Images on Jackets

Katchem_ash

This is a similar question to the car image but in a different way.

I know how they put images on T-Shirts by printing them on stickers and then ironing them on to the shirts. What I was wondering was can this process be used to do the same on Jackets? or will the Jacket be destoryed? Is it really the material which allows it to have an image printed on it?

Nerissa

Jackets are almost always silk-screened (i.e. the image is created directly onto the fabric), as are most higher-quality T-shirts these days.

I presume you're talking about a nylon-shelled windbreaker type jacket. The nylon usually won't survive the high temperatures that are required to fuse the image onto the fabric, and iron-on images tend to be much less durable than silk-screened ones anyway -- not something you want to expose to the elements.

There are actually two types of iron-on decals -- ink-based and the old-fashioned glossy kind that are actually screened onto a sheet of waxy paper. The ink ones you can make yourself with the right kind of paper and an inkjet printer. Those probably won't take on a nylon shell anyway, but that is just a guess. The other kind requires specialty equipment to make, and if you're going to go through all of the effort you might as well screen it directly onto the jacket.

Zeon

Katchem_ash wrote: »

This is a similar question to the car image but in a different way.

I know how they put images on T-Shirts by printing them on stickers and then ironing them on to the shirts. What I was wondering was can this process be used to do the same on Jackets? or will the Jacket be destoryed? Is it really the material which allows it to have an image printed on it?

I know what youre getting at. Just order something from japan. It will be cheaper.