See how you can get a five-color metallic look with just two steps at the heat press
When it comes to custom printing graphic tees metallic-like finishes is a sure way
to increase your profit opportunity in just a single garment
because this finish is so popular there are a variety of ways that you can utilize this
but did you know with CAD-CUT® Adhesive and Foil you can actually achieve a variety of finishes
and one of the most popular ones is being able to achieve multi-color metallic finishes by
just cutting one single vinyl in this video we're going to take a look at how that works
by cutting cad cut adhesive and heat applying that and then placing multiple colors of foil to
achieve that multi-color finish let's start by using the Hotronix Auto Clam the first step to
getting a clean finish with your adhesive and foil application is getting your garment nice and flat
on your bottom platen by threading and working with a single layer I’m working with a cotton-poly
blend and I’m prepping the garment by preheating to release any moisture or wrinkles in the fabric
The first step is to apply our adhesive we're applying this at 300 degrees for 10 seconds
for my adhesive application I would want to use a cover sheet here I did happen to forget that but
anytime you are working with CAD-CUT® materials you want to make sure you are using a cover sheet
adhesive applies at a light pressure and is a hot peel
As you can see when I’m removing the carrier it is exposing the adhesive and I’m going
pretty slow whenever I remove that carrier just to make sure that I’m not distorting
the image whenever I remove it now all that's left to do is apply our foil
and as I mentioned we are doing a multi-color design so I have all of my different colors
of foil cut up and we're going to place those on the design so that we can apply them all at once
it's okay that the foil is overlapping itself the foil is only going to adhere where the
adhesive is on the garment whenever I place the foil I’m just ensuring that I am covering all
the adhesive so no adhesive is exposed and then I’m going to cover with a cover sheet
I want to make sure I’m definitely using a cover sheet whenever I apply the foil because foil is
a cold peel and we want to make sure that whenever the heat press lifts up it's not
accidentally pulling that up with it from the static foil also applies at 300 degrees for 10
seconds using a firm pressure and it is a cold peel so we're going to wait for this to cool
to about room temperature and then we'll remove those foil pieces let's go ahead and do this at
the table once the foil is cool to touch you can go ahead and remove those sheets and as
we remove this you can see that the foil stuck only to where the adhesive is on the garment
To get the distressed effect that we did with the foil I used a textured fabric t-shirt
if you want a solid look and feel to the adhesive and foil application, we recommend using a
synthetic 100 polyester or a ring-spun cotton garment there are many creative things that you
can do with Adhesive and Foil for more unique ideas on how to use these products visit the
link in the description and for more information on CAD-CUT® Adhesive and Foil visit Stahls.com