#Pic to T-shirts
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Hi Does anyone have some advice about the best way to go from a 3/4" video
picture to a picture that can go on a T-shirt. We have a local television
show and the kids in the audience have asked that we transfer this one
picture onto shirts.
—Suz—
Sure. There are two steps that you need to do:
1) Get the image from the video to the Amiga graphics. You need a
'framegrabber' for this. Among those you could use are: Video Toaster,
Framegrabber, DigiView (cheap with a freeze frame VCR and color splitter).
Once you have it in Amiga mode, you could use other progs (DPaint, ADPro,
Imagemaster, etc) to clean up the image and such.
2) Put the image onto heat xfer. I'd recommend you just take a good
printout of the image to one of these 'tee-shirt' places you find in malls,
or a novelty store, and they can do the shirts for you from a picture.
Note: for a multi-color image, you may need either a color printout, or a
color seperation of your image. You should check with whoever you're going
to have do the actual tee-shirt printing to find out what type of source
they need.
Do you have access to the equip above?
–jp–seattle–
John Thank you for replying so quickly. I have a toaster and Adpro. The
picture is color and I'm not sure about producing color separationIs this
something I can do in ADPRO? Also, I will be very green on manipulating
the image withinthe Toaster software–I really just use the switcher. Can
I import the framestore directly into the new ADPRO?
—Suz—
ADPro allows color seperations via its 'Seperation' button. (so do other
progs, but you mentioned you had ADPro….)
From the Toaster, you process could go something like:
1) get the image you want in your framestore.
2) go to the disk screen of the Switcher. That will have an option
for saving the image as a 24bit IFF file, if I recall correctly.
I hope someone else more familiar with the Toaster can verify this,
cause my familiarity is limited.
3) after it has been saved, exit the Toaster and run ADPro. Load the
image into ADPro and scale it, etc as you want. Then you can run
the Seperation feature on it.
A thought…. I'd bet that some of these tee-shirt places (particularly
novelty type stores) would accept IBM disk based images for tee-shirt
decoration? If so you could just save the image in whatever format the
place wants (PCX, GIF, etc) from within ADPro. Then xfer the image over to
a IBM-formatted disk, and away you go. Very simple.
The key first step is to find a tee-shirt or novelty store that will do it,
and find out what their requirements are. Then you can work towards that.
–jp–seattle–
In case someone else is looking for a simpler way I have taken pictures
into the Amiga (or drawn them)and reversed them via a graphics program (so
that any printing will come out OK).You can purchase heat transfer paper
which works in a computer, using the color ribbon to print on the paper and
then iron on the tee-shirt. Makes nice Christmas presents.
– via Whap!
Barbara,
Would you happen to have a suppliers name or a brand name for this heat
transfer paper you mentioned?
I was also curious to know if you have tried this particular type of paper
in a Laser Printer? Since the Laser Printers transfer the Toner to the
paper by fusing the toner with heat I would think this not possible.
I've seen a number of T-Shirt places using a Canon Colour Photocopier to
Enlarge photos, etc, and print the copied image to a special paper…in
fully reproduced colour. The image is then heat and pressure transferred
to the shirts. Anyone happen to know the kind of paper they are using or
possibly have a supplier name?
I've also seen in some of my old RUN and a few New Amiga mags. a company
advertising Colour Heat Transfer Ribbons for various printers. Anyone have
a chance to try these?
I ask a lot of questions, eh?!
Cheers!
Chester
– via Whap!
I have seen ads for heat xfr toners for the Laser Jets. (Usually they were
in Byte or Computer Shopper.) I'd be wary of putting heat xfr papers
through the machine. I can imagine all sorts of horrible events in the
fuser section.
– Well Whap! Me Silly….
For shirt transfer I suggest the Shinko CHC-445 sold by Prime Option which
gives 300 DPI 3 bit color. Print using ADPro 2.0 and get the effect of 24
bit color. Iron on transfer material (with release paper) is available from
Prime Option.
As I recall (it was several years ago) I mail-ordered it. It was quite
inexpensive for a packet. I should have it around still but just looked
and cannot seem to locate it.
– via Whap!
I have used the heat transfer ribbons on my Star NX-1000 Rainbow printer
and go got very nice results from it. Until I washed it, and most of the
color bled away. It It seems to work best with synthetic fabrics (yech). It
is a cheap way of getting images onto fabric. One warning that comes with
the ribbon says not to use it 'too much' or you'll get 'excessive wear of
the print head'. Doesn't sound very good. The name of the supplier is
'Ramco computer supplies' (I think), and they advertise in some of the
Amiga mags (tiny 2×3" ad). Enjoy, Erik Flom
I just noticed this thread. Sorry if this has been covered but what is the
best way to transfer an image from my Amiga to a t-shirt? I've been
thinking about digitizing tourists (I live in Hawaii) into my Amiga, then
somehow getting that image onto a t-shirt in a short amount of time.
Is there some kind of paper I can print on and then just iron that to the
shirt? How is the quality?
Thanks for any input.
>>DonovaN
Alas, the major problem with using a dot matrix ribbon is the amount of
time it takes to print the original. I don't know of anything that would be
fast enough for your needs. Although, I did just see an ad for some kind of
'Desktop Textile Printing Video' for $49.95 (sounds like a scam). The ad
was in page 95 of their Dec 91 issue, and the phone # is 1-800-367-0858.
Again, there is no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the
trustworthiness of these vidoe purveyors. Good Luck, Erik Flom
Erik,
I'm definately not interested in using dot matrix for my purposes. I want
good quality which I'm positive dot matrix could not give me.
I ordered that video a few days ago. I'm hoping I didn't throw $50 out the
window. I'll let you know if it was worth it or not when I get it.
>>DonovaN
Chester,
I picked up a package of transfer paper at the W.O.C. in Toronto
last year which seems to do the job pretty well. The product name is 'PRINT
'n WEAR" Transfer Paper for use with dot matrix and thermal ribbon printers
, a product of FOTO-WEAR Inc. East Brunswick, New Jersey. The supplier tag
for it up here (Canada) is Advantage Computer Accessories Inc., 1020
Meyerside Drive, Mississauga, Ontario , L5T-1K7.
I've only tried it on my Dot Matrix in black ink, with satisfactory
results but not on a thermal ribbon printer since I haven't access to one.
Hope this helps in your search!
Bruno
Bruno Kochan
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