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Sorry for another thread, but this is in regards to printing on 100% cotton and 50/50 cotton - polyester. I'm planning on printing on a shirt and hoodie. For the hooded sweatshirt, might be using Gildan 12500. I've heard that when using DTG you should print on either 100% cotton or 80/20 cotton - polyester to get more color and vibrance.
And then there's customer base preference. Some folk swear by performance wear polyester, some cotton. I have a customer who won't take anything but Jerzees blend. There are inks for every type of fabric. Poly inks, waterbased, high opaque. There are printers who know what they're doing and some who don't and some who try to make it up as they ...
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I am attempting to use a heat press for Tri-Blend shirts. I am pressing 50/25/25 (Poly, Cotton, Rayon) blends Bella + Canvas Brand. My transfers are 375-400 degree plastisol with med / heavy pressure at only 5 seconds. These transfers look amazing and have a super soft hand on 50/50 shirts and 100% cotton...but I am scorching the Tri-blends ...
The main difference in the shirts is one is 100% cotton (which you can not use dye sublimation on) and the other is 50/50 cotton/poly. You can do dye sub on those shirts, the design just wont be as vibrant as it would on a 100% poly shirt. Dye sublimation actually dyes the polyester fibers of the shirt.
You can't use cotton t-shirts for sublimation, they have to be polyester or have a high polyester content. It only really works well on white as the t-shirt colour affects the colour of the sub ink. If you use 50/50 you will find the print will be faded or look vintage and won't last as long.
Hello everyone.I just invested a lot of money into new equipment. I messed up and ordered 50/50 poly cotton blend from gildan. is there a way I can sublimate onto them so I can at least use these shirts to start. I really need to get some more advice on this subject I see to many conflicting stories on google.
Printing on 50/50 shirts should not be a problem. However, I would not call JPSS the 'standard' for transfer paper. JPSS is very good,and there are several inkjet papers that will give similar, or better, results.
Fabrics with compositions of 65% poly/35% cotton or 70/30 will work much better for dye-sub. My personal favourite is 100% polyester PERFORMANCE fabric (with moisture management and temperature control) - some of it actually looks and feels like cotton.
Well just a few days ago I printed on 50/50 (silk screened) for the first time then washed it and it came out terrific. My personal experience with 100% has always been shady. Nowadays 100% shirts have a protective coating (or something) to repel stains.