Help...Black color bleeding on shirts!

[momto3inmn]

Wondering if someone could help me! I purchased my shirts (Michaels), washed them before doing the transfers, used Avery dark t-shirt transfers, ran them through a vinegar wash, and noticed that some of my shirts, in areas where there was any black, have a pink/redish cast around it I am still in the process of making shirts and want to avoid it from happening on any more. Any suggestions to what could be happening? Help!

Deb

 

[belle41379]

Deb,

Could be that your iron was too hot. I think that's what happened to 2 of mine. They are on royal blue shirts, and where there is white some of the blue from the shirt came through. I figure I either had the iron too hot or ironed them too long. I'd try that and see if it helps.

Good luck!

 

[heartbeeps]

probably iron on too hot OR too long.

 

[lisabelll]

This happened to me too. I went ahead and put another transfer over top of them and lowered the heat on the iron. With mine though I was also afraid that the transfer were older (I bought them last year, they were left over). But redoing them that way worked out great, they look really good now

 

[momto3inmn]

I'll have to give that a try! I never would of thought it could be that! Hope it works! Thanks!

Deb

 

[everydaymathchick]

I'll have to give that a try! I never would of thought it could be that! Hope it works! Thanks!

Deb

Wait wait! I think I'm understanding your original question different than everyone else. You're NOT saying that the black shirt seems to be showing through on the white part of the transfer? You ARE saying that around things that were black on the transfer (that printed black) that there is some smudging/running of a reddish color?

That sounds like a haze from the ink running a bit. That happened to me on a shirt I did and washed. I just ran it through the rinse cycle again, and the color that had bled washed away. It was from having too much ink on the transfer. I had Avery light transfers, and it didn't say what quality to print with, so I chose best... which was too much ink. If color ran, don't dry them! It will set the color. Rinse again.

Hope that helps. Not sure if I totally read it wrong, but I wanted to give you another opinion just in case.

 

[momto3inmn]

You are exactly right, it was the ink that ran. So frustrating when you put all the work into the shirts! I will try the second rinse next time it happens, and try not to print with too much ink! Hope it works! Thanks!

Deb

 

[heartbeeps]

Wait wait! I think I'm understanding your original question different than everyone else. You're NOT saying that the black shirt seems to be showing through on the white part of the transfer? You ARE saying that around things that were black on the transfer (that printed black) that there is some smudging/running of a reddish color?

That sounds like a haze from the ink running a bit. That happened to me on a shirt I did and washed. I just ran it through the rinse cycle again, and the color that had bled washed away. It was from having too much ink on the transfer. I had Avery light transfers, and it didn't say what quality to print with, so I chose best... which was too much ink. If color ran, don't dry them! It will set the color. Rinse again.

Hope that helps. Not sure if I totally read it wrong, but I wanted to give you another opinion just in case.

yep, I understood that to be the case (experienced it myself on one or two shirts - out of 70+) so, I still stick by my guess that it was the iron too hot or too long. I did not change the ink setting on any of mine and only had it occur on a couple of shirts that's why I think it's the iron.

 

[everydaymathchick]

But if the iron's too hot, the bleeding will occur when the ironing happens, not after the wash cycle. I've had both happen -- iron too hot, so the color bled through from the shirt onto the white, and colors ran after I washed the shirt.

You can keep your ink settings the same. Just do the extra rinse cycle. It will rinse out the ink that bled before setting it with the heat in the dryer.

Also -- did you leave your shirts sitting wet in the washing machine for a while? That was my biggest enemy when washing iron-on'ed shirts. That makes the colors bleed too. They need to go immediately to the dryer.

While I'm newer to the DISboards, I am not new to iron-on transfers.