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What is Digital Heat Transfer Printing?
Have you ever heard of printing real life images or complex designs on t-shirts without the hefty price tag of silk screen printing of 8-10 colors?
An example of a Digital Heat Transfer Printing
T-Shirt Printing Singapore price does not need to be expensive because of this method of print, Digital Heat Transfer Printing. It also has the capability to print full-colored designs.
As the method of print suggests, this is best used when you have a full-colored designs or images to print on apparels at smaller quantities (eg. 20 pieces).
Not only that, if you have gradient coloring for your designs, this method will print exactly the same as your photo-image!
Sounds too good? And the best thing is that it doesn’t cost as much as DTG Printing. Woohoo!
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1. How did Digital Heat Transfer printing come about?
It wasn’t too long ago before heat transfer printing was discovered by using a heat press machine. We are looking at during the 1980s, when a company, Stahl’s, created heat transfer materials.
The key player in the process of heat transfer printing involves the heat press machines. As machines were not advanced at that point of time, many things can go wrong each step of the way. On a bright side, advanced technologies have come a long way since then.
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Many different companies have spent money on Research & Development to create better heat press machines which solved problems such as uneven pressure, temperature & timers.
Today, we have very high quality heat press machines which can let us focus on being efficient and making more profits, than to solve problems that occurred in the past.
It is ever changing, and the method of print will remain an important printing method in the future.
2. What are Heat Press machines?
Today, there are many kinds of heat press machines that are available.
There are manual ones that are still in the market, and also the more advanced automatic ones as well. Even a hybrid version exists as well, with features of both manual and automatic.
New technology of heat press machines have capabilities of providing even pressure and temperature across the entire platen. We will look further at each step of heat transfer printing later on in this article.
There are many uses of heat press machines for different method of prints, such as Vinyl Transfer Printing and Sublimation printing, but we are looking at specifically, inkjet digital heat transfer printing.
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The top element usually consists of aluminium material that can withstand high temperatures. This will then be used to apply sufficient pressure and heat onto the substrates (inkjet transfer papers) onto the products.
3. Advantages & Disadvantages of Digital Heat Transfer Printing
To help you make a better choice when deciding on the type of T-shirt printing services, we have also come up with some advantages and disadvantages of digital heat transfer printing.
Heat transfer printing is also used to customize gifts for designs that has multiple colors, or if silkscreen printing is not suitable. If you need ideas such as corporate gifts singapore for employees, we also offer a wide range of over 1,000 unique gifts for you to customise!
Advantages
- Unlimited Color Printing – Flexibility on customizing any kinds of images with unlimited colors on the apparels or products. No color restrictions.
- Price – If you are planning to print a complex full-colored designs at lower quantities such as 20 pieces, it will be cheaper than
Disadvantages
- Price – Despite being cheaper than silk screen printing at lower quantities, it is relatively a more costly method of printing especially for bigger sizes like A4 or A3 sized design.
- Bleeding Line – As mentioned during the preparation phase, there will be a bleeding line around the designs. This is inevitable. On the bright side, the bleeding line is usually similar color to the t-shirt, hence may be “invisible”.
- Plastic feel – We used the heat transfer paper as a medium to transfer the design or image onto our t-shirts. Hence, there is a plastic feel of the design on the t-shirts. It can get very heavy if a large image is printed onto the t-shirt.
4. Recommendations for Digital Heat Transfer Printing by Ministry of Print
i) Digital Heat Transfer printing is recommended for customers who have full-colored designs which they wish to customize on the apparels at small quantities (eg. 20 pieces).
Silk Screen printing is cost effective at bulk quantities, but for low quantities, Digital Heat Transfer printing is the choice.
For this method of print, we strongly recommend it for printing on our reversible windbreakers.
This is because we cannot embroider on reversible windbreakers because the backing can be clearly seen on the reversible side. Since embroidery is not possible, we recommend vinyl transfer printing or digital heat transfer printing, both utilizing the important heat press machine.
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