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  • Heat Press FAQs
  • 1. What is the purpose of a heat press?
    A heat press is the machine that presses a transfer onto an imprintable substrate. Using high temperatures and heavy pressures for a certain amount of time, the transfer is permanently embedded into the product.
    Heat presses are recommended for professional and satisfying results simply because standard laminating devices and home hand irons can not get even near the temperatures required for a reliable transfer. Standard transfers require anywhere from 180  to 220 degrees demand serious force in pressing. These temperatures and pressures are simply not possible with other heated devices.
        
    2. What items can be heat pressed?
    The following are some of the far more common items often heat pressed. The list by no means ends here.
    T-Shirts, Caps, Ceramic Plates, Ceramic Tiles, Mugs, Mouse Pads, Paper Memo Cubes, Tote Bags, Jigsaw Puzzles, Lettering, Numbers, Rhinestones/Crystals, Wood / Metals Other Misc. Fabrics & Materials
            
    3.What is a transfer made up of ? 
    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 imprintable material. Some inks are adhered and embedded to the surface of the material, while others (namely, sublimation) permeate the coating of the material.
            
            
  • CISS & Refill FAQs
  • 1. What is CISS?
    A CISS stands for Continuous Ink Supply System. It is the means of supplying a continuous flow of ink to the print head of the printer without the need to change cartridges. 
           
    2. How does it work?
    Special ink cartridges are installed in the printer that holds a small amount of ink. These cartridges are connected via small silicon tubes to an ink reservoir tank. With ink in the reservoir tanks, all the air is removed between the tanks and the cartridges. As ink is drawn out of the cartridge by the printer, a vacuum is formed that automatically pulls more ink to the cartridge via the tubes. Therefore, all the time there is ink in the reservoir tank, ink will continue to flow to the cartridge as required by the printer. 
         
    3. What are the benefits of using CISS?
    The main benefit of using CISS is the running cost of the printer. Now that the CISS itself has become very affordable, and buying ink in bulk has never been cheaper, the cost of the equivalent amount of ink in a cartridge is now pennies rather than pounds. Even compared to the cheapest compatible cartridges on the market, you are only paying a fraction of the cost.
    Secondly, the convenience of never having to change the cartridges when they run dry - because they never run dry! This means you can carry on printing and refill the CISS at the same time. No need to stop in the middle of a long print run.          
      
         
  • Badge Machine FAQs
  • 1. Is it difficult to make badges?
    It is extremely easy to make badges using our machines, and in fact there are children as young as eight quite happily making badges (probably at that age I would suggest parental supervision) it is however very simple to do, and most people pick it up within a couple of minutes!
         
    2. How to made a badge?
    Step 1. Type your information in an area approximately 3 by 2 inches. Leave room for a photograph if you would like.
    Step 2. Print the information, and cut it to fit in a luggage tag.
    Step 3. Glue your photograph to the information sheet, if desired.
    Step 4. Insert your information sheet in the luggage tag as straight as possible.
    Step 5. Press firmly to seal the luggage tag. Make sure that no air bubbles are trapped.
    Step 6. Attach the tag''s lanyard to a button on your shirt. You can also put a safety pin through the tag''s hole and clip it to your shirt.
          
    3. My image quality is not very good, why is this?
    It is quite frequently the case that the paper quality you have used is not correct. For example, if you use an inkjet printer, using a standard photo copy paper will not work very well. Photo copy paper is actually quite fibrous, and the ink will run along the paper fibres, this gives a very blurred and smudged image. It is particularly important for a small area like a badge so we always recommend you use the correct paper for your printer.