Know your options and get the most out of your textile embellishment with our heat transfer blog.
DEBOSSING - GET MORE OUT OF YOUR GARMENT
Customise your garment with a debossing finish. Debossing is a popular branding technique that adds dimensional depth, detail and value to fabric or garments . We´ll explain in this blog this custom apparel branding technique. WHAT IS GARMENT DEBOSSING? Debossing enhances any fabric made of synthetic material by using a customized CNC milled metal plate along with heat and pressure to press a design mark into fabric. This creates a bespoke 3D look on the surface, resulting in a debossed imprint of your logo or inscription. Debossing only heat-presses halfway through the material which means it does not leave an [...]
BE VISIBLE - CHOOSE TRANSPARENT HEAT TRANSFERS
There is a question that we are asked frequently: “How can I implement a logo discreetly and still make it recognizable on a garment?” There are fundamentally two options to execute your design, tone-on-tone or alternatively a transparent logo. WHY USE A TRANSPARENT FINISH… …when you could simply use a tone-on-tone heat transfer? While a defined colour is used with a tone-on-tone finish, you can embellish many different textile colours by using the same transparent heat transfer and the subtle look is retained. As a result, the ECOFILM I TRANSPARENT transfer offers a wider range of options which is also [...]
MIGRATION BLOCKER – WHAT? WHERE? WHY?
In this blog post we answer the following questions: Why do some heat transfers include a migration blocker ? What is the correlation between sublimation and a migration blocker? Why can this be a problem during the production process of a textile or fabric? How do we solve this problem? Which textiles, fabrics and garments may this affect? What do I have to consider during the design process? WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS DURING A SUBLIMATION PROCESS? If white textiles or fabrics are to be coloured, there are various options. One of them is sublimation, where paint evaporates from carrier paper at [...]
