one of the top challenges when you first get into heat printing t-shirts is knowing placement and
alignment of your graphic in this video I’m going to show you how you can save time and money by
following a few tips at the heat press to be able to press a center front and a left chest placement
let's start by using the Hotronix Auto Clam first we're going to start by doing the center front
placement and I’m going to start by loading on my t-shirt by threading it so that I’m working
with a single layer and when I thread this on I’m making sure to push it back so that the platen
is dressed with the t-shirt and it's reaching the shoulders of the garment at this point I’m
going to just pull out my sleeves to make sure that my garment is center of my platen
and once that is all set and it looks like I’m center of my plate and I’m going to start by
pulling off my collar slowly so we want to get that collar out of the way of our print
area now before I place my transfer I’m going to do a preheat
and whenever I go to place my transfer all I have to do at this point is just place it
and then I’m going to take my four fingers that is going to measure out about three inches down
from the collar and once I am three inches down from the collar by using my four fingers
I’m going to make sure that design the top of that design is reaching the bottom of my fourth finger
there that shows me that I am exactly where I need to be from the collar so that I’m at an accurate
center front placement and to get a better visual of this I can also pull out the sleeves
again because we want to also be middle of the sleeves as well now we can heat apply
the transfer we're heat applying is our Ultra Color Transfers so I’m actually going to wait
for this to cool and while I wait for that to cool I’m going to load on my next garment
and show you how to do a left chest placement so we're going to follow those same steps that we did
by loading on the garment and dressing the platen with the t-shirt
and before I actually move the collar off before placing my transfer I’m going to utilize it to
help me measure out exactly where my left chest placement goes so where the shoulder seam meets
the collar that is going to indicate where is center for my left chest so I want my design
to be center of where that seam meets the collar and then I’m going to drop down about six inches
once I have my placement, I’m just going to slide this off let the collar drop off the
front of the platen and now I can heat apply now let's head to the table and peel our transfers
now that it's nice and cool I can go ahead and peel my transfer
and with the garment laid out on the table you can see by just following those instructions we'll go
ahead and review those one more time four fingers down from the collar where the top of your design
starts, and it really helps by being able to dress the platen and thread it to see exactly where
you are center of that platen where that collar lays on it now let's look at the left chest logo
we're going to remove the carrier of our left chest placement and as you can see
we are exactly where we need to be for a left chest logo now let's review again how we were
able to find this placement so we are going based off of where the shoulder seam meets the collar
that is helping us align center of our graphic and we're dropping roughly six inches from where that
seam meets the collar now that can vary based on the size of your t-shirt so just keep that in mind
I am working with a ladies medium now to give you a reference based off of how far it is down
from the collar whenever we reviewed the center front we said we wanted to be three inches from
the collar which is roughly four fingers and you can see at the beginning of my design starts over
to the left but still that three inches down from the collar save time and money when it comes to
heat printing t-shirts by implementing these few tips and tricks for these two popular placements
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