Iron-ons are images that can be imprinted on fabric. A textile is a flexible material comprised of a network of natural or artificial Fibres often referred to as thread or Yarn. They are frequently used to print onto T-shirts. A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a Shirt which is pulled on over the head to cover most of a person's Torso.
On one side is paper, and on the other is the image that will be transferred in reverse. After placing it on the fabric and either running over the fabric side with an iron or pressing with a heat press, the image is transferred to the fabric. Ironing or smoothing is the work of using a heated tool or tools (an iron) to remove Wrinkles from fabric Iron-on transfer paper is available for use with computer printers.
Commercial quality heat transfer paper used in a heat press will yield much better results in terms of 'hand' (how the print feels on the fabric) and durability than store bought papers or transfers applied with a home iron. Transfer paper is used in Textiles and Arts & crafts projects
A number of inkjet, copier and laser printer toners have been developed to utilize this process. This is the process developed at BlackLightning by Walter Jeffries in the 1980's for negatively charged laser printer toners for use in black and white laser printers like those from Apple, HP, Xerox, Canon and other vendors.
The advantages of commercial heat transfer over screenprinting are that it is relatively cheap and easy to create one-off, full color designs. Also, when compared with dye sublimation techniques, heat transfers can be used on 100% cotton garments, whereas dye sublimation requires at least a 50/50 poly cotton garment. A dye-sublimation printer (or dye-sub printer) is a Computer printer which employs a printing process that uses heat to transfer dye to a medium such as a plastic A dye-sublimation printer (or dye-sub printer) is a Computer printer which employs a printing process that uses heat to transfer dye to a medium such as a plastic
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