How to Use Iron on Reflective Tape

How to Use Iron on Reflective Tape

If you’re planning to use reflective tape to enhance safety while riding your bicycle, it’s important that you understand how to use an iron to apply the material. There are a variety of reflective tapes available and we’ll go over the most common ones. You can use heat transfer reflective tape from 3M, which is lightweight and meets or exceeds ANSI Level 2 standards for reflectivity. You can apply it to porous or semi-porous materials, such as leather, by setting the iron on a medium to high temperature.

Choose Iron On Reflective Tape

Iron-on Reflective Tapes are used for various applications that require high levels of visibility and safety. These tapes are applied to clothing and other items such as bags and shoes. However, the reflective properties of the tapes need to be considered in order to choose the best product for your application. Here are some tips to choose the best tape for your application. First, choose a high-reflectivity tape. Second, look for a product that has high durability and resists scratching and wear.

If you’re not sure whether your chosen Iron-on Reflective Tape is waterproof, check the label to make sure that you’ve got the right type for your application. You can choose from a wide variety of materials that work with the tape. It’s a good idea to test it out on a hidden area of the material to see if it will adhere well. Third, be sure to use the appropriate iron setting. A typical temperature for ironing the tape is medium to high.

Applications

When choosing the right iron-on reflective tape, keep in mind that different types are available. You can purchase one that’s ideal for screen printing or ink-jet printing, and another with a flame retardant coating. For example, if you’re planning on using reflective tape on clothing for work purposes, it’s best to choose a silver-based, flame-resistant reflective tape. In addition, you can find a segmented reflective heat-transfer vinyl tape that is perfect for hot-pressing logos or graphics to fabric without damaging them.

Another way to use iron-on reflective tape is to design customized t-shirts. This type of tape is suitable for light-weight to medium-heavy-weight fabrics such as polyester blends. Besides t-shirts, you can also use them on other objects, such as shoes and bags. The material is scratch and wear-resistant, making it ideal for all kinds of garments.

Apply the iron-on retro-reflective tape to the object

  • 2> Put iron on reflective tape in the right place of the garment.
  • 3> Put a PET-based paper on the silver iron-on reflective tape to avoid too high-temperature damage on the garment or retroreflective fabric tape.
  • 4> Set “no steam model” to the iron, then heat press on the PET-based paper & move up and down.
  • 5> You can pick out the PET-based paper to see if the reflective fabric iron-on tape is applied to the garment. If not, repeat steps 3->4, until the iron on retroreflective fabric tape is applied to the garment.

There is some advice to you ahead of your iron on your garment: do the above steps on the unremarkable part of your object, to familiar with all processes of applying iron-on retro-reflective fabric tape, then you can do it better to applying iron-on reflection tape on your clothing.

Frankly speaking, you can follow these steps to apply the iron-on reflective tape on the soft and flat cloth, but the stable structured object such as shoes, you don’t need to do the first step, just try your best to make the iron-on tape stick with shoes together, then do the steps 2-5.

Anyway, have good luck with you.

Things need to pay attention

When applying the iron-on reflective tape, be sure to carefully remove any protective layer that may have formed on your material. While the metal-coated adhesive should be removed from the material, a piece of white paper should remain on the material. Once the adhesive layer has cooled down, you can proceed with ironing the tape to your workpiece. Make sure to check the reflectiveness of the tape with a flashlight. It should reflect light if it is shiny.