Tips for Making Iron-On T Shirts

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Chris, owner of Salon Teez for Expert Village, this is how to create your own iron-on t-shirt. There are a few tips we need to remember when creating an iron-on for our iron-on t-shirt or transfer. First thing is, is make sure that we have a software imaging program on our computer. This could be something as simple as Microsoft Word if we're using just typical phrases or just regular pictures. If we want to create our own picture then using a Dolby Photo Shop or some other type of image creating program such as Corel draw is also a good program to use when creating your own type of image. But just to put a image into the computer and put it into the Microsoft Office or Microsoft Word is one of the best ways to go about creating your own iron-on transfer. We also want to make sure that the iron is pre-heated before we actually use it and make sure that there is no water in the iron as well. Because we don't want to use steam when creating our iron-on transfer. Another great hot tip to remember is that most transfer paper is used for white garments only. There are transfer papers that you could find at art supply warehouses that are for dark garments and make sure that you are using that right type of transfer paper for the garment that you are going to apply your transfer to. Also remember when printing out your transfer, a transfer paper will have two sides just like any other type of paper. However, one side will have a line or a dash line or something indicating that this is the side of the paper that needs to go into the iron the printer first. So, make sure that the line is facing up. So that the actual transfer that the logo will be placed on will be on the bottom side where the plastic sall is and this will help make sure that you get great results when creating your own iron transfer. Always print a preview image before you actually print to the transfer paper. This just helps in knowing that the transfer that you created and that you want to put on the t-shirt is actually going to be printed on the transfer paper correctly and by printing out a test page first this ensures that your transfer is actually going to be the way that you want it to be on the transfer and we're not wasting transfer paper. Just following these simple tips will help ensure that your transfers will be a big success. "