Increase Safety by Offering Reflective Wear
Jul/090
Reflective Transfers
The month of June is National Safety Month! There are a lot of precautions your customers can take to make their environment safe for themselves and their groups they are ordering for. However, your customers in low-light conditions such as jogging at night, camping, or working in the dark, need clothing with reflective designs to help keep them safe.
Along with the with screen printed transfers Transfer Express manufacturers, Reflective heat transfers offer the same quality and durability as screen printing yet offers a reflective property. As light shines on the print, it reflects the light back in low-light conditions.
Transfer Express offers samples of the Reflective heat transfer for your testing. All you need is a heat press to apply the transfer. It can be heat printed to 100% cotton, 100% polyester or a blend of cotton and polyester. Show this sample to your next customers to offer them a customizing alternative, and keep them and their group safe in the process.
E-mail Us if you would like a sample.
Sell Printing to Be Seen – Silver Reflective
May/090
Reflective Transfers
Are you looking for screen printed transfers with increased visibility? Then our silver reflective transfers are for you. Reflective transfers reflect light when hit with a direct light source. They are great for teams playing under the lights, joggers and police/fire workers. During normal light the print is a metallic silver color, but with direct light it will appear a brilliant silver white.
Silver reflective transfers can be applied to cotton, polyester and cotton/polyester blends in just 20 second using your heat press. You can select an Easy Prints® layout or send us your artwork. This type of print works best with bold designs and lettering to get the most effect from its reflectivity.
Reflective is a great addition to your t shirt printing business.
The Little Extras–Heat Printing for Profit
Apr/090
Applying transfers to mouse pads or coasters is one way to make extra profit.
One of our customers showed us a couple of heat print additions they have recently done for their local school. The first were coasters they made as favors for a mom/son dance. They ordered inexpensive coasters and used our digital Photo Prints to heat print. The coasters were only .24/each and they were able to fit 20 prints on a Photo Print sheet keeping the cost of the print to under .25. The dance was on a local cruise ship so they used our Easy Prints™ layout QRT-12 and their archived custom clip art. This is a great idea for both prom and wedding favors.
The second idea used some leftover prints from their shirt order. This time a screen printed transfer was applied to a mouse pad and given as gifts at a fund raiser. The Easy Prints™ layout used was QBA-170 and again with their saved custom clip art.
Let us know how you have creatively used prints for additional profits.
Add Sparkle to Your Printing
Jan/090
Have you tried glitter screen printed transfers? The glitter comes in red, blue, green, silver and gold and and works well on both light and dark color shirts. They are very durable and apply in just seconds. You can use the Easy Prints® layouts to create your custom transfer or send us artwork. The colors can be combined for multi-color glitter too. To get the optimal amount of sparkle be sure to choose bold letters and thicker lines so that there is more of the glitter ink. Glitter is a great way to add ”bling” to your spring orders!
More info on Screen Printed Ink Formulas
Butt Prints Custom Transfers
Nov/080
Printing on the rear side of pant or shorts with plastisol transfers, or as some call it “butt prints” is very popular and easy to do. Any design that has a natural separation in the print will work. You just want to avoid applying your custom transfer on the seam. For example, you could order an arch of the word BASEBALL and apply BASE to one side and then BALL to the other. The grid lines on the paper Stahls’ Transfer Express prints on will allow for easy alignment. Some layouts that work well for Butt Prints are QAL-3, QAL-6, QAL-1, QAL-30, QAL-21, QAL-27, QAL-29. Just avoid script lettering since this is connected.
Sizing your print depends on the size of the garments you are heat printing on. We suggest measuring the printable area of the garment.
Printing Grocery Totes
Nov/080
With our nation’s focus on green, one of the most popular ad specialty items are eco-friendly grocery totes. But how do you print these polypropylene bags? Our Elasti Prints™ , screen printed transfers are just the solution. Because Elasti Prints™ are a low heat application, they apply easily and do not damage the bags. Just be sure to stay away from the seams and you are ready to print. If the grocery totes are cotton, or a cotton blend, any of our transfer products can be applied. Only the Polypropyylene require the low heat Elasti Prints™.
Custom Transfers for Performance Apparel
Sep/080
Transfer Express® will help you decorate your performance wear!
Sold under brand names such as Under Armour®, Nike®, Adidas®, Teamwork® and Augusta®, or under its attributes dry fit and moisture wicking, we have the product to help you outfit your team.
Performance wear is typically 100% polyester fabric making it perfect for all types of transfer application. Basically there are two types of performance wear—loose fit, that fits like a t-shirt, and compression, or tight fit that stretches tightly against the skin. All of the Transfer Express® products can be used to decorate loose fit. The product just needs to be able to withstand a temperature of 340° F or 365° F depending on the product for perfect application.
For tight fit or compression performance wear you will need a print that will stretch. Both our new screen printed Elasti Prints™ and our full color Digi Prints™ will stretch with the fabric. Elasti Prints™ is recommended when printing in a single color or spot multi-color . Digi Prints™ can be used for all types of printing—single color, multi color and full color. In addition, both product have low application temps—305° F for Digi Prints™ and 275° F for Elasti Prints™.
