 Hey guys, it's Jen from iCreekraft. So I purchased this new HTV Ront mug press. I wanted to see if it was worth my money, so I'm going to do a non-boxing. I'm going to try it out with you guys and you're going to see how it works. So I cut some files out already here. It's almost Christmas time, so I have Christmas guys here, but I saw this. I saw the reviews were hopping down. So we're going to test this out ourselves and kind of see what it's like. I do actually have a mug tumbler press, which I have not really used much because it just was too complicated to get the right settings, to get the right temperature, all that stuff. This is supposed to do everything for you. So we're going to go ahead unbox this and we're going to try it out together and we're going to see firsthand how this works. So let's get started. The thing is here is the manual product here. It kind of tells you all about it. I only watched a few videos on these, so we're going to do this together and kind of see how it works together. First off the bat, I like it because it gives you the heat tape. Also gives you a pair of gloves, which I have many pairs of these and we're going to unbox this and see what it looks like. I got the mint color, so we're going to see how this does. So I'm super excited about this. I do actually have the HTV Ron's heat press and I absolutely love it. I've been using it for a few months now and it has done a fantastic job. So I'm hoping that this heat press will do the same thing as my other heat press over there, but this is for mugs instead of other products. So that is pretty color. I love mint, so I got the minty color. This looks really cool. So I'm going to show you a little bit what this looks like. Overall, it looks super simple to do. Nice and lightweight. You can pick it up. It has the regular buttons on here that my heat press has. I'll do a close-up of this for you guys. It has the power button and it has the temperature on here and we're just going to get this started and kind of go from there and we're going to see how it works. I have a 15 ounce mug here. This is a subbing mug and then I have a couple different sizes of my paper printed on the HTV Ron's subbing paper. So I'm going to go ahead, get this set up, get it plugged in, do a little bit of reading really quick. I'm excited to try this because from my watching videos is all you got to do is set the time on here and set the temperature and then it automatically presses it for you. So we're going to see how this works together. So give me one second guys to plug this in and I will be right back. All right. So I hope you guys can see this a little bit better. So here is my mug. I actually went and used the tape and went all around. I'm not sure if it's necessary to go so nuts like I did with it. So I have actually never used a heat press mug, a heat mug press before. So we're going to see how this works out. I've seen videos where they just go nuts with all this tape. So I'm going to try it with a bunch of tape like this. And then I'm going to take another mug that I have with another image and just do a couple around the top and just kind of see how it goes. But I'm just using a regular 15 inch mug and my heat press and I got the heat tape and I also have the gloves here. So after reading more about this, it said that I should put my temperature at 360 and then I did my seconds for 180 seconds, which is about three minutes. So I'm going to show you a little bit closer what this looks like and be careful because it is a very hot. But this is really cool. It's just like my heat press the same thing. You got your power button. You got your time button, your temperature button, a nice big LCD screen and you got your plus up and your minus down to do that. And then all you got to do to set it is you turn it on and then you set it to your temperature. So you want to push this, which is your time. So it does 180. You can go down if you want, go up if you want. And then at your temperature, I set it to 360. It said between 350 and 380. So I'm going to try actually 360 and see how that works. And if you push it again, it will go back to just the regular screen and you can see when it goes up. It's on Fahrenheit and it's also on seconds. So I believe if it's the same as my heat press, it will beep and kind of tell me it's ready to go. So I have this one, like I said, I went nuts with the tape on here and we're going to see how it goes. So I'm going to try this one at that temperature and time. And then I'm actually going to try another one that I have here. And we're going to do it that way and kind of see how that one goes. But as far as my file here, I just got one off of design bundles. I thought this was really cute. And I downloaded it into design space and I printed it out on the HTV Rant subbing paper. And you want to make sure that you mirror your image. This one didn't really matter if you mirrored or not, but it just kind of get in the habit of doing that. So I mirrored the image on here. And then with the lines on here that Cricut prints out with the register lines, I just use the Cricut machine and it cut it out for me. So