The advanced technology of HOTS inks allows colours to be applied straight onto DARK garments without the aid of a flash white to help increase the opacity. The finished product is soft to the touch and the design can contain up to seven different colours. Gives the garment the look and feel of directly printed garments but with the benefit of print on demand heat applied transfers.

The Direct Screen Look and Feel with the flexibility of transfers!

Principal Fabric Types
100% Cotton,
50/50 Cotton Polyester blends.

Call us now on +44 (0)1376 326351 or email us on info@TargetTransfers.com  www.TargetTransfers.com/Custom

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I just wanted to drop you a line and say how delighted we are with the transfers that you provide for us. Not only are they great and SO easy to use, but the advice and general level of customer service is brilliant and just what a ‘novice’ like me needs. People are very quick to complain when things go wrong so I thought it only fair to say a big thanks for your help.

All the kids at The Vallé Academy are so proud to wear the tops and so getting the ’seal of approval’ from teenagers is quite something. Many thanks again for all you help and patience – more orders are on their way!!

Kind regards
Steve Wortley. The Vallé Academy

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When the friends and family of Danyl Johnson, X Factor finalist and primary school teacher called for assistance in preparing support t-shirts for Danyl we just asked how many! He is already being tipped to win this year’s X Factor after what Simon Cowell said was the best audition he’d ever seen. Danyl Johnsons friends and family needed the shirts the very next day ready for the weekend vote and so the shirts were produced in Universal Opague for speed and colour quality. We wish Danyl and the remainding 9 X Factor finalist all the very best for the final!  

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Can’t see the movie try this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzj9z8QDTfU

For more information on how we can help you promote your next big project call us on +44(0)1376 326351 or Visit us at www.TargetTransfers.com

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Target Transfers are one of the longest established and best known custom heat transfer manufacturers with a reputation for high quality, fast turn round times, at competitive prices. For over 30 years Target have provided a wide range of custom heat transfer systems to the Sports & Leisure, Fashion, Promotional, Work wear and Merchandising markets. Many of their custom heat transfer systems have been developed in-house by their R & D Department, and their innovative approach to heat transfers now means that they have a transfer system for virtually all fabrics and textiles.

Target Transfers have been going through a period of growth, and to continue that level of expansion, the company is now seeking commission agents to represent them in either the Agents County or Country, with territorial protection. As an agent Target would want them to believe in the products as strongly as the company does, and they would need to continue to uphold the integrity and reputation that Target and their products and services have earned over the years. Overseas sales (Export) are of particular interest, as the fall in the value of the Pound against other currencies makes their products very much more competitive.

Full details of the project can be found on Target’s web site by visiting the Home page and clicking on this link “Agents Wanted” . All applications will, of course, be treated in the greatest confidence. Alternatively, please either contact agents@TargetTransfers.com or call and ask to speak to Chris Treadway, Sales Manager on +44 (0) 1376 326351.

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Target Transfers, the UKs leading supplier of Textile CAD-CUT® Vinyl’s, has launched a great new novelty  CAD-CUT® material namely a “Glow in the dark” film. The film is a “normal” brilliant white in daylight conditions, but as soon as the image is shown in a dark environment, it “glows” brightly!

The Glow in the Dark textile vinyl material offers many opportunities for producing novelty designs for tee-shirts for example, for those hot summer nights when someone wants to make a long lasting, memorable impression. Or how about shirts for use at the local club or disco? Perfect for use at Stag and Hen party nights when it is necessary to get an important message across! And if you want to be really imaginative and produce a scary evening, remember Glow in the Dark for Halloween parties.  Put the shirt under a jacket or coat and wait till it’s completely dark, and then open the jacket showing a glowing image to whomever you want to scare! We’ll leave the actual design or wording up to you!

Target carry a huge range of CAD-CUT® textile materials, and as well as the standard colours and types, the “Glow in the Dark” joins other novelty and special effect CAD-CUT® textile vinyl flex materials such as “Premium Electric”, “Metallics”,  and “Fluorescents”.

“Glow-in-the-Dark” is available in 50cm widths and in rolls of 25 metres, and may also be purchased by the metre! For more details please call 01376 326351 or visit the web site at www.targettransfers.com .

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As part of Targets on-going project to educate and ensure that all customers are aware of the various heat transfer processes available, and how they work, Target Transfers are pleased to be able to provide information on the heat transfer system known as “Puff”.

As you might imagine, Puff is a novelty effect, which produces a raised image with the appearance of a 3D image. Puff custom heat transfers can make the simplest of designs come to “life” and add a whole new dimension to the chosen image.

It is also possible to produce designs where only parts of the image puff up as opposed to the whole design, and this means that those parts not raised up will give a soft finish with bright, bold colours showing through. The system is particularly popular within the baby and children’s wear market and the fashion industry.

Puff custom heat transfers are suitable for application to 100% Cotton, 100% Polyester and Poly-Cotton blends, and are very easy to apply. To obtain further information on the Puff Transfer System, and other heat applied transfer systems, please visit Target’s web site at www.TargetTransfers.com or call the sales office on 01376 326351.

