Guide
Storing transfers
Finished DTF transfers keep best flat, cool and dry. Fold one through the print, or leave a stack in a hot car, and they stick to each other or curl before you press them.
Keep transfers flat, in a sleeve or between sheets of paper, out of direct sun. A cool cupboard beats a windowsill and beats the back of a van in July. Damp air can leave the film tacky. If a sheet feels wet or the powder looks disturbed, do not press a customer’s shirt with it. Press a scrap, or discard it.
Do not fold through the design. A crease in the adhesive shows up as a line on the garment. Cut gang-sheet pieces want the same treatment. Write the peel type on the sleeve if you have more than one film in the drawer. Cold, warm and hot are easy to mix up a month later, and the peel is how prints get ruined in the first second after the press opens.
Nothing on the Xpres pressing guide is a storage life. When your supplier prints one, that date is the instruction.
Common questions
How long do they last?
As long as the supplier prints on the packet. This site does not invent a shelf life. Use older sheets first, and if a sheet is past the date they gave you, test one before you promise a batch.
The film has stuck to the next one.
Warmth or pressure did that. Peel them apart slowly. If the adhesive has lifted off its own film, that piece is done. Do not press it and hope the shirt will sort it out.