martin g. boekers
09-07-2008, 12:07 PM
I just returned from the NBM show and thought I'd pass on a few things I found.
The neatest thing that I found was a heat transfer release paper.
This was a special paper that is printed on a color laser printer. (they used an Oki)
The company makes a couple versions one for hard substrates and on for textiles.
They had samples for the hard substrates on wood, glass, acrylic, glazed ceramic, cork you can just about name it! AND it looked good!
The textile samples were on cotton shirts, canvas and a few other items.
They also make a "self weeding material" to transfer to a dark background material. It is a 2 step process but quick and easy to do. The one drawback is this material is quite a bit more expensive than the basic transfer. This "white self mask is $5 for an 8.5x11 per sheet, it does look good but at that price it will be hard for me to justify. The standard transfer is $.63 a sheet.
Color laser printers use a plastic type toner system that actually heats the toner so it forms a bond with print outs.
The nice thing about this is it transfers just where the toner is, so there is no box around your image. The hand on the textile is pretty soft.
This is quite a bit cheaper that dye sub and I imagine color management is easier too.
Plus the biggest thing is it doesn't take any special equipment outside of a laser printer which most of us already have and a heat press. The same with substrates you can use most any thing to transfer to not just specially coated items.
I see this is a great tool to add color to our engraved items cheaply and easily.
http://www.themagictouchusa.com/
ULS is working on a driver that will convert photographs for engraving.
The driver was easy to work with and should be avaiable in 6 months. (Only for ULS lasers)
HEY EPILOG ARE YOU LISTENING!
Appliques, I didn't realise how easy this was to do on a laser, but after talking with the Twill USA folks I have a better understanding of it and can't wait to add this to my "dance card".
I like this show even though it is a smaller one. I have been developing some business for larger signage projects and this helped with finding suppliers.
Not really much new stuff, but just finding out about the transfer material and seeing the demos on it made this trip worthwhile!
Marty
The neatest thing that I found was a heat transfer release paper.
This was a special paper that is printed on a color laser printer. (they used an Oki)
The company makes a couple versions one for hard substrates and on for textiles.
They had samples for the hard substrates on wood, glass, acrylic, glazed ceramic, cork you can just about name it! AND it looked good!
The textile samples were on cotton shirts, canvas and a few other items.
They also make a "self weeding material" to transfer to a dark background material. It is a 2 step process but quick and easy to do. The one drawback is this material is quite a bit more expensive than the basic transfer. This "white self mask is $5 for an 8.5x11 per sheet, it does look good but at that price it will be hard for me to justify. The standard transfer is $.63 a sheet.
Color laser printers use a plastic type toner system that actually heats the toner so it forms a bond with print outs.
The nice thing about this is it transfers just where the toner is, so there is no box around your image. The hand on the textile is pretty soft.
This is quite a bit cheaper that dye sub and I imagine color management is easier too.
Plus the biggest thing is it doesn't take any special equipment outside of a laser printer which most of us already have and a heat press. The same with substrates you can use most any thing to transfer to not just specially coated items.
I see this is a great tool to add color to our engraved items cheaply and easily.
http://www.themagictouchusa.com/
ULS is working on a driver that will convert photographs for engraving.
The driver was easy to work with and should be avaiable in 6 months. (Only for ULS lasers)
HEY EPILOG ARE YOU LISTENING!
Appliques, I didn't realise how easy this was to do on a laser, but after talking with the Twill USA folks I have a better understanding of it and can't wait to add this to my "dance card".
I like this show even though it is a smaller one. I have been developing some business for larger signage projects and this helped with finding suppliers.
Not really much new stuff, but just finding out about the transfer material and seeing the demos on it made this trip worthwhile!
Marty