T-shirt printing with no-weeding and no-cutting

Technologies such as flex films or vinyl transfer films require complex cutting out and weeding of the motifs before they can be transferred to the textile. Multicoloured motifs are often only possible in several work steps. With toner transfer, these steps are no longer necessary. You can simply print your motives on a transfer foil and then connect them on the transfer press with a B-Paper. During this process, your design is automatically weeded. The B-paper contains an adhesive that will later bond your design to the textile. This adhesive is activated under pressure and heat only where your printed image is. This way, only the print is transferred to your product. Now you can simply transfer your design to the desired surface.

Print on dark surfaces thanks to white toner transfer

With the Ghost White Toner, a white toner cartridge for laser printers it is now also possible to transfer to dark surfaces. Normally white ink is not printable on conventional laser printers because the printers are equipped with black, cyan, magenta and yellow cartridges only. For example, if you want to create a black page with a white text, the entire printing area is filled with black and the white area on the paper is left blank. This leads to high printing costs. It would be easier to print white directly on a coloured (black) paper. The same problem exists in toner transfer. Since white is not available as printing ink, motifs cannot be transferred to dark textiles. The colour rendering would be distorted by the dark background of the textile. Ghost White Toner solves this problem. You can print white with a Ghost White toner cartridge for your laser printer. Just put the Ghost White toner in your laser printer instead of the black toner cartridge. Now everything that is displayed on the screen in black is printed in white. So you can print on dark and colored papers with white and use any paper suitable for your printer. You can also transfer the white print with toner transfer to dark textiles and other materials. You can now also transfer colored designs to dark textiles by using Ghost White Toner to print a white background over your design. This ensures that the colours are displayed correctly even on dark backgrounds.

White Toner for perfect results for your products

White toners for HP printers are the ideal addition to your classical toner colors cyan, yellow, magenta and black. To put it more precisely, the Ghost White Toner substitute the black toner cartridge in your printer to enable you to print in white color. We offer you white toners for HP laser printers. You can print white directly on colored papers as well as create the mirror-image templates to be use in the transfer press for the customization of light and dark textiles.

In the following, we will show you how to implement your creative ideas for printing t-shirts. The prints can be applied to different surfaces such as cardboard, cotton, polyester fiber or even leather and wood. Apart from the HP laser printer and Ghost White Toner with transfer foil, you also need a large transfer press with a sufficiently big baseplate.

How to use white toner

White as a color cannot be printed with standard laser printers as these only have the colors cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The white is assumed to come from the paper on which the design is printed. If you want to print on colored media or need to transfer a design to a dark substrate white is needed to provide color accuracy. Whenever you have a photo, pattern or logo that has white lines and areas in addition to black and colorful areas, you need white toner to print it on colored media or transfer it to dark garment. In the following we will explain how to print such a design for the transfer to a t-shirt using Laser-Dark A-Foil and B-Paper (Links to products in Shop). As a first step, the HP laser printers have the customary three colors as well as black. Make sure that the a-foil paper is located correctly in the tray. Furthermore, you have to invert the picture on your computer before printing it so that it is represented correctly on the material.

After the first printing process, all areas that are supposed to be white will be colorless. Now you substitute the black toner cartridge in your HP printer for the white toner. Everything you want to print in white on your t-shirt, like letters, logos or other graphic elements, has to be set in black on the screen. After that, you print again: make sure to once more use inverted print and set the color to grey. This is important so that the printer can select the black cartridge tray that in this case houses the white toner. This way, all areas that are displayed as black on the screen will be printed in white. Then, the template can be transferred to b-paper and afterwards to the product.

Selecting your white toner and tips for users

After the completed picture has been transferred to the foil, you can press it onto your chosen surface such as wood, felt, fabric or leather. For sealed surfaces like glass or ceramics you use a multitrans foil (Inser Link to Product). Laser printer cartridges do not use ink, but a dry powder. When using the transfer press, the template from the laser printer is transferred to the various surfaces. You have to adapt the temperature depending on the surface. In some cases, for example on textiles, you can add different effects like matt and gloss by reheating the surface.

You can purchase the white toner as bundle or separately, for the different HP-Color-LaserJet-Pro printers. With one white toner you can print several thousand pages, irrespective of which shapes you need and how delicate you want the result to be. The results are colorfast, precise and sharp and do not have to be edited additionally. The printers automatically calibrate after changing the toner from black to white so that you can execute the next print. You do not need any cleaning after changing the cartridge.