What Is Reflective Heat Transfer Vinyl? What is HTV Vinyl?

Many people don’t know what is heat transfer vinyl, but you must be worn and see the T-shirt with the logo, words, or fashional graphics like below. Most of these designs on the T-shirt are formed by heat transfer vinyl. And reflective heat transfer vinyl also is heat transfer vinyl, but it has the reflective feature, which can reflect the lighting in the poor lighting situation.

rainbow reflective heat transfer vinyl for t shirt

rainbow reflective heat transfer vinyl for t-shirt

Applications of Reflective Heat Transfer Vinyl

The reflective heat transfer vinyl can be used on almost any flat material such as leather, textile fabrics, plexiglass, metal, plastic, crystal, wood products, copperplate paper, etc. No strict requirements for plate making, color registration, and complicated exposure procedures, and will not cause damages to the materials. Thus the heat transfer technology gets quickly developed in a different industries, especially in the clothing industry.

Applications:

  • Heat transfer printing on clothing decoration cloth, curtain cloth, sofa cloth, umbrella cloth, handbag, carpet cloth, toy cloth, shoes, PU, PVC surface or cloth, etc.
  • Some high-temperature-resistant plastic materials or plastic materials need to be treated by spraying, baking varnishing, electrophoresis, etc.

The process to print the reflective HTV vinyl

The simple process is:

  1. Screen printing design or cut a design, XW Reflective can cut the design on big production one time for you, you can get the cut reflective HTV vinyl.
  2. Printed the heat transfer vinyl on a T-shirt by heat press machine
  3. Rip off the based plastic film
  4. Done(the graphic will on the t-shirt).

Diy reflective heat transfer vinyl on t-shirt at home

  1. Cut a design or screen printing a design. XW Reflective can cut the design on big production one time for you, you can get the cut reflective HTV vinyl, or order printed reflective heat transfer vinyl from your local XW Reflective retailer.
  2. Prepare an iron or heat transfer machine.
  3. Put the special paper on the reflective HTV vinyl.
  4. Adjust no team model for iron, then heat press.
  5. Rip off the PET-based plastic Paper.
  6. Done. The reflective heat transfer vinyl graphic is printed on the t-shirt.

how to use reflective heat transfer vinyl HTV

Features of XW Reflective Heat Transfer Vinyl

  • Can reflect lighting under the poor light situation.
  • With thicker plastic film carriers, easy to rip off the based paper.
  • Colored reflective heat transfer vinyl, include silver reflective heat transfer vinyl, black reflective heat transfer vinyl, gold, red HTV vinyl, etc.
  • Plotter cutting reflective heat transfer vinyl, screen printing reflective HTV vinyl
  • Thicker plastic film carrier, won’t curl easily when screen printing.

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XW Reflective is a professional reflective heat transfer vinyl supplier in China, with our own reflective material factory, specialized in R & D reflective vinyl products, known as a quality reflective vinyl factory.

XW Reflective is looking for a reflective vinyl retailer, reflective vest factory worldwide to have long-term cooperation all the time, if you are one of them, or you are looking for colored reflective HTV vinyl, or rainbow reflective HTV vinyl or other reflective products, please feel free to contact us for more details.