Where thermal transfer paper is used, its types

In modern life, one often has to deal with such a situation, when it is necessary to apply a certain image to the surface. Usually such actions are connected with the advertising business, when the slogan or company logo must be placed on a certain product. Quite often many people want to buy a mug or a T-shirt with their photo or inscription of a certain type for a gift. In most such cases, thermal transfer paper is used.

In its essence, it resembles an ordinary sheet of paper, which has a special layer, which, when heated, can be glued to another surface. In this case, if a certain pattern is applied to it, it will also be transferred to the selected surface. Therefore, thermotransfer paper in its properties resembles the usual "resampling".

To print an image on a sheet of such paper, a standard printer is usually used. In this case, it can be both laser and inkjet. However, it should be taken into account that each specific type of device requires a certain paper.

The laser printer requires special thermal transfer paper for laser printing, which is more adapted to powder paint and can withstand the heating of the stove of the device. If you use conventional thermal transfer paper on a laser printer, you can not only spoil the paper and drawing, but even disable the device. It should be noted that the print quality of the laser printer is much lower than that of the inkjet printer with photo printing capability, and if it is necessary to print images with great detail, it is better to use a conventional inkjet printer that uses thermal transfer paper for inkjet printing.

When drawing a picture on a piece of paper, it is necessary to take into account that the image will then be transferred to the surface, which means that it needs to be applied to the paper in a mirror image. It is also necessary to take into account the color of the surface where the future drawing will be, and to choose a special paper for this, since the shell itself also has its own color. There is a thermal transfer paper of black, white and even transparent type of shell, which must be taken into account before use.

After the image has been applied to paper, it can be transferred to the surface using press and temperature. For example, to place a picture on a T-shirt, a thermotransfer paper is placed on it with an image to the fabric, and then the iron is heated and pressure is applied to it. In doing so, it is necessary to take into account the temperature range, which is usually indicated on the packaging with paper. Also there is information about the time of exposure to temperature and some other useful parameters.

It is worth noting that the price of thermal transfer paper is not very high, which means that you can make a T-shirt with a logo of your favorite team or a photo. In this case, this process will take no more than half an hour, and the image quality will be quite high.