I had really nothing that I had to do with this. So I'm super excited to see how this is going to go. I'm going to take this one. You always want to make sure you flip your image the other way and make sure that you have it lined up the top and bottom and then all the way over as far as you can. Depending on your size. So there was a size on the Google that told me what size to do. It was way too small. So please practice your sizes. Don't always go off of what Google says or what other when anybody else says you kind of want to make sure what size it is because I wish it was a little bit closer here. So you didn't have so much of a gap, but this is more for practice for me. So we're going to see how these turn out. It's almost getting there. It's at 310 degrees already. Let's just check really quick. So we wanted at 360 so a little bit longer for this. And I'm super excited to see how this is going to work. I believe you can put two mugs in here at once, but because this is my first time trying, I'm only going to do one to start with. So we're going to wait until this gets up to temperature. Once it does, I will come back and I will show you what it looks like and how it works. All right. So unfortunately, you guys did not hear the beep, but actually did beep and tell me that it was hot enough. So I'm going to put my gloves on. Probably not necessary for putting it in, but for definitely for taking it out. So what I'm going to do is actually just take the mug and slide it in here and we're going to see how this works. I'm just going to do I'm going to put it right in the middle. I'm going to make sure my handle is up straight. So we're going to get it as close as we can set 360 at 180 degrees. Then I'm just going to push the green R button here. And we're just going to see together how this works. So it's going to count down from 180 seconds all the way down to zero. So you guys are going to see with me firsthand. I've never used this before. I'm super excited. I love HTV runt. They did not give this to me. I actually purchased this myself. So this is my personal opinion, whether I like it or not. Like I said, I do have their HTV runt heat press and I absolutely love it, but we're going to see how this goes. I did actually tape this one up this next one, but I only did the sides here. I'm not going to do the bottoms. I'm not going to do the top. And we're just going to see how it works. I don't know if you're going to get ghosting here because it's not tight enough there, but we're just going to see how this looks. So 143 seconds left. I will come back when this is all done. Alright, so there's 11 seconds left. I wanted to show you guys what this sounds like and what it looks like right when it comes out. I have my gloves on already so I don't burn myself. I'm super excited to see how this is going to turn out. Okay, so it automatically does it itself. I'm just going to move this out of the way so we can see what this looks like. So I'm going to carefully pull this out of here. Like I said, I have my heat gloves on. It is definitely hot. You can see the smoke here. So we're going to see together what this looks like. It's a little warm now. So I'm going to take my time peeling this off, but I want to see if I need to have all this tape on here. We're going to do another one without all the tape and kind of see what it looks like. But I am super excited. You guys ready? So this is going to be, we're going to do this together. Let me see if I can get in the camera properly. So here we are going to do this together as I can pull this off. So we're going to do it backwards. Alright, ready? Ready? Okay. Alright, that looks pretty good so far. Let's finish. If I had some tweezers, it'd be a little bit easier to peel this off, but it is looking pretty darn good right now. Alright, you know, guys, I am super excited about this. I think so far it looks pretty darn neat. I just need to get a pair of tweezers that I could get this off all the way. Alright, there's a little bit of ghosting on the side. So I think you do really need to go nuts with the tape, but this is just my first time trying. Oh my gosh, guys, that is so cute. Look at that. I hope that shows up so well on there. Look at that. That is awesome. So there is a little bit of ghosting here. I think it's because it wasn't taped well enough. So I think my next one I definitely need to tape more. But you also have to be careful of the top here and then also the bottom so it's all the way straight all around. Sorry, my dog just came over here and knocked over the light. Give me a second to put it back up, guys. Alright, sorry about that. My dog had to come and see me. So here, maybe you guys see a little bit better. But there is some ghosting on the bottom here, which again, I'm okay with because this is my first time using it. But overall, I think this worked out really, really well. The color is beautiful and vibrant. It worked really nice. The top part is really good. So actually, I think my next test is going to be a bust already. So I'm actually going to go ahead and tape all the top, getting it really, really nice and tight, focusing on