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  1. Posted

    8 hours ago, Dakotagrafx said:

    I had to ask as we have had numerous newbies try sign vinyl on shirts :)

    check your heat with an IR thermometer - many times the temps are off and not even across the platen on lower end heat presses  - 3 factors for successful heat pressing is time, temp and pressure.  I always use siser ez weed or thermoflex.  one thought is some shirts bought in stores are sprayed with a substance to make them lay pretty on shelves - so I buy from places like sanmar and jiffyshirts.    

    another thought is, did you pre press for 5 seconds to remove any residual moisture in the shirt before pressing?   

    Yes the shirts are from jiffyshirts and i did prepress the shirts. I think i have a ir thermometer in my nitro car box. Ill check it later today, thanks!.

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    1 hour ago, Dakotagrafx said:

    what HTV are you using is a good place for us to start

    Whatever they packed with my kit. No brand on it, that I seen(link below). Tested on a 100% cotton shit and worked like it should.

    wife ran out and bought some Cricut sport flex vinyl and while it stuck a little better, it seems like it will fall off after a wash or two.

     

    USCutter Bundle: 28" SC2 Vinyl Cutter + 15x15 Heat Press Htv Sign Vinyl https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077MW1CRD/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_aTXADb836E5V3

  3. Posted

    Really new here and trying to make some shirts for work. I have the uscutter 15x15 and from the reviews one said not to use the heat transfer paper that comes with it, cause it wasn't working for them either.

     

    any truth to this? I calibrated the machine, added more pressure, more heat and they still wont completely stick.

     

    Any advice will be greatly appreciated 

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    23 minutes ago, slice&dice said:

    Congratulations. You should be on-track to get your machine cutting now with the VinylMaster program, which is quite nice.

    By the way, SBE has a detailed LIBRARY (Draw menu) of ready-to-cut graphics, it's worth having it installed just for those items.

    Animals & fish, shapes, religious symbols, zodiac, shields, road signs, arrows & ampersands, etc etc.

     

    SBE?

     

  7. Posted

    Wow I’m such a moron

    The wife found it in between 2 boxes. The cutter was in a brown box then placed in a white uscutter box. I thought this morning to look for an invoice thats usually taped to the side of the box but nothing. She gets home from works and finds it by taking the brown one out.

     

    she hasnt stopped rubbing it in either.

     

    eitherway, thanks for the suggestions and for trying to help. 

     

     

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  8. Posted

    1 hour ago, slice&dice said:

    You can immediately get that cutter to run using SignBlazerElements (LiYu is the model to select).

    I seem to recall the VinylMaster is a download, and the activation code appears on a card within the parts box.

     

     

    Was going to look into another program, Mac compatible would be awesome. Son hates that i have to use his gaming pc 

     

    and yeah, nothing in the box beside the stand and cutter.

  11. Posted

    New here, just received my start up package yesterday and will be using the forum a lot for help and info. Ran into an issue already!

    anyone else get their cutter with no software? I will be contacting as soon as they open but i triple checked everything for a key. Was really looking forward to getting started this weekend :-/