MonaVox said:
[color=royal blue]YAAYYY Fer Tshirt making. You got yerself a good set of instructions there.
Just remember to peel away the backing before you start to iron. I tried to iron Eurotrash Bono on a shirt and forget to take off the backing and fooked it up so bad [/color]
I did that, too... I managed to salvage the picture - it made the back picture look "antique."
OK, here's my number one all-important question for you:
What color is your t-shirt?
The reason I ask is because if you're printing on a white colored t-shirt, everything is fine. It's when you get into colors other than white that problems arise.
Printers don't print white ink - it's automatically assumed you're going to print something out on white paper, so whatever white you see on your printed image, it's just white paper showing through. My students found this out when they thought they could print white words onto dark-colored paper. Nothing showed up.
Anyhow. If you are going to iron on an image on dark-colored fabric, you'll need to find iron-on transfers for DARK colored fabrics. They are different in that the iron-on transfer is printed on a white iron-on doo-hickey and you just cut out the image you want, peel away the backing and place the iron-on transfer where you want it on the shirt. The kit provides pieces of wax paper to place over the image and you just iron it on with hard, firm strokes (this is sounding a bit er, risque... sorry)
Also, make sure your iron doesn't have any water in it when you are ironing the transfer. You can't use steam - it will mess up the image if you do.
I think that about covers it. I've made several t-shirts - ask Disco and anyone who saw me at Vegas or LA3 - I was a freakin' walking billboard (that's what Marina (mbi16) called me.
I love making shirts. I just finished a powerpuff girls shirt - with Bubbles playing the drooms and I added rhinestones to it. Woo hoo!
Moonie