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Printing Methods

Heat Transfer Printing

At Innov Enterprise, we help turn your ideas and design into realities with the various types of products and garments offerings that are suitable for heat transfer works to create customisation for your team and organization.

Innov Enterprise

Heat Transfer Printing

Looking for Heat Transfer Printing Singapore? This printing process (also known as digital heat transfer printing or sometimes vinyl heat transfer) is a method of printing your design onto a heat transfer paper and with the usage of a heat press machine to apply heat and pressure, thereby transferring the image onto the garment, T-shirts, apparel, and merchandise. Heat Transfer printing has been around for a long, long time, making it a popular method. At Innov Enterprise, we help turn your ideas and design into realities with the various types of products and garments offerings that are suitable for heat transfer works to create customisation for your team and organization. We offer quality at affordable price T-shirt printing services in Singapore.
Past Works

Kindly go through some of the heat transfer jobs that we have done for some of our clients.

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What You Need to Know

What is Heat Transfer Process?

It is the process of combining heat with transfer paper to create a customized T-shirt or product. The primary materials used to transfer are heat transfer vinyl paper (coloured rubber material) and transfer paper (wax and pigment coated paper) and the use of heat (temperature depends on the transfer medium used and t-shirt design). The chosen logo, design, or image is printed onto a special transfer paper first, then heat-pressed onto the t-shirt.

They are widely used because it creates a heat-resistant and waterproof design on the fabric. It is one of the recommended printing methods when you need to print high-quality images that are high in resolution, multi colours tone images, as well as photo quality images. In addition, the colours created by the print image have high resolution and bright, eye-catching colours. The transfer paper has no restrictions on colour and design, it uses an inkjet printer to print images or artwork onto the transfer paper to create your unique design on the shirt or product. The other advantage is that it can print on low MOQ.

We are grateful to all our valued customers for trusting their custom requirements with us!

Our Process

You can check out some of the examples that we have here:

A Shadow can be seen if the print of the logo is small or has small text. We will match the colour of the shadow to the colour of the apparel so it will not be seen as obvious.
For bigger logo prints, it can have a die-cut effect on the prints as shown below without the shadow. You can have the detailed design and multicolour tone that it can achieve with some of the sample images below:
Steps for Setting Up

The following are the steps for setting up of the Heat Transfer Printing task:

1) Print your image onto transfer paper

Adjust and resize the image to the actual print size required. The design will be printed onto a special transfer paper which can imprint sharp designs and images from the high resolution images provided.

2) Place the printed transfer paper into the cutter/plotter.

After printing the image, place the into the plotter so that the machine can detect and cut the shape accordingly.

3) Remove excess parts of the transferred media

This is done using a weed tool to remove excess or unwanted parts of the print so that the print look just the way you want it to be on the shirt.

4) Printing onto the clothes / fabric

The following are some of the things that we consider before proceeding with the heat press process:

a) Temperature of heat press
The hot pressure temperature between 155’c and 180’c should be good. The optimal temperature depends on the transfer medium used and the type of shirt/fabric

b) Pressure used.
Typically, a medium pressure mode and contact is sufficient to transfer the print to the garment.

c) Make the apparel surface flat.
Place the garment or apparel on the heat press plate. Make sure that the apparel is placed directly on the board at the right position before printing. Double check that the pre-press apparel is placed flatly with no wrinkles or overlapping of the fabric as it affects the position of the print! Just like ironing your clothes, give the apparel a light press for about 2-3 seconds without printing to remove wrinkles that may affect the print.

d) Placement of the transfer paper
Place your printed and well cut transfer material (vinyl or transfer paper) onto your T-shirt. Check that the images are centralised and placed at the right position and angle before proceeding with the next step which is the heat press!


Do not press for too long as it may cause burn marks on the garment.  Be sure to follow the instructions in your transfer paper in order to create a perfect masterpiece of your art on the garment or product.

e) Transferring the print onto the apparel/fabric
Once the print is ready to go, we begin to warm up the top layer of the heat press. Lift up the top layer once the timer is up, next, peel it with care and once that is done, The image is imprinted onto the apparel successfully.

Heat transfer is also effective if the image is printed onto objects, including cups, bags, plates, since the wax image can’t be washed off with water

Check out the other printing methods that we offer such as Direct-To-Garment (DTG) printing, Dye Sublimation, Heat Transfer, and Silk Screen Printing that you can consider to create your own original apparel or items for your company.

 Need more information on the suitability of your logo to be imprinted onto the apparel for your school or business?

Contact us today via our hotline or send us an email at enquiry@innoventerprise.com and our friendly team will work on your request.

 Create your own custom apparel with us today!

General Specifications

Artwork Graphics

It should be in Vector Graphics or Hi-Resolution images with 300 PPI or above.

1

What is the artwork graphics requirement for silkscreen t-shirt printing?

For the best optimal silk screen shirts result, other than having the required equipment and processes in place from our side, the next most important thing is to have high-resolution images. The images that you need to provide should be created and saved at a high resolution of between 150 to 300PPI (Pixels Per Inch) in various formats such as .PNG, .JPEG, .GIF, and BMP. Please refer to the table below for a preview of suitable files.

It should be in Vector Graphics or Hi-Resolution images with 300 PPI or above.

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2

What are the sizes that we can print?

The printing size can be done as a small area over a pocket within 10cm x 10cm or used to print images that require covering a large area of Tee Shirts such as within A4 and A3 sizes.

Please note that the pricing is based on the print size within the dimension for easy calculation. We will indicate the actual dimension in the layout before the sample printing.

3

Is there a limit to the number of colours that we can do printing work using digital heat transfer onto your t-shirt?

This type of heat transfer method can be used for multi-tone colour, solid colours, reflective, as well as glitter effects on the product. It is most often used to customize the name and number on the T-shirts, jerseys, product items, vests, and safety work wears.

4

How do we determine the pricing for silk screen printing?

The pricing is determined based on the following attributes:

  1. Is the size of the printing base on the small print, A4 size print, or A3 size printing?
  2. The bigger the print size, the price will be higher.
  3. The total number of the same prints required?
  4. Although it does not have the same setup cost as compared to silkscreen printing, it also follows the principles of being cheaper if you print more.
  5. What is the Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ)?

As the image or artwork is directly printed onto the transfer paper, it does not require MOQ of 30 pieces although the price will be significantly higher when you print less than 10 pieces.

 Please refer to our online apparel catalogue for the ready-stock apparel for your selection that may suit you and your designs.

5

How long does it take to get our end product upon confirmation?

Typically, our turnaround time is within 2 weeks upon confirmation based on 50 to 100 pieces. However, if you need it sooner, please contact us and we will check with our production schedule on the feasibility to deliver within your requested timeline.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Heat Transfer printing services can be applied on t-shirts, polo tees, jackets, singlets, caps, gifts such as mugs, other merchandise, and most of the products that are available in our online catalogue. If you are not sure if a particular product or fabric is suitable for this heat printing method, please feel free to contact us for more information.
For the best optimal heat press printing result, other than having the required equipment and processes in place from our side, the next most important thing is to have high-resolution images. The images that you need to provide should be created and saved at a high resolution of between 150 to 300PPI (Pixels Per Inch) in various formats such as. PNG, JPEG, GIF, and BMP. Please refer to the table below for a preview of suitable files.