Have transfer paper silk screened

[Melva]

Can silk screening artwork go on transfer paper, so it can be heatset? Is this possible?

 

[ChicagoGraphics]

Why not just print directly to the shirt?

 

[Davidford7]

Yes. There are several companies that do this. We use Versatrans.

There a few reason to do it this way. You only have to produce a few shirts in different sizes. When one size sells better than another you just transfer more of that size, but you keep the cost down by getting a larger order in the beginning.

David

 

[Melva]

silk screen on tranfer paper

Thanks, I'll look up Versatrans, we need to do this for adding numbers to shirt sleeves at tournments.

 

[screener24242]

http://acetransco.com/index.php

they may have them premade for you.

 

[fresh]

http://acetransco.com/index.php

they may have them premade for you.

We use Ace all the time... You know how you have a good customer, and they want shirts, but only want 12? Instead of bothering my silkscreen person with a tiny job, we make them in-house. Transfers are also economical because you can gang images.

Full disclosure: I was gifted a $1K heat press from someone with deep pockets who bought it on a whim and barely used it. If I had to invest that much in a press, I probably wouldn't get into transfers.

 

[Salmoneye]

Numbers are available in standard, cheap and they ship the same day.