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I& #39;ve had some questions about this so I& #39;ll do a thread about decorating polyester! It& #39;s nothing too complicated, but if you don& #39;t know what you& #39;re doing, it& #39;s going to come out like this. 1/? https://twitter.com/F1sT/status/1310235750169022465">https://twitter.com/F1sT/stat...
First up, that& #39;s a 100% polyester hoodie. Usually you choose poly when you know the garment will get wet/sweaty when using it. They& #39;re roughly the same price as cotton, but you can& #39;t do a lot with poly to make it nicer like you can with cotton (or blends especially). 2/?
Polyester is "plastic" (it& #39;s complicated) and it& #39;s not an absorbent material, which is why you use it when it will get sweaty, so it doesn& #39;t stink. This makes it harder to screen print on, since water based inks won& #39;t stick. So you need to do Heat Transfers or use Polyester inks.
I see people in the comments saying "lol just dtg bro" but you can& #39;t DTG polyester. You can dye sublimate, but not DTG (direct to garment printing). In either case, you wouldn& #39;t use either method for this print, as it& #39;s only a couple colors and not a complicated print. 4/?
Look at how the red ATLANTA peeled up, this very likely is a heat transfer gone wrong. Heat Transfers are just like you do at home with your iron, but with a much bigger heat press and specific instructions on how long/hot to hold the press. They just didn& #39;t follow directions 5/?
You order the heat transfers from one of the big makers (Stahl& #39;s, etc) and they come in and you apply them, but even then it needs to be the right materials. This looks like everything was wrong. 6/?
Moving to the black FAZE logo. I can& #39;t tell if that is a transfer or not, but in either case they used the wrong kind of ink. See how it& #39;s breaking up/coming apart? That means that they didn& #39;t use polyester inks. There are different inks that work here, plastisol (contd) 7/?
is a good choice here, especially for the very solid/bulletproof prints that modern streetwear designs want to use (HEAVY prints you can feel). Not sure if they just didn& #39;t apply enough or didn& #39;t heat/dry it enough, but that& #39;s a disaster. That would get rejected on the line. 8/?
You need to go super heavy, but also treat them well because otherwise they will crack if you ball them up. It& #39;s why you hang your hypebeast shirts. They did not do that here, that looks super thin and also no underbase (???)
