How to put reflective on shoes

Reflective shoes are a kind of safety shoes, can enhance the visibility of people who wear them, and their high brightness showing on the street at night also makes you feel very cool and eye-catching, thus reflective shoes get the love of young teenagers. Expect to order a pair of reflective shoes, you also can make reflective on your shoes at home via reflective heat transfer vinyl.

How to use reflective heat transfer vinyl film for your shoes?

Reflective heat transfer vinyl film is produced for small businesses, small T-shirt shops, you can cut the reflective vinyl film as any design, and place it on anywhere of T-shirt or shoes, then press the reflective heat transfer vinyl design on the items by heat transfer printing technology.

What is the heat transfer printing technology, it looks highly advanced?

Actually, you don’t need to care about it, the whole process can be done by a heat transfer printing machine, you only need to put the design on the right place, and pull down the handle of the machine to press.
This way has a little budget, thus it is suitable for small business for special design on shoes or others.

Then, it needs a machine, which costs a lot of money, and doesn’t suit for DIY reflective at home.

Take it easy, we have plan B. No need for extra money to pay for the machine, you only need to prepare the shoes and reflective heat transfer vinyl and a special paper to anti-heat.

The reflective heat transfer vinyl also is an iron-on reflective vinyl, can be pressed on the shoes by iron. You can cut the reflective heat transfer vinyl as a design you like, and then put it in the right place, put special paper which is anti-heat to press the retro-reflective heat transfer film on the shoes.

Steps of DIY reflective heat transfer printing vinyl on shoes are as below:

1. You can choose and order some reflective vinyl in different colors, silver, yellow, orange, or rainbow.
2. Cut the reflective HTV vinyl by yourself, or ask the supplier to plotter the cutting according to your design, I suggest the second way.
3. Put the reflective designs on the shoes where you want to print.
4. Put a high-temperature isolation paper on the reflective design to isolate the high temperature during iron on.
5. Iron on evenly.
6. Done.

If you want to purse easier way to your shoes, I think you can order a pair of reflective shoelaces to replace your original shoelaces, you also can make your shoes reflective.

In a summary, you can put reflective on shoes by reflective heat transfer vinyl pressing, or order reflective shoelaces to replace your old ones.
These two ways can help you put a reflection on your shoes, enhance your visibility in poor light situations, keep you safe on the running way. In addition, in order to your running safely at night, you’d better put the reflective on your clothing either. Wear reflective clothing or paste iron-on reflective vinyl or reflective heat transfer vinyl are available.

XW Reflective provides kinds of reflective material for reflective shoes’ production, reflective piping, reflective yarn, and retroreflective fabric, we also provide final reflective clothing,  if you are looking for a reflective material supplier and factory, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.