Forever Transfer Paper Can Add a Great Benefit to Your Business
If you are a garment decorator, the chances are that you have embroidery machines, direct to garment printers, vinyl heat transfer and maybe screen printing. If you are not doing transfer printing, then you are probably missing out on extra revenue and wider flexibility.
A major benefit of transfer printing is its ability to be applied to most fabrics and substrates. You can use the Transfer paper to print onto cotton, polyester, glass, wood, metal, leather, candles, plastic and so much more. You will not have to turn away any job that a customer offers you. You will also be able to offer your customers the best solution for their order.
Let’s take you through the printing options that transfer paper will give you.
Printing Full Colour onto black or coloured garments.
This will require the use of a white toner printer such as an OKI PRO 8423WT or OKI PRO 9541WT The Oki Pro9541WT is the Pro machine and gives you more options if you want to print onto card and heavier paper as well as specialised print and giving you an A3XL print area. OKI White Toner Printers | Amaya Sales UK (amayauk.com) These printers will allow you to lay down a white ink base and give you a vibrant colour design. Of course, if you have a DTG printer and are printing onto cotton, you may prefer to use that. If you are printing on to light or dark Polyester then the transfer paper method will do the job perfectly.
Use Forever Laser Dark No-Cut Transfer paper for the perfect combination with OKI white toner printers. Forever Laser Transfer Paper | Amaya Sales UK (amayauk.com)
Printing single colour onto any colour of fabric or garment
Forever Flex Soft No Cut allows single colour printing on any colour garment, and only requires a standard black (Mono) laser printer. The papers are available in standard colours, metallic and neon.
This paper has many uses and can print intricate designs for fashion or personalisation, with no weeding. You can print onto most fabrics and substrates such as cotton, polyester, mixed fabric, nylon, leather, denim, paper, book covers, felt and more.
Printing onto white shirts
There are several types of Forever transfer paper available for printing onto white or pale coloured shirts. These are all one paper systems, and range from basic to high-end production. The basic products are ideal for printing full colour onto shirts, mouse mats caps etc. The high-end papers for printing on white, offer intricate printing with no weeding and no background around the image. One of these requires the use of a white toner printer that produces brighter colours on white shirts. The other one is a transparent product and works with a standard CYMK laser printer.
Again, if you have a DTG printer and are printing onto cotton, you may prefer to use this. DTG will give you a better feel on white shirts and cost much less to print.
Hot stamping foils
These are used in conjunction with the Laser Dark No-Cut Transfer paper for printing onto dark garments. Once you have pressed your A and B papers onto your garment, you can then apply the metallic foil of choice and heat press again. The Foil will only stick where the Laser Dark No Cut is. These are available in over 51 different colours and finishes.
Transfers for hard surfaces
Being able to print full colour onto hard substrates opens up a whole new side of your business. You will be able to personalise a vast number of products, and this could also attract customers to other sides of your business as well. There are a variety of Forever transfer papers for hard surfaces. Transfers that can be applied to wood, ceramic, slate, metal, glass, plastic and even candles. To apply these papers, you need a swing head heat press that can hover over the transfer.
The biggest benefit of transfer paper is that it can be applied to so many different fabrics and substrates which gives you total flexibility in your business at a relatively low set-up cost and it sits well alongside embroidery, print & cut and other garment decoration systems.
For full information on the OKI White toner printers and Forever Transfer paper please call one of our team on 02392 590 281.