Customer Reviews

Avery T-Shirt Transfers for Inkjet Printers, 8.5 x 11 Inches, Pack of 12 (03275)

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

They have a sticker on the packages saying the colors are brighter and they won't crack. I tried those first and they are beautiful. I bought some more, but they didn't have the sticker on them. Those must be what everyone here is reviewing. The old ones are indeed waxy with okay colors. I hope they don't peel like everyone says. But those improved ones are wonderful - brilliant colors and nice feel, not waxy at all. Trust me, there is a difference. I haven't washed the new improved ones yet, but they do look like they are durable and will withstand the wash. Wish there was a way to tell if the package we are getting from Amazon is new or old. I think the stock number is the same.

UPDATE: It has been an entire year since I've done some thirty or so transfers using various brands. Those new and improved Avery transfers are the best. One year later, through repeated washings, the new and improved ones still look bright and beautiful. The others are old and faded. Look carefully on the package. If they are new and improved Avery, that's the one you want.

It seems to me that what transfer paper tries to accomplish is pretty remarkable: a relatively easy way for people who do not have special equipment or skills to print their own images on fabric. In the past, transferring a design to fabric could be accomplished by silk screen (messy, complicated, and sometimes very expensive), by embroidery (needs a pretty well developed skill set and a *lot* of patience), by painting directly on the fabric with fabric paint (okay, how many of us are painters and able to create to our satisfaction the image of our pet or a favorite landscape as well as we can accomplish this digitally?), or by other more time consuming or skill-intensive means.

None of the methods mentioned are dummy-proof (I say this as a first rate crafts dummy, myself). In other words, the results are as likely to be disappointing as not. Unsurprisingly, for a number of reasons this is true of transfer paper, as well.

First, the image you see on your computer monitor is very likely not the image you'll be able to replicate exactly on fabric. There are several reasons for this. First, you might already notice that the colors in your photos don't print exactly as they appear on the monitor. If this is true, the calibration is off. Ways of addressing this differ, but put "color calibration" into a search engine.

Second, I get better results by making the image darker than for printing on photo or ordinary paper. I think this might be in part because...

Third, it has begun to seem doubtful that an ordinary iron can maintain temperatures hot enough to transfer the image fully, especially if the colors are supposed to be dark, deeply saturated, or bright. Although our iron can be set to very hot temperatures (ouch! ouch!), the iron is not in continuous contact with all of the image at once. Consequently, sometimes there is a little trouble with the image rippling and thus shifting a little. In the repeated passes that must be made with the iron, I suspect that the iron does not remain hot enough. Related to this, I think, is that the times proposed by the manufacturer for heating the transfer have not been long enough, sometimes by a factor of two or three.

So these are all reasons that one could say the product doesn't work well. Still, for me it represents an interesting way of printing my own design on fabric. Mostly, I haven't the patience or skills for other ways and for reliable results, I believe the better choice would be use the services of someone who has professional equipment and skill. But I really do enjoy experimenting, myself, to see what can be made.

For what the product is trying to do, it seems relatively inexpensive (though not cheap, by any means) to me. But the operative word really is "experimenting", because the results are by no means certain. I've knocked off a star because IMHO the manufacturer's blurb leads people to expect more than the product is at this point capable of delivering. It really is an experiment and I can't help feeling that folks would be less disgruntled if Avery were to dial back their description to one that is perhaps more realistic.

I tried several iron-ons. They go on easily enough, but crack almost immediately when you're wearing them. small or large; doesn't matter the size. I followed the directions carefully and even timed the ironing down to the second. Does't matter--they crack! JUNK, and a waste of money. Now I have ruined T's. One shirt I actually washed--it was ruined anyway--and the stuff flaked off in the washer. Same thing happens to HP transfers, according to the reviews. It could be the ink in the printers aren't compatible? Reason why some are okay and some not? Don't know but they need to put that on the package to warn people!

