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

Product Description

Personalize T-shirts with the name of your team or family crest emblazoned on the front with these T-shirt Transfers. Get free templates from avery website to customize T-shirts with designs and clip art or use your digital photos to make a T-shirt for any occasion. Unprinted iron-on transfer sheets feed easily through most inkjet printers, and a new Color Shieldformula ensures crisp, long-lasting image quality. With special personal touches setting them apart, your group can wear their T-shirts with pride. Quality results for a professional, fashionable look Use to personalize your T-shirts, hats, aprons and even bags Designed for use on light-colored 100% cotton/poly cotton blend fabrics Color Shieldformula means colors stay bright, even after being washed Get downloadable free templates and clip art images from avery website

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9536 in Office Product
• Size: 8 1/2 x 11
• Color: Clear
• Brand: Avery
• Model: 03275
• Published on: 2009-01-21
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .13" h x 9.31" w x 11.50" l, .40 pounds

Features

• Quality results for a professional, fashionable look
• Use to personalize your T-shirts, hats, aprons and even bags
• Designed for use on light-colored 100% cotton/poly cotton blend fabrics
• Color Shieldformula means colors stay bright, even after being washed
• Get downloadable free templates and clip art images from avery
• Get downloadable free templates and clip art images from avery website

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
You must try the new and improved ones
By Noname
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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Worked for the whole class!
By Abacus
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!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Has its limits, but can be tweaked
By Patricia Tryon
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.

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