Hey guys! Dave here with transfer express and with the colder temps comes everyone's favorite season,
that's right fall! And, did you know with fall comes the fun fall festivals the harvest festivals
the beer festivals oktoberfest the pumpkin festivals and so many more, and just like
with any event is a great opportunity to make some extra profit for your t-shirt business.
now, regardless if you're a custom decorator or run your own brand you can print it all with
transfer express. From event shirts for staff and volunteers or even merch to sell on site, we'll
show you how. Now, all the way from designing and customizing pre-made layouts in our free
easy view online designer to the finished shirt so are you ready let's get rolling!
if you're new to the channel, transfer express is the leading supplier of digital and screen
printed heat transfers for the apparel printing industry with two production facilities in ohio
and arizona, we're able to meet the demands for our customers nationwide. now, we are dedicated to
customer service and helping grow custom apparel businesses as our number one priority. everything
we do is focused on making sure we send high quality fashionable custom transfers on time and
on a budget. like i mentioned earlier events are always a great printing opportunity for t-shirts
and merch and these fall events are absolutely no exception. with all of these opportunities
throughout the season, transfer express makes it super easy to design and print custom t-shirts-
all you need is a heat press and we'll show you how it's done right here. our first example here
today will be this oktoberfest t-shirt. now, this whole entire gang sheet is our goof proof
screen print transfers and this is made with plastisol ink the same inks that you usually
see typically apply directly to the t-shirt. this main layout that we have set here for the center
chest graphic on the t-shirt is a variation of our layout QEV-206 now where this one traditionally
just says 'prost' across the beer stein here, we change this one to be oktoberfest now we also
added the little flag at the top with the 12th annual and threw in some extra little icons using
the clip art available in easy view online designer to kind of make this a full chest design.
if you don't need the entire gang sheet you could load it up with other orders that you have
or self-promotional printing that you are essentially getting for free because your customer
is already paying for the sheet cost to print the transfers out now regardless if you are using our
artwork or our layouts you could also upload your own custom vector or raster artwork into easy view
online design center too and then take uh any of our clip art or more of your own art and create an
entire 11 and a half by 14 inch gank sheet like we did for these goof proof screen printer transfers
enough about easy the online designer and the gang sheets let's get to printing a t-shirt so
i'm going to go ahead and grab our blank t-shirt here now the first step is to load this onto
our heat press now back here we do have the hp tagalong platen from hotronix and this is going
to allow us to print the front of the t-shirt and the inside tag at the same time so we're
going to open it up just like it's a pillow case and we're going to be putting it on a pillow but
instead of a pillow we're going to be putting it on our lower platen here now we are going
to be printing the inside tag as well so what you have to do is you just go ahead and reach down up
and in and we'll just go ahead and pull the inside neck up and out because we want to remove
any moisture and wrinkles into the shirt we're going to pre-press this for three to five seconds
now while you're pre-pressing it's a great idea to check all of your press settings your temperature
your time and your pressure settings everything looks good there now here on our bella canvas 3001
which is an awesome blank shirt to use for any decoration method they do come with a tearaway
neck label we'll just go ahead and grab our tag right here and pull it right on out now that we
have our shirt all ready to go this is just 100 cotton bella canvas like we talked about and
this is our goof proof screen printed transfer for this one we're going to be pressing at 365 degrees
for four seconds and a medium to firm pressure which we've already set and tested when we were
pre-pressing that's right so first up we'll take our main center graphic and we're gonna go ahead
and lay it down here right on the front of the shirt now once we're happy with the placement
there we'll go ahead and take our inside tag print as well that came from the same gang sheet and
we'll go ahead and lay that one down right here on this inside tag portion of the tag along platinum
and once we're happy with the placement and everything looks great we'll go ahead and press
this one for four to six seconds now goof proof is a hot peel so as soon as this press opens up
we'll peel the carrier away immediately starting here on the inside tag peeled away and right here
nice and easy comes right off with ease and there you have it a brand new
t-shirt applied in just four seconds and it looks and feels like it's screen printed really cool we
even have an inside tag right here on the shirt for our next example here we didn't necessarily
use a pre-made layout that was customizable but instead you could customize your own artwork just
building using all of the fonts features text and effects coupled with some of the custom clip art
that is available in easy view online designer so here just like our last version we'll go ahead
and take our scissors and just cut through giving us a nice even print and cutting it down to size
we'll go ahead and press this one three to five seconds and we'll be all set
and just like that our second shirt from start to finish all completed at transferexpress.com now
