Printing on the hoods of hoodies

[ericheartsu]

Anyone ever done this? if so, any tips on how to set it up? is there a way to do this on the auto?


Client wants a print on both sides of the hood, and they are dischargeable, so that makes it slightly easier!

[ebscreen]

All the time. We use 10" pallets and place the image sideways. Whereas usually you can get away without
web tac when discharging fleece, you'll need it for this as you have such a small area adhered and a lot
of weight hanging off.

[3Deep]

We've did this many years ago with plastisol inks, slow go as we didn't have an auto back then, but still would have done it on the manual anyway I think.

[JBLUE]

All the time. We use 10" pallets and place the image sideways. Whereas usually you can get away without
web tac when discharging fleece, you'll need it for this as you have such a small area adhered and a lot
of weight hanging off.

Same here. They fly as long as its setup right. 12 inch pallets and a good amount of glue and your golden. Large ink areas will move around a little so make sure you do not need tight reg on the design.

[presspressmerch]

We've used screen printed transfers (very) successfully in the past.  We screen print them too, but a transfer reduces so many handling problems that it's hard to beat.


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[ABuffington]

I agree with transfers.  Unlimited number of colors, no rejects and gives the transfer workers something to do.  Through some shirt fabric over a just applied transfer and hit for a couple of seconds to make it look like it was printed.  Did this for Paul Frank for years.  Works killer on zippered sweats too.  Posted this before, but you can make transfers for the front, the back, the sleeves all over the hoody with just one 24x36 transfer sheet depending on image size.  On the zippered side just apply the transfer over the zipper and use hot split transfer inks.  As soon as you peel the paper away run a singe edged razor blade down the middle of the transfer to cut it in half and use the zipper to protect the fabric from being cut.  Then put some t-shirt material over it and hit it for 3 seconds to help the transfer wrap around near the zipper.  Looks like it was a cut piece engineered print and the best part, almost zero rejects compared to 2-4% on a press.

I have a source who makes these transfers daily with powdered adhesives that have excellent wash tests.  PM me for his contact info.

Al

[kingscreen]

Action makes a platen for printing the backs of hoods. Works great.