I t seems like a great idea. Print out your designs on special paper, then just iron them onto the t-shirt of your choice. Yes, but still there are some things you should know about this process. We know, because the first time we tried it we were convinced it didn't work, despite having followed instructions carefully.
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First of all, standard printer colours are transparent, and that means you'll need to use a white fabric as the destination medium if you expect accurate colour rendering. We know, because we tried one black t-shirt. Non-transparent (opaque) colours should work on any colour fabric, but we hadn't tried this as of this writing. Remember that the image must be printed out as mirror-image, and may not be legible until transferred because images are reversed.
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Our first attempt to transfer the images to our shirts was one of dismal failure. We prewashed our shirts. This is a good thing. We dried our shirts. This is also a good thing. We printed the images onto the silicon-treated finishing paper. This is not a good thing. We failed to check that the sheet we selected from the package was in fact one of the 10 supplied transfer sheets and not the finishing sheet. Not only that, but we were so disappointed that it took us weeks to discover the mistake.
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