The way most people complete print and cut jobs at home and for business is to have a vinyl printer for printing out the design onto printable vinyl and then to have a cutting machine with the ability.
Print and cut heat transfer vinyl machine.
Remember that your vinyl cutter should only cut the heat transfer side of the vinyl and shouldn t perforate the clear plastic backing.
Heat transfer vinyl has its limits but by using t shirt transfer paper designs that are impossible with iron on are made simple.
If you have more than one color please note you need to mirror on all the mats.
This tutorial will show you how to cut heat transfer vinyl using a cricut maker and cricut design space the free online design software that comes with all current cricut machines cricut explore air explore one explore air 2 and cricut maker.
A good print and cut machine is capable of cutting out the most intricately printed designs whether printed on vinyl or any other substrate.
Uscutter offers a wide selection of heat transfer printer solutions from inks and toners to turn a home desktop printer into a garment printing machine to specialized printers for creating garments or decorating hard surface items.
It does an incredible job of transferring designs from the software to the heat transfer vinyl.
With print cut you can use your free silhouette studio software to create a design or use a print cut design from the silhouette design store and print it out on your home printer.
By using the print and cut feature in cricut design space you can make easy heat transfers out of complex images.
So all you need is to place the vinyl on a cotton t shirt under a heat press and the design will be imprinted on the tee shirt.
Don t be tempted to increase the pressure so the machine cuts through the material as this will ruin the vinyl during the iron on process.
Adhere your heat transfer vinyl with the shiny backing side down onto your cutting mat and load into your machine.
All silhouette machines are capable of using the print cut feature.
Unlike screen printing vinyl heat transfer allows you to print various colors.
Find out more about why we have to mirror here.
After you transfer those shapes or designs into a garment.
The silhouette cameo 3 has earned the title of being the ultimate diy machine.
How to use heat transfer vinyl with a cricut machine.
Verify your design is mirrored and cut your heat transfer vinyl.