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Adding new equipment to your business is an exciting undertaking. It represents new business opportunities, the potential for new customers, and, hopefully, new levels of profitability. All of this is especially true with cutters and printer/cutters, which present such enormous decorating potential.

If you’re adding a cutter or printer/cutter to your business, get ready for an influx of new types of orders, and get the business ready to handle those orders by laying out your new equipment in the most efficient manner possible. But before moving any new equipment into the business, you’ll need to give some serious thought as to how you’ll physically arrange it, and doing that requires understanding how the work actually flows through the decorating process.

Go with the flow

With cutters, everything begins at the computers, where the design is created, manipulated and prepared. That said, you’ll want to keep the computer as close as possible to the cutter. On some units, the controls are on the right; by placing the computer on the right side of the unit, near the controls, you can easily reach over to the cutter’s controls while staying seated at the computer.

Register and login to www.TargetTransfers.com and download this file and start planning your work flow.

If you’re using a printer/cutter, you’ll first print the design onto the material; if your unit is a conventional cutter, then you’ll obviously skip this step. After the unit cuts the design, you’re ready to weed away the excess material. Next, you’ll mask the design by laying onto it a piece of clear, adhesive material – it looks rather like a huge piece of Scotch tape. Bend the adhesive material in the middle slightly so the middle hits the design first, which will help you avoid air bubbles. You then need to run a squeegee across the adhesive material to push out the air, the first pass lightly, then a second pass with additional pressure.

Leave the protective backing on the weeded and masked designs so you may stack them up and take them in bulk to your heat press area. This is a more efficient process than actually applying each design as you weed and mask it, because you’re grouping together similar tasks rather than jumping back and forth between dissimilar ones. Use a cart if needed to move those pieces over to the heat press area. Then, after the garments are decorated with the designs, they can be folded, stacked back into the cart, and rolled over to the packing/shipping area.

The Work Area

With a firm understanding of the workflow process for your cutter, you can lay out equipment in the most efficient way possible. Ideally you’ll designate a 3m x 3m, 3m x 6m (a single car garage) area for your cutter, giving you ample room to operate the unit comfortably. Embellishers with spacious production areas might be tempted to allocate even more room for their cutters, but that’s not necessarily a good idea. A compact work area translates into efficiency by putting within arm’s reach the tools and supplies you need to stay productive. You’ll also want a table nearby for weeding and masking; a standard 1.5-2m library type table should provide plenty of room.

Register and login to www.TargetTransfers.com and download this file and start planning your work flow.

Devote your cutter area strictly to creating the designs, and handle the application of those designs using the heat press in another part of your premises. In all likelihood, you’re already doing other types of heat transfer work, so there’s no need to move the heat press into your cutter area.

(By the way, if you’re just now purchasing a heat press, consider at least a 40 x 50cm heat press so that you’re able to handle a larger variety of sizes. Also, consider an air-assisted swing-away heat press type model, a versatile piece of equipment that allows for custom platens, to handle odd shapes such as bag’s gloves and hats.)

Other equipment and supplies you’ll need include the media itself (the material that you will be cutting) as well as squeegees, masking material, weeding tools and scissors. Consider drawer storage below the table to hold these supplies. 

For a one or two person work area, consider arranging your equipment and supplies in a “U” shape. At the base of the “U” is the cutter, with a 2m table to the right, and the computer on the far left-hand side of that table, next to the cutter. The rest of the table is used for weeding and masking. Your configuration may be different depending upon your particular needs, but the goal is to keep everyone working with no waiting, and a minimum amount of wasted energy in between tasks. Employees shouldn’t have to walk anywhere to reach their weeding tools or to find masking material, for instance; it should be all within arm’s reach.

Tips to maximize efficiency

Of course, getting the most out of your equipment means more than just putting it in the right place: It’s also about using it intelligently. For example, when the design is at the unit being cut (or print and cut, as the case may be), the most efficient thing for you to do is to busy yourself elsewhere, with another task, such as weeding and masking designs you’ve cut previously, rather than watching the unit and waiting for it to finish. Other tips for increasing productivity include:

