Try This: Printable Flex Heat Transferring with a Cutting Plotter

Flex is excellent for textile heat transferring as it is highly flexible and tender with exceptional elongation and perfectly adheres to the textile with cracking-free capability. This tutorial shows you how to heat transfer an image on any type of Flex material to a T-shirt. A cutting plotter, an eco-solvent printer, a heat press machine, and some Flex is all you need to complete a customized T-shirt full of fun and creativity.

Parameters:

Speed: 60

Force: 75

Offset: 0.275

Quality: Normal

Heat transfer temperature: 130 C (approximately 266 F). Note: the machine in this example uses 130 C, but each brand will have different effects, usually between 120-150 C (248-302 F) is a safe bet.

Heat transfer time: 15 seconds

Step one: Create the image

Images courtesy GCC

Create an image with a contour line and registration marks in CorelDRAW or Illustrator and print it out on a heat transfer printable Flex by an eco-solvent printer.

Step two: Cut the image

Cut your image using a cutting plotter.

Step three: Prepare the Flex

Firmly fix the printable Flex on the heat transfer backing and remove the backing.

Step four: Complete the transfer

Place a Teflon sheet over the T-shirt and press the heat transfer backing with the printed image on the T-shirt using a heat press machine at 150 C for 15 seconds.

Now you have a customized T-shirt.