Do you use Protective Paper?

[Stevo]

Hello everyone, I've just watched a Conde video of how to press a mug, in the video Britney uses Protective Paper which is normal printer paper wrapped around the transfer paper.

So if I buy a BMS DF1 press, do I need to use protective paper with each press I do

Thanks in advance.

[NikGrey]

I started off not using it, then I watched a video and started using it - then went to see a Pro at work who doesn't use it.. so - upshot is I don't.

[Angloman]

whats protective paper lol, not me either

[rossdv8]

i didn't use it in my old mug press, then found I was getting transfer through to the heat wrap that would sometimes come through. It only happened if I pressed a mug using a partial transfer after I've done some full wrap prints. i.e. the transfer paper is cut smaller so I have a white border.

Anyway, I've since started using paper, either plain copy paper, or greaseproof baking paper and after having the same thing happen on my flat press I now use paper or teflon there too.

I stopped using teflon on the mug press because it seemed to be messing with the print image. I was getting strange lines on the image. They stopped when I stopped using the teflon and went back to paper.

[pisquee]

Protective paper stops any stray ink getting from your transfers onto the pressing plate/blanket of the press, which can ruin future prints. Doesn't have to be anything special really, just a protective layer - paper works out cheap, and is disposable which means when it gets stray ink printed on it, you can churck it away and get another sheet.

[Renniwano]

I use a strip of silicone baking paper.. just saves any potential blow out on the blanket

[gorgall2]

Used to use it all the time, until BMS said it wasn't necessary. Not had any problems.

[JMugs]

Use it in my flat presses, never in mug presses. No logic there really.
Janners.

[Stevo]

Thanks for all replays, and yes this is the wrong section to put it in LOL I think I'll just try it out without the paper and see what happens, after all its not mentioned in the BMS DF 1 PDF manual I've read.

[Justin]

Moved thread into Mug Press section

I never use a protective sheet.