 We just tried two techniques to print on black t-shirts. We tried Easy Subly and Printable HTV One of them didn't work and we'll show you which one right now What is up a welcome back do like to do a builder to make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week We're in for a Texas sized t-shirt tussle So what that really means is we want to do some sublimation on some dark t-shirts now We did this last summer. We used this Easy Subly, but we had a lot of your comments and questions about hey Why didn't you use printable HTV? So we thought today we would do a little versus challenge Easy Subly versus Printable HTV all on black t-shirts. I have a black t-shirt She has a black t-shirt and we're gonna use the same exact image a little bit about the differences between Easy Subly and Printable HTV The Easy Subly still uses your sublimation ink printer So we're gonna use our Epson Eco tank to sublimate on this Easy Subly paper and printable HTV uses simple inkjet printer Inks which I think everybody has an inkjet printer at home. All right, let's print our images and get started Mine is the printable HTV and mine is already looking darker Yeah, my blacks look blacker and my colors just look color Well, that's the difference between these printed images But if you've done any sublimation, you know that these inks look light now But once we sublimate them, they're super vibrant and all of the colors come out Let's see what happens with the printable vinyl. This does feel a little thicker. Yeah, that's my printable vinyl Yeah, this is a little this a little more substantial this piece of paper here We'll see I'm very curious to see how this is going to turn out. I think we should trim it out Just to the black what we've done is just printed straight on an eight and a half by eleven I guess it's a four size paper and then we're going to hand cut around our image We could sublimate this whole black square right onto our t-shirt, but I don't want it to leave those square corners So this image that works out really well for this. We're gonna cut all the way around our little orange frame Remember how I said this this stuff the easy sub leaf out the little more substantial Well, the scissors cut the vinyl when I was trying to just glide them down So I got a little maybe a paper trimmer. It would have been good. Yeah I also found that as I handle this some of the inks are coming off of my onto my fingers So I don't think you want to touch this too much a little lesson learned for you All right, he's going on the front or the back I think they should go on the front. I don't know what you think. No, I was thinking front to yeah front Let's go front. All right, so we'll start with the easy assembly. I have to put this cover sheet over it Which because I cut it down. It's gonna fit within our little transfer sheet here perfectly. All right, so I Take this off right to the clear sheet and put it right over top of it And you remove the backer Goes right over top. Oh still got a little bit crooked I'm just gonna use our little thing here to make sure it's nice and stuck to the transfer Now pull the backer off of the printed page Have it on my transfer here and The recommended settings are 311 degrees For 15 seconds 311 precisely 311 Yeah, it says precisely but like don't even come at me with 310. Nope. That's what it says Said 312 you've gone too far. That's it. It literally says don't even come at me with 310 Centered Does it look about right? No crooked. No crooked. No crooked No crooked here. All right down Get your butcher paper down Your parchment paper or your butcher paper in our case our meat hugger Makes me laugh every time And start How many seconds is this one? It is Did I say 15 seconds Look at that. Look at those colors. Blacks came back a little bit. All right now It says peel it warm. Peel it warm That's vague Does that feel hot? Peel it warm Ah, it's not yet Warm yet All right. Nope. I think you're good Yeah, give it a little Let it breathe a little Warm it down Warm it down You got to cool it down Ooh, watch out Oh my goodness that looks great That looks pretty good All right. I think my blacks might be better All right, what are the settings for this one? We will see All right All right We're going to show you Well, I can show you now, but we'll show you side by side Look at that Looking pretty good I mean, that looks pretty good Now wait What? Oh, Garrett did the pre-press He probably should have pre-pressed I think the temperature for this is a little bit hotter Yeah, it's 374 374 Isn't that funny? Don't even come at me with 375 375, you've gone too far What are you doing over there at 375? Get back here at 374 Now, what are you going to do? Just peel the back off All right You do want to allow this to dry From the inkjet printer You want the ink to dry for about five minutes Before you press it So this one is dry What was that chance for? Shoot, we just took off Oh, I threw it away It's got ink all over it No All right I think we're going to want to do the same thing 375, don't tell them 375 You're down You're good All right, I guess it's in there All right This printable vinyl is definitely thinner A lot more delicate than the other is It's like tissue paper Yeah, it's like tissue paper Yes, agreed It's more like trying to do a water slide Oh yeah That takes some practice A little bit of butcher paper You want to bring this closer Keep it on down I don't have a cord long enough To go way over there Yeah All right Now this is How many? How many seconds? Now this is 12 seconds Okay, yep All right, we're going in at 375 Not 373 Not 375 374 For 12 seconds Not 13 Not 11 I mean, these are both really quick presses Yeah Oh Now is this a cold peel? Cool before removing parchment paper Oh man That's too quick on removing the parchment paper Hey, you know what we learned now Look at that You may have to do this one again No It's got to cool You're not even close to being cool I'm not even sure this is going to work Because of the Garrett used a transfer sheet The vinyl, the Clear plastic transfer sheet From the Easy Subly On top of the vinyl Should I just print it again? Yeah You might have to do it again All right, we let it cool I'm going to try to peel it up And it's kind of just peeling right off the shirt Well, if you can get it all off Yeah, I might be able to reuse it Yeah That did not work All right, I'll just try to line it Back up over top of that Ish Kind of Hopefully it will cover that up All right, there's just a tiny little bit of residue left So we're going to try and salvage The shirt That we messed up This time we're going to try Crickets parchment paper We're going to lay it down 374, 12 seconds Shift it around a bit You know, I like to do Yeah All right Let's see All right, that was a quick 12 seconds Now, we'll let it cool Before we remove the parchment paper Let it cool Cool it down And that's what it says Oh, wait, one minute For the transfer to cool Before removing the parchment paper Alexa, set a one-minute timer Look, we're all learning something today That I'm impatient That we knew Alexa, how much time has left on my timer? You have 20 seconds left on your one-minute timer Count it down again She's counting it real slow Cut out the Mississippi's That was a long one minute Right Nice and warm now, isn't that what they said? That's the longest minute ever I mean, just do it You should be able to reuse it again All right, do I try it again? All right, what do you guys think? Which one turned out better? I don't understand what happened to mine Twice now All right, we're going to try this one more time Third time's the charm Vinyl down Our parchment down All right, we're going to try to go in a little bit longer We're going to go 350 for 30 seconds this time And high pressure So I'm going to pull this closer I want you to lean on it High pressure, 30 seconds Now I get the lean on it Yeah, he loves leaning on it anyway It gives me something to do I feel like I'm Helping the process All right, fingers crossed Other than this, I'm not sure What would be the difference? Still 30 seconds Now do we still do it? It's out of weight, it's out of weight so Cool I don't think it worked Are you ready for the pull? I'm ready Do it this way All right, I'm able to get the image right off the shirt again You know what though, it's coming off easier Well, yeah, see if you can get it all the way off So what does that mean? I don't know What are we doing wrong? What did I do wrong? I don't understand I got a lot of lint off of the shirt This is a great way to get the lint off the shirt Well, you can't win them all This will be a project fail video Well, it's in my fail Half of it worked great Yeah, that worked great I thought the principle H-TV would be the winner in the end No, I don't understand Why didn't it work? Can you tell me why my principle H-TV did not work? Did I use the wrong parchment paper? Did I use the wrong transfer paper? Did I use the wrong heat? Time? Pressure? Way too many variables I don't even know what I did wrong But I do know we're about out of time So if you're not going to join us for the patron after show We will see you next week when we'll do it Build it and make it again I'm done Third time Three strikes I'm out I'm out of here