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Heat transfers:
A transfer is made up of a carrier paper and inks. When heated to a certain temperature and pressed with a significant amount of pressure for a certain amount of time, the transfer inks are passed over to the garment. Some inks are adhered and embedded to the surface of the material, while others (namely, sublimation) permeate the coating of the material which will look more like a screen print.

There are different types of transfers: ink-jet, color copier/laser transfers or plastisol heat transfers. They are of course applied in different ways.

Most common is probably the ink-jet transfers, because they can be applied by an iron? were as other transfers might require a heat press to get a professional look or feel.

I will try and go deeper into this topic in the next coming weeks.

This is a heat printed label:

With the right equipment heat transfers can look just as good as a screen print:

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