How To Apply Heat Transfer Vinyl With Iron

Heat transfer vinyl comes with heat settings by degrees.

How to apply heat transfer vinyl with iron.

Power on your iron and set it to high cotton. Did you know that you could use a regular household iron to permanently apply siser heat transfer vinyl. Too hot and you will melt the carrier sheet. I get asked how to use heat transfer vinyl or iron on vinyl probably more than any other question.

Check out our tutorial here. Then press the iron onto your design for 15 seconds move on. Maybe you can t with competitor materials but siser. Don t move it about like.

If you want you can start with light pressure and increase to firm pressure. It is not hard. Next lay your design onto the fabric shiny side up. Once the iron is hot and ready for use put in on your design and exert firm pressure.

The key is to press down as hard as possible my knuckles actually go white when i do this. Apply the htv with your iron. Iron or heat press the area a few seconds before you apply the vinyl design after design application press the back side of the design for 10 seconds. My iron doesn t have that.

It is super simple to apply heat transfer vinyl using just a household iron. If you use a lot of heat transfer vinyl then you may want to get a heat press or easy press down the road but for today we will just focus on using an iron. Today i thought i would share the basics of this material with you as a reference guide to using this. Prewarm your blank before you place the heat transfer vinyl.

Heat and pressure both of which we can get using an iron. To activate the adhesive on the heat transfer vinyl you need two things. Tips tricks for iron on project care.