TEN Magazine April 2020 TEN Magazine April 2020 | Page 22

PRINTING
The story of Transfer Print
Easy to use, soft handle,
great durability and cost
effective – all these things
would not have been
associated with Heat
Transfer Papers in the past.
But now, as Laser printer
technology has become
more advanced, it has
allowed a new breed of
transfer papers which
break the mould of
those earlier papers.
It all started with printing on to white, light
and pale garments, although there were
some early transfer papers
available for dark garments,
it was hit and miss for many
companies. Then, out of
nowhere and it felt like
almost overnight, Oki
introduced the White Toner
printer range of LED Laser
printers and it changed
the industry. Today the
Oki Pro7411WT and
OkiPro8432WT are the
must haves for any size
of business in the garment
decoration sector of the
market.
These Printers allowed
the explosion of the No
Weed – No Cut full colour
logos onto light and dark
garments. As it says, gone
were the days of having to
weed out, manually cut or
trim your transfer paper
and then heat press it to a
garment. This meant that
the speed of producing full
colour transfers is now
much quicker and more
accurate, so order quantities could be higher,
and it would still be cost effective for the end
user. Less time weeding also meant that
many man hours were saved in production,
so everyone won all round – operator and
customer.
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It was simple – print your image onto you’re
a foil paper, heat apply the adhesive/opaque
backing and you were ready. No lining up
issues, no small detail issues just ready to use
full colour transfers.
The No Cut – No Weed had now, indirectly
introduced ‘No Limits’ to its title along with a
flurry of similar products in the range with the
use of the white toner printer. This technology
was also used to create a single colour
transfer that didn’t need the expense of the
white toner printer. Using a standard CMYK
or black laser printer with Flex soft transfer
papers you can produce intricate designs in
metallic, neon’s and standard colours and
again with No weed, No cut advantages.
Using these lower cost printers allows a lower
entry cost into the t shirt printing industry.
Many new businesses have started at this
level and upgraded to the OKI white toner
printer to produce full colour on to dark
products later.
If you have a good heat press – clam, swing
or pneumatic and they have good heat
distribution then you could use the products
successfully.
You can now use the same transfer to adhere
to white, black or anything between in colour,
cotton, polyester, poly/cotton, nylon, lycra
and more by just altering
your pressing technique
according to the garment
being pressed onto.
Depending on what printer
you have, means that you
could utilise one or all of
the full colour, single colour,
neon or metallic finishes
– in gloss or matt!
Finally, with the wide range
of RIPs that are available the
ink usage could be both
tracked and controlled.
As well as the garment Laser
Heat Transfer papers there
is also a range for hard
surfaces, allowing you to
print on ceramics, slate,
wood, leather, etc in full
colour, single colour, white
and metalic finishes.
Another big advantage was that these
transfer papers have a wider spectrum of
heat press times and temperatures. You can
now use a variety of different heat presses
and not forced to use one type of press.
If you have stayed away
from this process in the
past – now would be a
good time to take another
look into the Laser Heat Transfer Systems,
we are confident that you will be pleasantly
surprised.
Call Amaya Sales UK on 02392 590281
or visit www.amayauk.com
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