• Be specific – Make sure every job has an order sheet with all necessary information including due date; file name; image size and location; type of garment and so on.
• Chunk it up - Break up runs on roll stock into manageable chunks. For instance, if you have a uniform order for 200 pieces, you might send only 50 at a time to the cutter. This allows you to check quality on the run midway instead of at the end, and you can busy yourself with weeding and masking while the next batch is at the cutter.
• Keep it manageable – Depending upon your production volume, the length of your design groupings on the CAD-CUT® material will vary depending on the designs and jobs themselves; you should avoid sending designs through your system that total more than a metre of material at once. Keeping segments of material at this length will prevent them from getting so long that they become difficult to physically handle. You can always “tell” the cutter to cut pieces automatically so that you don’t have to do it by hand using scissors. The pieces will then either drop onto the floor or into a catch basket (desirable, depending upon your situation and housekeeping).
• Keep Stock – Make sure that you don’t run out of your standard colours, keep a roll of your most popular type and colour of CAD-CUT® material. The most common used tend to be Black, White, Red and Blue your may be different. Take a quick stock take each night and order online, save your daylight hours for production and sales calls!
• Weed smart – Whether or not you should weed designs one-at-a-time or in groups depends upon the designs themselves. If you’re doing large ones, you’ll probably want to weed one-at-a-time instead of fighting with a large piece if CAD-CUT® material with multiple designs. If you’re doing say 24 tiny ones, you could weed them all at once. You should develop a feel for the right approach in this instance, knowing what’s manageable and what’s too cumbersome.
• Weed different – For some designs – especially smaller ones – you might find that its actually easier to weed after you’ve done the masking rather than beforehand, That’s because much of the weeding will happen as a result of the masking itself, leaving you with less actual weeding to do manually. Any time you’re doing a new order, try this reverse method first; if it doesn’t work, go back to the conventional sequence of weeding first, then masking.
• Gang up on them – Printers/Cutters typically use white media so there’s no need to change out material for specific colours. However, you will need to change it based on the type of fabric you’re decorating. For example, you’ll use one type of material for polyester and another type for Nylon. For maximum efficiency, group jobs that use the same type of material so you’re not constantly changing it out on the cutter. Likewise, gang up smaller jobs so you’re cutting numerous designs at once, not just one or two. Be careful, though, as you don’t want to inadvertently put the wrong design on the wrong substrate – a relatively easy mistake to make when you’re batching together designs from different orders.
• Think BIG – For large runs, you may want to use a cold laminator, a piece of equipment familiar to those in the sign industry. This unit puts an extra protective clear layer on top of the film. For decorating purposes, you would weed the designs then run them through the laminator with the mask on top. This route is faster for large runs than using a squeegee, and it can provide better, more even coverage, thanks to consistent pressure.

Whether you’re equipped with a printer/cutter, a simple plotter cutter, or multiple standard heat presses, like most aspects of your business, creating the ideal system for workflow is often a matter of trial and error, so try these suggestions and see what works best for you. With just a little experimentation and some careful evaluation, you can create a workflow that gets the most efficiency and profitability out of your equipment of choice.

About this Article: This is one of a series of occasional articles issued to help those active in the garment decoration and embellishment industry by Target Transfers. Target is a major UK supplier of Equipment, materials, garments and accessories to the imprinted wear market, and a member of GroupeSTAHL, the world’s leading suppliers for Identity for Textiles. Please visit Targets website for more details at www.TargetTransfers.com.

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Target Transfers offer a great selection of accessories, including items to help make application of heat transfers easier and more accurate. There are also accessories to protect and enhance the performance of heat presses; to help promote and improve your display, and after sales aids to give that professional finish to every sale.

General Accessories We provide a good range of heat printing accessories and equipment to assist in better application of heat transfers by your heat press. There are also accessories for safe and effective storage of lettering and numbering, and aids to check the accuracy of the heat press.

CAD-CUT® Accessories This range of products, designed for textile vinyls, heat applied transfers and all your garment decoration needs, give you fantastic support and terrific results.  By using these products in conjunction with your Heat Press, Plotter Cutter and textile vinyls, you will find that the quality of heat applied transfers you can generate will improve your fabric application results no end.

Packaging Accessories  To protect your rolls of heat applied CAD-CUT® vinyl, we have two storage solutions that do not take up too much space and will ensure your purchases are looked after. The Clusta-rack and target boxes are barely noticeable in the workplace and can be placed within easy reach of your cutter or large format printer.

Remember that these essential tools not only speed up your work flow and inturn save you time and money, but will also protect your raw stock and equipment!

For additional Accessories go to www.Target Transfers.com and choose between:

General Accessories, CAD-CUT® Accessories and Packaging Supplies.

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With fast turnaround times and NO minimum or maximum quantity restrictions there has never been a better time to offer your customers full colour onto most fabrics. www.TargetTransfers.com

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BENEFITS

Cut huge graphics, multiple copies and perfect pin stripes without babysitting your cutting plotter.  Summa Cut-R’s built-in media rolls and titanium coated, precision edged, media drive drum deliver vinyl through the cutter in a smooth, straight and consistent manner, improving accuracy and reducing wear on your equipment.

Contour Cutting

The OPOS X contour cutting system scans pre-printed registration marks on the vinyl.  Then, the cutter’s own internal programming repositions the plot data, adjusting it for rotation and distortion.  This results in highly automated and accurate contour cutting of printed vinyl graphics.

Flexcut

Summa’s Flexcut feature makes it possible to cut simple designs completely through the backing material.  Alternatively, one length is cut complete through the material, and one length is cut partially through.  The cutting length and Flexcut length are user definable allowing for variety of applications.  The result is a tear-off line ensuring the material maintains rigidity for transport through the Summa cutter.  The finished product remains intact but easy to break apart into individual basis.

Winplot cut-software is included along with free updates from our Web site.  It is also dongle-free and can be installed on all your computers.

For additional information click here or call us on +44 (0)1376 326351 and speak to one of our team.

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