I'm sorry in advanced.

So your printing on t-shirt transfers?

If this is the case its going to be quite difficult to get a vinyl cutter to cut the 8.5x11 transfer sheets your probably using.

You should probably either be using dye sublimation or get a print&cut system like the Roland Versacamm. You could probably come up with a dye sub setup for pretty cheap, the Roland Versacamm is about $15,000. Both will give better results than the Iron ons that you buy at Best buy...

Oh dont forget you need a heat press if you dont already have one.

 

We've played with cutting transfers on our cutter - a 24" Masters. It really won't work too well for a couple reasons. The paper is so thin the blade pulled it up or it cut the paper. We may have been able to tweak it enough to actually cut, but then there was the matter of line-up. It is virtually impossible to exactly line-up the picture to the cutter with a low end system.
The better idea if you are doing 1 or 2 color work is to use thermo-flex. We have printed shirts with 3 different colors of thermo and it has worked quite well. On a side note, we have also tried the spectra material for shirts and would not recommend it. For someone new to cutting and weeding it was VERY difficult to work with compared to the thermo-flex.
If you go to specialtymaterials.com you can read more about it. My supplier is Cindy at www.personalizedsupplies.com Click on the link for specialty vinyl.

 

I don't recommend a cutter to try to cut transfers you printed from your printer...

Thermoflex is a material similiar to vinyl in that you have to cut it and weed out the part you don't want. You can't do full color pictures with it, but you can do logos, line art drawings and type. You press it on the shirt with your heat press and it lasts almost as long as screenprinting does if you follow the directions and press it long enough. THERE IS A LEARNING CURVE WITH ANY CUTTER. So expect to waste material until you figure out how to set the blade, downforce and speed if you have never worked with one before.

 

From what i understand you are using heat transfers that you run threw you injet? If that's the case use a razerblade/scissors cut the image out place it where you like and apply.

 

Try giving Alan at Sky inc. a call. I think he sells a hobby type print / cut setup that might do you some good 450-449-0142

 

put all your full color images in a simple cuttable shape... thenuse thermoflex for you white letters example. Charge less for white shirts, & more to cover the time to break out the sizzors for cutting your paper

 

That's what we do... just make sure to put your thermo-flex lettering in first and then apply the transfer (they can't be done together - difference in times/temps). If you don't it will burn the transfers.