Vinyl onto clothes - what clothes material?

[jaffacat]

Hi

Im getting a Craft Robo with my set up so I can cut out wording to go onto t-shirt etc however, for sub work it needs to be specially made - can I heat press the vinyl onto any t-shirt/clothes material or does it need to be a certain type?

When I print it out will the craft robo tell me if I need to mirro immage it or does it need to be printed out normally?

Finally, will the words be individual and I have to stick them into the right place or do I remove the waste leaving the wording on some of the backing and stick it that way - im sure this is what you do actually just want to confirm before I spend all this money?

Thanks everyone for all your help & support im nearly decided what im going to get to set myself up!

Lisa

[Justin]

You can get textile vinyl from most suppliers. Xpres and Target Transfers so a great range for example.

You need (in most cases) to send the image mirror image to the cutter and then you weed the excess waste from around your image/wording leaving the transfer on a clear plastic carrier.

[jaffacat]

Thanks - thats what I thought dont know the technical jargon just yet lol

cheers as usual always get an answer from all of you, Lisa

[bms]

With the craft robo you can cut any font that is installed on you computer. You don't print with this machine, but cut the outline of the text. There is an option to send the text to the robo in mirror so that when pressed it is the tight way round.

You can press onto most fabrics - cotton, polyester, canvas. You need nylo flex for nylons but be careful with pu coated jackets as the flex might peel after washing.

We also sell flex and flock pre cut into craft robo sheets (215mm x 500mm) and there's a wide range of colours.

[accdave]

but be careful with pu coated jackets as the flex might peel after washing..

and unless somebody has a solution I would avoid fleece jackets. The flex sticks okay but the pile flattens and looks awful.

[Justin]

If you have a piece of the same fleece cut up you can lay this on top and the printed fleece stays pretty much intact, it's still a pin in the bum to get right though.....and you have to sacrifice a fleece!

[bms]

We lay over with a sheet of the red silicon rubber material. Still flatens the pile, but a good stiff clothes brush working against the fleece pile brings it up okay.