Achieving good blow through on Flag

[bofferdahl]

We print to Kaspapir 105 and transfer to flag material and are trying to achieve good blow through of color so the front and back of the flag have a matching color. The issue we have is we get great color on the front, but only about 70 to 80% of the color on the back. We have clients asking for a better match, but we have not been able to achieve it. We have upped the ink limits in Caldera which helped a little, but not to the levels we want to achieve.

We run flag at 200 degrees on our heat transfer. Is there a max temp for flag material? Will more heat help? I would appreciate any advice on this.

 

[bannertime]

Just upsell a double sided option. Print two copies, one flipped. Sew in a blockout layer when hemming them together. Profit.

 

[Andy_warp]

Direct to fabric works okay...the backside isn't drastically denser than with paper. A little bit though.

It makes a damn mess! More heat is only going to burn more color off.

We do what bannertime suggests.

 

[cstone94]

We press our flags at 205 and also much slower than our normal textile. The color will never be the same front/back.

 

[eastyltd]

did u add pressure when transfer