I used these for my students (3rd- 10th grade) to print a Photoshop design on tee shirts. They performed well for all of the students on tee shirts brought from home. Not all of the tee shirts were clean... not all of the students were good with ironing... but the tee shirts came out looking great. The tee shirt I made has small images on it from screenshots with text- images/text are crisp/clear despite small size.

As the instructions say: wash before wearing. The kids put theirs on right away but it felt too stiff to me. After washing, it is comfortable and still bright.

Notes: the iron we used was a heavy old iron with a fabric covered cord. I think this iron works better than the lighter weight modern sort. The instructions say to do 20 second passes across fabric, and that is perfect for kids, as they can count 1 hippopotamus, etc. Follow the instructions and be sure to load the paper in remembering which way your printer loads and prints paper. I used an unfamiliar printer where the paper needs to go in print-side down not up and printed the first one on the transfer backing by mistake.

Have fun!

Avery did a very poor job on their instructions. They don't tell you which side of the paper to print on. Well, I ended up printing on the wrong side and when I placed my iron down on the transfer paper, I started to smell burning. It was the glue side! So that iron is completely ruined (has burnt glue crusted on it.)

Advice: print on the white ridged side. NOT the smooth blue side! (I am no transfer pro so it was not clear to me. It really wasn't.) So unless you're a pro and have been doing transfers for a while, this might not be the best company to use.

the company sells two main products for this area, dark color and light colors...for dark color is basically a sticker that you print, and peel, then iron on, printout on front, peeled side back sticking to shirt; for light, it is printed in reverse, no peeling, you iron the printed side directly to the shirt

in theory, great idea, but one thing is they should first rename the products, dark should be simply iron on stickers, and light should be iron on transparent print out; because that`s really what you are doing...if you printed an image with a white background, and let`s say you iron this to a light green shirt, then background would stay white for DARK, and be transparent for the LIGHT product..hope this is making sense

anyways, the reason for the horrible rating is because the LIGHT product bleeds ink after the first wash, and everything is cracked and crinkled; i looked online, tried everything, called support, they were cool, sent another package to try again; ok, so i take my ruined shirt and try the back side this time, iron it on, looks great, let it sit one day, wash inside out, comes out cracked and bleeding b4 i decide to hang dry or tumble dry

save your money, get the DARK product, its more expensive, but it works

I have had no problems with this product so far. I used it to print some graphics onto non-stretch 100% cotton fabric. My fabric was a dark beige color, and the color still came through really well.

For what it's worth, I followed the ironing instructions VERY closely, and everything went super smoothly - I was able to easily peel the backing away after letting the transfer cool for 2 - 3 minutes. I did notice that the transfer appeared slightly shiny on the fabric - this wasn't an issue for me, but I thought I'd mention it. Also, I was happiest with the results when I trimmed the paper as close as possible to the edge of the graphic I was transferring - just a tip.

I haven't tried washing the finished products yet - hopefully they hold up reasonably well. If they don't, I'll update this review.

***UPDATE: I've now washed (cold water) and dried (low heat) the products a few times, and am happy to report that they have held up really well. No cracking, fading or bleeding.***

I did not expect much from any of the products like this, but this product exceeded all my expectations. The quality of the picture comes up great from the printer (I'm using Canon s820), it's easy to apply and it looks beautiful. I haven't tried to wash the t-shirt yet, but none of my t-shirts survives more than 5 washes anyway :-).

This is for light colored shirts, otherwise the product is good, Quality is great. I ordered this item and had it verified after calling customer service. The product ships from Avery and the item number for the item is for the 12 sheet, light colored shirts. When trying to find one for dark shirts, every transfer package, including Joanne fabrics came up as light t-shirt transfers.Avery 3279 Inkjet Dark T-Shirt Transfers[[ASIN:B000JCUCKC Avery Dennison Personal Creations Dark T-Shirt Transfers, 5 Iron-on Inkjet 8.5" x 11" Matte Transfers.

Had very bad service so I sent the product back was never refunded money !