really just a couple minutes to create once that's set let's size it for a full front shirt at 11.25
inches wide which is just enough to squeeze onto our full 11.25 inch wide gang sheet now let's toss
this other graphic on here for our planetarium and you can see this dotted line shows us the
full area that we have for printing our transfers now this layout for the planetarium we could use
the search feature in our add layouts menu and pull it up i'm just going to search planet and
you can see it pulls up right here we don't need to change too much here we'll just change the
text after sizing to nine inches wide there you have it we are all done now to maximize the rest
of the space here on our sheet i want to throw in some extra graphics a little skull and crossbones
just for fun or halloween and then yeah a little fun ghost guy sized for like a cute minimalist
left chest for that halloween holiday now i did mention earlier not to do this small stuff like
this but nice bold fonts might make this turn out quite well and now that we ordered our transfers
and they have arrived they're ready to press here is our full gang sheet and as you can
see the inks do appear quite white when they're on the sheet they'll look white on any apparel
as well but when they glow they do have a kind of green glow to them similar to the glow in the dark
everything else that you're used to now to charge these up to get them to glow well at
night you don't need sunlight although it works the best artificial light inside fluorescence
or anything else will help them glow when the lights go out but let's head back to the press
and let's press these shirts so our first step is going to be loading our t-shirt here onto our
heat press i'm going to open it up and thread it right on but of course if your press can't do this
laying over top is going to be a-okay go all the way on and just make sure on each side that we're
nice and align nice and center i'll go all the way forward and then i'll back any collar seams
or obstructions all off the printing area so it's nice and flat now the first step here is going to
pre-press every single transfer every single time i pre-press the garment otherwise your moisture in
the garment is evaporating up when you're trying to put inks down you're gonna have a bad time
just pre-press three to five seconds and that's gonna remove any moisture and wrinkles giving
you a great smooth even printing surface plus it's always a great opportunity to check the pressure
of your press there we are at a seven right in the six to eight range that we want to be for our
screen printed transfers here's our nice cosmic bowling graphic and now we'll just lay it down
right here on our shirt i'm going to go just a couple fingers down from the collar because it is
we do have these stars up here so a little bit more or a little bit less i mean than
this three fingers that we typically do now of course if you're interested in getting the
center of your transfer perfectly centered you'd always crease it in half looking to the light
but here i know it's fairly edge to edge because we maxed out that printing area
and centered on this sheet so here we're just going to put this right here and once we're
ready to press we're going to press this one for 10 seconds at 340 degrees and it is a warm peel
so we're gonna wait about five seconds after the press opens to peel our transfer so let's do it
now we'll wait about five seconds before we peel this to peel it warm
and how easy is that look how great that glow-in-the-dark plastisol print looks on
that shirt this is a super cost effective and high profit margin tee for any apparel decorator
right here i hope that you are inspired and ready to light up your next project
with glow-in-the-dark screen printed transfers of course here at transfer express we're rolling out
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to stay up to date on all of the new videos but until next time i'm dave happy pressing