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Mouse pads
Wanting to do some foam mouse pads. They have a white base and we use to use a transfer paper with a copier. Upgraded the copier and lost the capabilities of transfer. What material would be best using Versacamm 540i?
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Jackson on -
My initial thoughts on this would be Clear Solutions from Imprintables Warehouse - It is meant for white garments, has a very light hand and should no interference with the use of a mouse. Perhaps you can request a sample and test it out? I don't have any mousepads around the shop to test, but perhaps someone else does?
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Hirata on -
Tim,
Myself and another shop owner have used Solutions Clear to decorate mouse pads. You need to be careful as to the type of pad you purchase. I used a cheap pad and the design came out discolored. The other shop owner used a higher quality pad and it came out looking great.
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Permalink Reply by Tim Grigsby on -
I tried Solutions Opaque, Clear, and Quickprint. I thought Clear would be best, but printing a 100% coverage image didn't give me the greatest printing results and it may have just been the image that I am using. I only tried a photo on Quickprint. It seems to have the best results with Quickprint. It seems to bond well and the image is great. The biggest pain is bleeding to the edge and then having to trim out. With a copier, it transfers the ink and then applies the adhesive with heat transfer so the edge comes clean with no trimming. I am definitely still open for more ideas on refinement.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Hirata on
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Tim,
Another option you might want to consider is sublimation.
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Permalink Reply by Tim Grigsby on
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I have a small dye sub printer, but we don't use that often and usually have to deal with unplugging lines, etc. - more hassle than its worth, It just seems that there would be a good fix with the versatility of the materials and the roland.
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Permalink Reply by Tony Williams on -
I agree on the plugged lines, but new technology on the new Ricoh die sub printers makes things better, we just purchased a 3300 ricoh, we leave it turned on and it keeps the heads from clogging up, our epsons gave us lots of problems but I like the performance of the 3300 for our coffee mug prints, don't know if the roland will make a print for coffee mugs, also there are hundreds of gift items, plaques, key chains and the list goes on and on and on on products that can be die sublimated, grant you its expensive but I will say the new Ricoh printer has helped us tremindously, we also do a lot of the hard coaster to sit coffee mugs on, pictures of the grand kids, etc. We like to be able to do lots of things in our print shop, when one item or thing were doing is slow we do something else, we are never without work to do.
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Permalink Reply by Tim Grigsby on
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how much was one of the ricoh's?
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Permalink Reply by Tony Williams on
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I purchased my printer at Valley Litho Supply 1 (800) 826-6781 you purchase 2 sets of ink which is 8 cartridges at 60 dollars each and they give you a new Ricoh 3300, they also gave me free shipping, and they also let me pay by credit card and make two payments one at time of purchase and one 30 days later, but you must ask for free shipping and the two payment deal, you can tell them Tony Williams at Gospel Printers told you,,,,, hope this helps
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Permalink Reply by Tim Grigsby on
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Thanks. I will check with them.
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Permalink Reply by Tony Williams on
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Also let me say JoTo they specialize in new technology for color copier die sublimation,,,,,,
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Permalink Reply by Tony Williams on
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Thes people may be able to help you JoTo 1-800-565-5686 they specialize in copier transfere to sublimatiable products, we use a 3300 Ricoh printer with die sublimation, we also have a new vs 540 with metallic but I have not tried printing heat transferes and applying them on a mouse pad.
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Permalink Reply by Doug Jones on
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What we need is a transfer paper such as is used in ink jet transfer....of course, I have no idea of the washability of ecosolv inks....
But just think....a roll of transfer for dark that one could print and cut at the same time, weed it out and transfer....
Doug
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