Re: Opinions and Cone at Siggraph

[nobeta1 <nobeta1@home.com>]

Jon Cone wrote:
One of the things I liked was the T-shirt press. I actually ended up
buying
it. We're going to offer the materials. It is really easy to use an
Epson to
make your own Iron on T-shirts that can actually take washing. 500
people
made free T-shirts, 400 made a mouse pad!

Jon, what transfer paper (or papers) did you feel perform the best?
Which printers were you using and with what inks.

Jamie Gannon

PMFJI
For over two years I have been making beautiful T-shirts with the Photo
Ex, a variety of papers, and a heat press. I was actually about to do a
mass mailing to certain shop in the US and Canada. Now all of a sudden
the ink has begun to run in the wash! This could have been a total
nightmare! Epson relations is supposedly working on the problem , but so
far all they have done is suggest different things I may be doing wrong,
one being that I was using a heat press! I have even had to use their
paper, which does not give as good image quality as the Copy Trans. It
also sticks a little as you peel it away, similar to the Transfer City
paper. If you have borders on the image that can often cause them to
warp.
The only time over the last several years I had trouble with the ink
running was when I used an off brand ink. As soon as I switched back to
Epson the problem went away. As long as I used 50/50 cotton poly the
images resist fading better than most screen printed products you buy.
If you don't wash inside out in cold water they will fade faster. 100 %
cotton has no fade resistance at all. Hope this helps some. Conde has a
line of T-shirt products and stay pretty abreast of developments.

Ed Mistarka
nobeta.com

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