Cut off a small swatch of polyester heat press your iron on to the polyester and run it through the washing machine a few times to see if it adheres.
Heat press vinyl for polyester.
Heat press temp for polyester when pressing fabrics made of polyester it s highly recommended that you stick to low temperatures.
Lay your heat press on the teflon sheet and press for 30 seconds.
In general terms somewhere between 270 and 300 degrees is likely to be ideal.
Some polyester is super sensitive to heat.
Most of the heat transfer vinyl films that we offer can be applied to cotton polyester or cotton poly blends.
Make sure you re using light pressure do not put your whole body weight down on the press this can cause your fabric to burn.
In addition you won t want to keep the heat applies for too long.
If it is 100 polyester you can take elasti prints down to 275f.
However keep in mind that a cover sheet can also reduce the temperature reaching the transfer application by another 10 degrees.
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Pull the teflon sheet off your vinyl and then carefully remove the carrier sheet.
You can even test before you decide which vinyl to use just apply a heat press or iron at different temperatures to your polyester and see if it discolors or not.
The perfect values for time and temperature are 270 f for about 10 seconds.
Heat transfer vinyl for cotton polyester.