Updated By Teckwrap Craft On May 22, 2024
The best shirt for infusible ink is one made of polyester and is white, or light-colored! If you still want to learn more about experimenting with the shirts to use with infusible ink, here is a beginner’s guide and we’ll walk you through it. Excited? Let’s get started.
Infusible Ink is a product that allows you to transfer professional prints onto compatible fabrics using a heat source. You just have to follow a few simple steps to apply it. The designs stay beautiful longer and maintain their bright and vivid colors as if they are embedded in your shirt. They don’t crack, peel, or tear off.
You can transfer prints with this method using Infusible Ink Transfer Sheets or through Infusible Ink pens and markers.
If you are using the pre-printed infusible ink transfer sheets, you just have to follow these easy steps:
With Infusible Ink pens and markers, you draw your design directly onto a sheet of copy paper. Print the outline of your design on the copy paper and color it with infusible ink markers. This design you drew onto the copy paper is transferred onto your polyester shirt using a heat press.
A 100% polyester shirt is best for Infusible Ink transfers. Truth be told, since Infusible Ink works best on 100% polyester, when this material isn’t available what will work second best is something that has more polyester than other materials. 20/80 cotton-polyester t-shirts work better with infusible ink than a 50-50 poly-cotton blend.
A white shirt will have the best results when using infusible ink. But if you want to get away with white shirts try using light-colored shirts. The darker your designs are the better they will show on your shirts.
Infusible ink will work best on tri-blend shirts if the polyester content is high in them. Tri-blend shirts are made with cotton, polyester, and rayon. For infusible ink to transfer well on it, the polyester content should be more than 70%. If it is not, you will face problems while transferring vibrant colors.
Also, the color of the shirt has to be white or any light shade. Infusible ink is transparent. It will not work on dark-colored shirts.
So now, what blank T-shirts are you going to use infusible ink on? What if the only shirt available has a 40/60 polyester cotton blend, can you still use it? Yes, you can still print on it, but it won’t stay long. After around three washes it won’t be visible or will just be a shadow of your original design.
Using Infusible Ink on a 65/35 polyester cotton will result in a print that looks like it has been washed several times. Since Infusible Ink cannot embed well into non-polymer materials, do not expect the best results with your infusible ink transfer sheet.
Sadly, Infusible Ink does not work on a 100% cotton shirt. This is because the Infusible Ink heat-transfer process requires specially engineered polymer or polyester-based substrates.
These substrates are materials manufactured to comply with this special kind of ink as a permanent bond and work best on white or light-colored surfaces with high polyester count.
But for instance, if you want to design 100% cotton t-shirts and you really want to use infusible ink, you must use Cotton Infusible Ink Solution spray on them. For example, if you are designing a kid’s shirt with infusible ink transferring their favorite cartoon character, you will have to saturate the area where you want the design with the solution first giving it a polyester-like coating. This helps in transferring the design, however, the print might not come out as vibrant and be as long-lasting as the one on a pure polyester shirt.
White or light-colored polyester shirts are more submissive to infusible ink transfer. If you are designing garments for men and want the infusible ink decal to be applied directly on a black or dark-colored shirt, it will not show up. However, a technique called layering has been discovered that has made this process possible and easier. In this, the Infusible ink design is put on the white heat transfer vinyl layer and it works!
This way, let’s say if you are applying an infusible ink design on a dark navy blue shirt for boys, you will have to use white HTV as the base. Follow the steps of applying HTV and then transfer the design to it so that it will show.
TeckWrap Craft’s White Glitter HTV on 100% cotton to layer with your infusible ink transfer is a technique that has been around for a while. You can employ this to design shirts and garments for women and girls. You can use any fabric and it will work just fine since you’ll be applying infusible ink on the white glitter HTV not on the shirt itself.
For women who like a slight dose of shimmer in their outfits designed using infusible ink, this is the best way. You can create partywear and glamorous shirts using Glitter HTV as the base.
Q. Can you use infusible ink with any shirt?
No, you cannot use infusible ink with any shirt. Your shirt should be made of 100% polyester. If you are using a poly/cotton blend or a tri-blend shirt, the polyester content should be around 80% for successful infusible ink transfers.
Q. Will infusible ink work on 50% polyester and 50% cotton?
No. The design might transfer but you will not be happy with its quality and it won’t last long. The polyester content should be more than 70%, preferably up to 80% for a successful transfer.
Q. How to put infusible ink on a black shirt?
You cannot put an infusible ink design directly on a black shirt. You will have to use white HTV as the base and then apply the design to it.
Q. How to put infusible ink designs on colored shirts?
You can easily put infusible ink designs on colored polyester shirts if the shade is light. For dark-colored shirts, you will have to use white HTV as the base and then put the infusible ink design on it.
Hence it is concluded that the best shirt for infusible ink is the one made with 100% polyester. If you are using a poly/cotton or tri-blend shirt, the polyester content should be up to 80% for the designs to transfer well and stay vibrant.
For the best results, work with premium quality infusible ink sheets or markers and use the right fabric. If you are using HTV as your base, visit TeckWrap Craft for eye-catching, high-grade white heat transfer vinyl.
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Lo recomiendo 100% Me encanta el resultado! Fácil de aplicar! Excelente!!!!
Both of my prints are mess up because of transfer vinyl did work the printer bites the material so if I get to buy the material again? Is not I’m going to put in the trash 🗑️ because is not good for me.