it to make sure it's nice and tight that you don't have any areas like this on here. So I'm going to go ahead and finish this one, tape it up a lot more and go ahead and do another one and show you guys what that looks like. But overall, very happy of how this looked. Like I said, I really haven't used any heat press mug presses before. But this one turned out really, really cool. And it's so super simple because all I did was set the time and the temperature and it did everything else for me. So I'm going to go ahead and finish taping this up. And then we're going to do a second run at this and see how much better it works. Alright, so we're going to try another one. This one, I went a little bit crazy on and did a bunch of tape. I know that they sell like heat wrap ones that you can put around here like a bag. And then it automatically sucks it in and gets all the air out. But I don't have those and I haven't tried them yet. So I can't recommend it. But I'm going to try this one, do the same thing. I'm going to put it into the mug press. I don't want to burn my hand on here because it is at 360 degrees. And I'm just going to take my mug, put it in here carefully, and then are going to try it again. So again, I'll show you really quick. I'm putting it right in the middle right here. Trying to do it right in the middle. And I'm just going to push this button. And then it automatically does it for you. So it's set at 360 degrees for 180 seconds. I'm going to let this go. We're going to try this one out and kind of see how it looks. Let's see if this one, this one did not cool down too much. But maybe you can see it better with the light in here. It is ghosting down here. But then it gets really beautiful and vibrant there. So definitely really cool for the first mug that I've ever tried. One thing I did not mention is when you are using mugs or anything, just make sure that you clean your mug really well. Like alcohol wipes or anything and let it dry. So you want the outside to be nice and clean and not have anything on it, especially your finger mark. So when you put the glove on, it kind of helps you as well. So there's 137 seconds left. I'm going to let this go. And I'm going to be right back and show you guys what this one looks like. All right. So there's two seconds left. Automatically opens for me. Have my gloves on. And I'm just going to carefully slide this out. And like I said, I think you can put two of them in here. But I'm just going to do one at a time and show you what they look like. So I'm going to move this side of the way. And I did actually bring a pair of tweezers. So we're going to see if this helps a little bit. So I'm just going to go in here and take this. I have no patience. I got to do it right away. Take this off. Much easier with tweezers. So there we go. Take the tweezers and get this piece off down here. If you have patience, which I don't, you can wait for this to cool down a little bit. But I wanted to show you guys what this looks like. So we will see. I think also maybe with this one, and again, you have to play around with it because I can't tell you exact temperature to put this at. But looking at it, it is a little bit yellow. So I'm thinking that it was a little bit warm. So again, you have to make your own decisions on what temperature to put it at. But I don't know if that shows up, but it is a little bit yellow. So I think it burnt a little bit. But overall, it's a lot better than this other one. I don't know if you can really tell the difference on here, but here I'll show you. That's ghosted pretty badly. And then here's this side. So it's really a lot better actually. We had it backwards. So there, I don't know if you guys can really tell the difference on here, but the ghosting on this one is a lot worse. So there it's like this. So you definitely do. That's even hot with gloves on. You definitely do want to tape it really, really well or look into those. I don't even know what they're called. Like the bags that you put around the mugs or tumblers themselves. Maybe I'll look into getting that. But overall, very, very happy with this. I'm going to keep working with this for a little while, give you some more updates on it, do some more videos on it, put some tumblers in it and try it. Super excited. But overall, very impressed with this. I like it that you don't have to sit like with my other ones. You had to dial it in to get the right setting for it. This one is basically like the other one. You set it and you forget it. You put the temperature and put the time in and it does it automatically for you. Really, really love this. I probably would give this an 8 out of 10. I love it so far. I'm going to keep trying it for a while. I'll do some more videos for you guys. But I hope you liked this video. I hope it helped you out and make if you decide to get one of these, I will leave the link in the description below if you wouldn't mind checking out my Amazon page where I have all my subscribe, all my craft stuff on there. If you're interested in getting anything, but overall, really happy with this. Can't wait to make more. Thanks for watching, everyone.