even these blanks were holding up you could buy at transferexpress.com in the wholesale apparel
section and the wholesale apparel section has tons of different styles of hoodies t-shirts tank tops
jackets even rally towels or tote bags anything that you would find from a blank apparel supplier
you could find on transferexpress.com so this layout here for the harvest festival started
out as layout qev207 now that one had a little bit different theme to it so we swapped the rope
in for the kind of thorns that were around the original one changed it from fall festival the
harvest festival and added all of the text and changed out the fonts while keeping the main
layout the stalks and the pumpkins all intact you can go ahead and change the background color in
easy view online designer just on the right hand side and you could test out a variety of different
colors or shirts if you haven't selected one yet or even if you have selected it you can
choose what's good for your project now the ink colors on screen differ widely from how
they actually look in real life which is why it's super handy to have a color selector swatch book
on hand with you now they're available from transferexpress.com as well and they are actual
printed inks of every single one of our 70 plus ink colors it takes a lot of the guesswork out of
selecting your colors and making sure your design is going to look great in real life
just as it does on screen in easy view online designer now this witchcraft beer fest shirt
is a great example of how using that color selector tool comes in handy when selecting it
just looking at this one you would think this was like a neon green and a deep purple or something
but it is not it is actually the pistachio color and lavender and you're able to make those calls
with confidence when you do have an actual swatch book now that we showed you some spot
color artwork with our goof proof screen printed transfers i want to show you just how great our
ultra color looks as well our ultra color comes on a gang sheet or available by the image size
this one here is just one of the large image sizes and as you can see there's tons of detail
different colors in here and you don't pay per color you just pay per image here we're going
to go ahead and take our hoodie and we'll thread it right on and you'll see just exactly how easy
that pocket seam kind of just falls away near the back of the press we'll take the rest of our hood
and you can either shove it down in here to make sure it stays out of the way or just let it loop
off of the platen now ultra color does apply at a much lower temperature than goof proof
anywhere between that 290 to 320 degree range with a 12 to 15 second press time so go ahead and take
our press pull it on down and now since we've swapped it over to a little bit thicker material
our pressure is a little too high so we'll back it right on off just a couple quarter turns
and see exactly where we're at and here we're at a seven perfect in that medium to firm range we'll
make sure that all of our seams are off and we'll go ahead and take our ultra color print
this one comes with its own challenges because now you're going to have to use a cover sheet now
because ultra color soft is a cold peel sometimes the static from the upper platen when it releases
especially on a press like this auto clamp can pull the edges up and try to peel this early
which could affect some adhesion so what we're going to do is we're going to use the cover sheet
that was supplied with the order no teflon no nothing else because that could block some heat
and we'll go ahead and take this and lay it down now aligning this onto your apparel is super easy
because you can see exactly where the print's going to lay right side up once we're happy with
the placement there on to the hoodie we're going to go ahead and grab our cover sheet and we'll
cover the entire sheet of artwork here now like i mentioned earlier this transfer type does apply
for a little bit longer so we've readjusted our timer and our temperature to now press
320 degrees for 12 to 15 seconds we'll go ahead and lock our press down and print our shirt
when our time's up we'll go ahead and remove the cover sheet now ultra color is a cold peel unlike
the goof proof which is a hot peel and a cold peel means we'll remove the hoodie from the platen
and lay it down on an additional surface and wait until the transfer is completely cool to the touch
before removing the backing now a great way to figure that out is just to feel the transfer
and if you can't feel any more heat then it's time to peel it we'll go ahead and start here
at the bottom corner and we'll peel this one right away one smooth quick motion
and our ultra color transfer comes right off of our sheet and there you have it an ultra color
print looking great now the ultra color does have a very slight clear outline around the artwork
which is fine for most colors but on some darker colors even like this blue it becomes a little bit
more apparent if there's any worries about that outline what you could do is just put it right
back onto your heat press just like we did when we originally printed it and we'll take our cover
sheet and cover it back on over and this on most colors makes the outline a little bit less visible
now of course on this second press you don't have to wait for it to be cool to pull it on off and
here we'll take our ultra color off of the platen and you can see that that clear outline is all
but completely gone and that's it that's just how easy it is to create custom t-shirts with screen
printed and digital ultra color transfers and the heat press you have at home of course if you
have any ideas for custom clip arts suggestions or layouts or anything you'd like to see just
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