Week 16: Wildcard Week

Assignment

  • Design and produce something using a digital process (incorporating computer-aided design and manufacturing) that is not covered in another assignment. Document the requirements that your assignment meets, and include everything necessary to reproduce it.

    • Heat Pressing

    For this week's assignment, we decided to use the heat press machine in our lab to print designs onto t-shirts.

    Here are the steps that were followed:

    I began by loading the vinyl piece onto the machine. More information on vinyl cutting can be found on my Week 3 page πŸ˜‰

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    For this activity, we didn't use the normal vinyl that we used for stickers last time. Instead we used the Heat Transfer Vinyl from XSEINO.

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    These are the instructions for the vinyl. πŸ€—

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    1. First I opened Cutstudio and imported my design.

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    2. I then navigated to File and clicked on Cutting Setup.

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    3. In cutting setup, I clicked on the Change option.

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    4. I got the dimensions of the vinyl piece from the machine and clicked on OK.

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    5. After that I clicked on Cutting and then clicked on OK.

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    The heatpress machine we have in our lab is the UKPress Bluewave HP230B Swing Away Heat Press Machine.

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    To find the right heat press settings, we first tested the design on one t-shirt. We checked how well the vinyl stuck to the fabric and how the design looked after pressing. After a few adjustments, we found that 300Β°F for 45 seconds gave the best results. πŸ˜„πŸ€—

    After setting the temperature to 300 degrees and the timer to 45 seconds. To set the temperature and time, I pressed the Set button to switch between the different settings. Then I used the up and down arrow buttons to adjust the values as needed.

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    After that, I heat-pressed the t-shirt.

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    Here are the results!!! πŸ₯³πŸ’ƒ

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    This week was a lot of fun. I was really shocked to see how good the print came out on the t-shirt. I will most definitely be trying this again with some of my own clothes in the future. πŸ˜πŸ˜„

    Thank you!!! οΌˆοΌΎβˆ€οΌΎβ—οΌ‰οΎ‰ο½Ό Bye~Bye~