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I have been given a Welsh Flag to print a couple of words on, in black.

I basically have one shot at it, so could anyone tell me what time and temp I should use. I will be using a Ricoh printer with Sawgras inks.

thanks

I'm assuming it's on the white section

If I only had one shot I'd use vinyl, and have.

Id probably do 185 and 50 secs if I were trying it but with only one shot yes it's a risk, I've done a flag before but as it needed multiple presses I went the vinyl route and that was difficult too! Don't like flags much as a result �� you won't need a lot of pressure at all if you do it with sublimation and will probably leave paper edge marks on it which will annoy you

Hi All,

I decided to go ahead and sub print - the flag is for a friend so I had a bit of wiggle room and I'm a bit of a risk taker (lol). I printed at 195C for 62 seconds and it came out fine. I printed above and below the dragon, so black on white and black on green and the green looks better - probably because of the darker background - made the letters darker and stand out more.

Thanks for the advice though. I had considered vinyl, but had left myself short of time to do it.

for text there will be very little difference between 180, 190, even 200 for 50 sec or 60 sec or 70 seconds
its not fine art!

My concern would have been the potential for ghosting if large text with the paper lifting but you've obv. done a good job

I've done large vinyl images onto flags before, just tape the whole thing down and press in sections, works a treat!

You can always print a small black square and sub that in the corner as a tiny test. I have often done this with pro cycling shirts that I am often asked to do. Granted I can fold the thing inside out first, but normally there is always somewhere on something that you could sub something to test.

Glad it all worked though.