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I have just bought out a business and have aquired loads of transfers with no instructions,
Most are rubbish but I have a few nice ones some are 2 part transfers which appear to possibly be glue which is intended for a type of foil on top one of the glue designs I have has been done with a silver foil and another with a really nice multicoloured its a very thin stuff very flexible and seems more like its " melted" into a t shirt rahter than sitting on the top.
Can any one that has any idea what I am talking about direct me to whatever foil I need to go on the top of these transfers.

I have seen this foil transfere product a few times over the years, and a demonstration has never worked out, and the rep has had to talk even more S**t with egg on their face.
The technology is prehistoric, - before colour printers, PANTONE sold these sheets of film in their specific colour range, and a graphic designer would create the design, and xerox it.
Then, they would cover the xerox copy with the special (expensive) film, - and put it through a (special??) HEAT laminator.
The PANTONE coloured sheet would only stick to the xerox toner, - and the graphic designer could show the mockup to the client prior to print approval.
This film has been kicking around the tshirt printing industry for a while, - the idea being, you press a reversed toner transfere onto the garment, and then make the foil film stick to the toner transfere, - so you can produce a highly detailed gold/silver/whatever design, - on any coloured garment.
Problem , - I have never seen it work (even slightly) consistantly...... love to be proved wrong!

logobear;52596 wrote:I have seen this foil transfere product a few times over the years, and a demonstration has never worked out, and the rep has had to talk even more S**t with egg on their face.
The technology is prehistoric, - before colour printers, PANTONE sold these sheets of film in their specific colour range, and a graphic designer would create the design, and xerox it.
Then, they would cover the xerox copy with the special (expensive) film, - and put it through a (special??) HEAT laminator.
The PANTONE coloured sheet would only stick to the xerox toner, - and the graphic designer could show the mockup to the client prior to print approval.
This film has been kicking around the tshirt printing industry for a while, - the idea being, you press a reversed toner transfere onto the garment, and then make the foil film stick to the toner transfere, - so you can produce a highly detailed gold/silver/whatever design, - on any coloured garment.
Problem , - I have never seen it work (even slightly) consistantly...... love to be proved wrong!

i have some foil transfers, they were in a pack at a wholesalers i go to, and designed for the home market - they are crap too

Thanks for the reply, I have seen the foil lamiator you have explained for card crafts, the " samples " of this in the stock I got are the only nicely done ones out of 3 boxes of badly printed sample stock, if this was complicated I am not sure they would have made such a good job of them lol
I have been looking for info on this and have seen that hot foil stamping film is used now I cant imagine that to be washable, so I am not sure thats right.

mrs maggot;52601 wrote:i have some foil transfers, they were in a pack at a wholesalers i go to, and designed for the home market - they are crap too

lol looks like another idea down the loo b4 I start with it

Cadcut direct have a channel on YouTube. One of their 30min videos taken last year shows several ways to apply foil. It might be worth a look before you bin it all.

Imme;52605 wrote:Cadcut direct have a channel on YouTube. One of their 30min videos taken last year shows several ways to apply foil. It might be worth a look before you bin it all.

cheers for the info I will try and find it

This is the video I mentioned. Hope it is of some help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdKdwEtoj3U&feature=plcp

Just remember the best thing with foil is not to completely cover the meat - oops wrong forum :rolleyes:

Imme;52672 wrote:This is the video I mentioned. Hope it is of some help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdKdwEtoj3U&feature=plcp

thanks for that yes it helps a lot and theirs come out ok! some great tutorials on there as well another day no cleaning up will be done lol!