Heat pressing onto Polos

[Nemo]

Morning,

Our Atkins press and Graphtec cutting both arrived yesterday. After a few hours setting up, got our first test shirt pressed and pleased with the result...

I am going to be heat pressing onto polos in a couple of days, both on the front, both left and right breast, and across the back. Do I need to use a teflon pillow inside the garment to do these? I'm trying to work out how the pillow works inside and protects the buttons.

Also, if I am pressing onto both front and back of a t-shirt, when it comes to pressing onto side 2, do I need to put a teflon sheet under side one? Or anything special?

Thanks...

[Justin]

If you can 'thread' the shirt over the platen when pressing side 2 that would be better. I have a special platen on my Pressmech with a slit where the polo buttons fall so no need for teflon but you should get around it that way yes.

[AlanD]

Morning,

Our Atkins press and Graphtec cutting both arrived yesterday. After a few hours setting up, got our first test shirt pressed and pleased with the result...

I am going to be heat pressing onto polos in a couple of days, both on the front, both left and right breast, and across the back. Do I need to use a teflon pillow inside the garment to do these? I'm trying to work out how the pillow works inside and protects the buttons.

Also, if I am pressing onto both front and back of a t-shirt, when it comes to pressing onto side 2, do I need to put a teflon sheet under side one? Or anything special?

Thanks...

I prefer threading, I use a smaller platen for the front and the button just fall over the side out of the way

[NASH]

or you could place a small cut to size mouse mat in between the shirt

[AlanD]

or you could place a small cut to size mouse mat in between the shirt

I'm sure that would work and I believe BMS sell fairly thin silicon pads and that maybe even better.

[Nemo]

Because of the based style of the Adkins press, you can put the shirt over the platen like this. That would be the most logical solution. I've been thinking of creating some kind of mat with a slit for the buttons to sit into, I had just wondered whether there was anything like that for sale but seems not.