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Heat transfers. To better serve your needs, we offer the ability to do heat transfers in addition to embroidery. This is nothing like the iron-ons that are for home application. We use specialized inks, papers, and industrial heat press technology to achieve results you may think were screen printed. With high heat and pressure, the specialized inks are bonded with the fabric, rather than merely applied on top. There are no set up fees or screen charges for stock designs.
Advantage over screen printing. Heat transfers' advantage over screen printing is that with heat press technology we can provide a cost effective solution for runs of as few as 6 pieces or up to 100. Again, there are no set up fees or art charges for stock designs. For very large orders traditional silk screening is available, and is more economical.
Advantage over embroidery. Heat transfers' advantages over embroidery are that it is less expensive to do a very large (such as for the back of a jacket or the front or back of a t-shirt) design and can be done on lighter fabrics. A large embroidery design, while more expensive gives you the most beautiful product with a higher perceived value. Heat transfers can cover a large design less expensively. This is a function of capital investment (embroidery machines are much more expensive than heat transfer presses) and time (it takes less than a minute to heat transfer a large design, while a large embroidery design could easily take over an hour to sew). In addition, we really don't recommend putting large embroidery designs on light fabrics such as polo shirts and t-shirts. Heat transfer doesn't have the push and pull of the needle and thread to distort and wrinkle light fabrics that we put a large design on. Heavy sweatshirts are about the lightest fabric that we recommend embroidering large designs on.
