Problems With Tea Towls

[James Fulwood]

Hi everyone,

I have a problem that I am hoping you can help me with.
Ive been having great results with mugs, aprons, coasters, and jigsaws, but ive just come to test some tea towels to see how they print before I start to design and advertise them.
Ive just made up 2 designs for a tea towel to use at home for a test and the results are terrible, they are all faded and the colours are not at all vibrant, they are much like my first mug when I had the paper the wrong way up.

I know these image go against copyright but as I said these are tests for me to use indoors as all mine have vanished

This is the first side I did which I could have be down to a poor image, when I clicked view Actual Pixels it did look a bit poor:-
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This is the other side, this time I took a HD wallpaper to make sure the image was good and still got poor results:-
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Now before I posted this I did do a search for tea towel problems and did read that the Trupix paper is meant to be good on hard materials and it is suggested that we use TexPrint paper for softer materials such as towels and T's.

I have however printer an apron and was very pleased with the result using the same Trupix paper, here is the result:-
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If anyone could please give some advice as to where im going wrong then I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks in advance

James

[Paul]

first of all. texPrint is better for fabrics but trupix is great too. it needs just a little bit more pressing time.


regards to your images it does look like my first mugs too. no profile waht so ever! are you sure you did not messed up anything with yours??
and whay print full size picture and ruin teetowels if you can use this same for testing. so pint this same image but much smaller and try again on one towel so you at least stop wasting your blanks.

do you pre press your tee towels to get rid of moisture??

[John G]

Are the tea towels polyester?

[James Fulwood]

Hi thanks for quick replys, yes the tea towels are printable double side from BMS.

The reason I printed so large onto the tea towel was because I wanted to make sure they printed nicely before I started to design and advertise, had I sold them straight away and they came out like this I would have been in trouble.

I did not press them first to get rid of the moisture no, I could try that.

I think the settings are fine, I just printed these 2 cushions using the exact same setting in the exact same room and temperature and they came out brilliant:-
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[purpledragon]

i think the problem is you are looking for the same finish on the microfibre teatowel as you get on a shiny satin effect cushion which you will not get. dont forget the teatowels are not smooth like the cushions rub your hand a cross the tea towel and you will see what i mean. i sell a lot of the towels unfortunatly ive never had the vibrant results that i get off everything else

[James Fulwood]

Hi,

Thanks for that post, I think you might be right, I think I will try print another one today but this time ill for something a little less colourful and high quality.
Ill post the results later today once ive pressed it.

James

[vex]

Hi from where to you buy those cushion covers please? Also do they come with the inside pillow too or is it bought alone? THanks