Hey friends, Dave here with Transfer Express and today, I want to show you a quick tip on how you
could fix scorched polyester shirts we've all been there printing on some 100 polyester shirts
maybe even with a low temperature transfer and you pull it off the press just to see
a nice little box scorched right into the garment now we did put a video together linked
right here and in the description below where we talk about why polyester scorches
and how to avoid it and if you're interested in learning more be sure to check that video out but
odds are you're here either because you've been in this position before or your heart is racing
in panic right now because you may have just ruined some shirts but have
no fear there's no magic peroxide sprays or laundering needed we're going to show you
how you could salvage that shirt and have a sellable product with stuff you probably
just have lying around your home or shop so are you ready let's get right into it
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videos like this one every single week i will say right off the bat this is not meant as a solution
for large runs of shirts choosing the right transfer type for heat sensitive garments and
watching the temperature of your heat press will always be the first step to avoiding scorching
polyester or any synthetic garments now we saw this tip that we're going to show you on tiktok
and had to try it ourselves needless to say we were shocked with how effective it was so
when you're in a pinch this will work now the only supplies that we'll need is a household iron
or what works even better is a cricut easy press mini now this thing actually is kind of cool for
the price and for printing small inside labels it does a surprisingly decent job we made a video on
that one printing some inside tags with the screen printed transfers and we even did some
wash testing and we'll link that one right here and in the description below as well but where
this thing really shines is helping salvage those hard scorch lines in any type of apparel now first
things first let's take our mini press or iron and plug it in you're going to want the low or medium
setting just like we have right here and when it turns green you're good to go now our goal here
isn't to scorch the shirt more but instead we're going to feather or soften the edge of that scorch
so it is much less noticeable so the first step to fixing this is we're going to lay
our garment down on a nice flat surface you don't want any wrinkles or anything in the back
like we have right here you can kind of see a wrinkle and seam that's in that we'll want to pull
that out to be not underneath the area that we're going to be let's say ironing on just because it's
going to leave that little seam in there when we start getting over top of that so let's just shift
this over just slightly giving us a nice flat even surface to be going on now if that's going to be
hard to do you always just grab something like a mouse pad it's going to give you that nice firm
surface slip it on the inside so we have an even surface to be ironing on so right here we have
our heat press set on the second setting you're going to want to test to make sure that you're
not going to be scorching the apparel more so you may have to go down to the single setting as well
of course if you're using an at-home iron it may be a little bit more difficult to gauge
how well that's going to be but what you're going to do is essentially just take it on here
starting with light pressure first and keeping the iron moving just move around the area and
you could start to see that that scorch mark now is a lot more softened up and as the more and more
that we're going to do this the more and more that hard line is going to be removed from the apparel
and you're going to really feather out that edge allowing you to see that you have nothing to worry
about and you're going to be able to sell this garment absolutely no problem you can see that
we're not necessarily going over the scorched area all too much but more on the edge around the
outside and once we're all set look at that right where we're ironing that scorch mark is completely
gone and we have a nice garment that we could sell now and look at that completely fixed that is 100
good to go now this next shirt that we're going to show you is a little bit trickier because this
is a tri blend but from sport tech and it has 75 polyester which is a much higher polyester
content than you're typically going to find in a tri-blend shirt but it's super soft and has that
nice moisture wicking ability because of that high polyester content same thing here we're going to
use our easy press on the second setting and just start moving around on that nice firm flat surface
see now we have 100 polyester in this soft shell jacket
with this texture let's show you how easy it is to take that scorch right out
check that out
alright now go fix that scorch for yourself and let us know if it worked for you
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