Know your options and get the most out of your textile embellishment with our heat transfer blog.
HEAT TRANSFER LOGOS - A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW
With so many heat transfer logos available, it’s easy to be torn between designs. The purpose of this blog post is to provide a comprehensive overview of various heat transfer logos helping you find the right printing technique to display your custom design. This comprehensive range of heat transfers, have been created to compliment a wide range of heat seal applications in the sports, fashion and workwear environments. They are fully compatible with the standard range of apparel, fabrics and garments most commonly utilised throughout these three key markets. We would however ask that for non-standard applications that the respective [...]
GARMENT 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 TRANSFER LABELS
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 HEAT TRANSFER LABEL... …when you could simply use a tone-on-tone heat transfer label? 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 label and the subtle look is retained. As a result, the ECOFILM I TRANSPARENT transfer offers a wider range of [...]
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 200°C [...]
BEST TIPS FOR TONE-ON-TONE GARMENT EMBELLISHMENT
Tone-on-tone garments are in sync with current trends. In this article, we will show you how you can create a unique and stylish jersey that will stand out in a crowd. Black is not always black When you imagine a tone-on-tone garment , you first think of some form of monochrome implementation within the logos. But basically, it is like this, black is not always black and grey is not always grey. In the end, tone-on-tone combinations are always a collection of different shades. There is never a single colour, due to the different materials that are used. The jersey [...]
