Side by Side Comparison of: Avery vs Silhouette

Used this to transfer team logo to FELT and worked like a champ! I do recommend testing the iron temp first. If it is too hot it will shrink the transfer and/or compact the felt. After lowering the iron temp I had NO PROBLEMS. I will use again, for sure. Our logo has white so the dark transfer was exactly what I needed. If you need to transfer a picture that has ANY WHITE in it - get this DARK TRANSFER sheets. The kids loved them and I was the awesome crafty parent. Woohoo!

I liked this so much that i bought 2 more...then they raised the price. Which doesn't matter because i like it so much I'm willing to pay extra. It prints great! I use the print and cut option with my silhouette cameo machine. This makes life easier than having to layer regular vinyl! I have washed my printed shirts and on one shirt the bottom corner came up, but i just ironed it and it was fine. I have never had problems with wet ink or smearing. I use a ink jet printer. I will always recommend this printable heat transfer paper! Thank you. I'm a very happy customer.

I was skeptical of this because I've used the light colored transfers before and wasn't to happy with results. This makes great quality transfers for dark colors. I felt like I was doing it wrong at first but kept following directions and it turned out great. It did recommend using a straight print tray (which I didn't have) but I used one that bent the paper as printing and it work okay. Going to use this again for sure!

Problem: third grader wanted to do a piano/singing tribute to Bowie, and online printers would not print the design sought due to copy right, though we had modified some of the graphics. Their position was understood. Then I discovered the Avery transfer paper. I bought both the dark and the light color transfer papers not knowing which the little guy would prefer at the end.Here is the upshot, working with both the light and dark paper:• Wash and dryer dry your t shirt/fabric first. A shrunk fabric works best• the more time you spend prepping and the closer you follow the instructions the better your end product• don't be afraid of force (pushing down) and heat• Trimming the extra paper on the light paper minimizing areas that will be clear but somewhat glossy• Trimming the extra areas on the dark paper avoids transferring the color white to the fabric• Through trial and error I figured out it is better to avoid sharp corners to make them round, reducing the risk of corners peeling off• The side of the paper you print on is the white side for both dark and light paper, so make sure you know how to load the paper in your inkjet printer• Your final print area can be larger than a sheet as you can cut images/words from the paper and space them or use them elsewhere on the shirt (for instance, arm badges can be printed in a corner of the same sheet)Trick:• To avoid damage to the reverse side graphics, if you do a front/back design, use a large cutting board or a piece of flat wood slide it in the t-shirt that way the wood sits between the front and back. This also solves the issue of both sides of the t-shirt not being perfectly flat/ironed before you startLight Color Paper:• You need to print in reverse as the image is reflected back on the fabric. I used Powerpoint and flipped the images and writing and avoided the online Avery tool for doing so• As mentioned before, you don't have to cut very precisely as you only leave behind gloss/clear where you don't trimDark Color Paper:• You DO NOT need to print in reverse• You need peel of the printed paper BEFORE initiating transfer with an iron -I wasted one sheet not bing careful• The portion you don't trim transfer as white and you can create a border, rough or smooth, as I did with the front of the dark t shirt• Peeling the transfer portion from the t shirt before ironing is difficult....I used tweezers and eventually I managed to peel off the backing• You use an included parchment paper over the peeled paper to press the image onto the fabricFinal Impressions:• Don't expect professional grade printing• Recognize these are not permanent and are intended for fun and event needs• Mistakes and rough edges on my work is my own haste getting in the wayThis met my needs, to have a front/back t-shirt design on both dark and white t-shirts, using the appropriate paper for each color.**** UPDATE *****Both the white and black t shirts have been washed about 15 times each by now. And, they still look very nice.

I purchased these to make a make a christmas present for a friend and it worked perfectly! I had purchased another brand kit from a local store in the past and it had mediocre results. These worked MUCH better than the other one's I've used and will continue to buy these in the future. One thing to pay attention to is the quality of your printer as if you have a entry level printer or print in "economy" or "draft" mode you will likely have poor results - make sure to set the print quality to the highest setting and you should have great results.

I too was weary of using this as I make vinyl heat pressed shirts and usually avoid ink jet transfers. I have to say I have amazing results. Keep in mind that I have not washed the items yet as they were services for other people. I also use a heat press, so I don't have to worry about pressure. For those interested here are some tips I can provide for great results.*always print the BEST quality but make sure you list your paper as a matte product. It lays the ink accordingly.*I realize this is a reach for the common user but if you have any die cut machine that will, use it to trim! I used the "print then cut" function on mine and it eliminated all the white space for me. This can be done by hand with an exacto pen for similar effect.*if you followed instructions perfectly and your graphic is still slightly sticking to the paper, use a BRAYER. I pressed my shirts a few times and some spots still sticking. I grabbed a brayer I have and smoothed over the paper then gave a final press. I then smoothed it with the brayer again right after, then peeled. No problem!*I prewashed the garment and skipped fabric softener.*I preheated my garment to make sure all moisture was removed.Those were the only noteworthy parts of my process and experience. Hope this helps others!

I don't know how I managed to live without this before. I actually spent over an hour painstakingly putting a vinyl quote on my mother's dining room wall letter by letter a few years ago. Just replaced the whole thing (with decidedly straighter letters) in about 5 minutes with this transfer paper. Just cut the vinyl, weed (take out the parts you don't want like the spaces in the o's, a's, e's, etc.) and place the transfer paper on your vinyl. Lift the vinyl off with the transfer paper and place it where you want the vinyl to go. Then peel the transfer paper off, leaving the vinyl. Voila!

Yes Finally I can start reproducing t-shirts of darker hue for me and who...ever i get them to. the transfers are good, Just have to work on not burning my fingers. I look like i lost a fight with a cheese grater and the original MJ [man in the mirror oot ah] with band aides all over his fingers. With a little experience and patienc e anyone can make nice t-shirts.

Works great with thick fabric but less with thin one (so 80% of the shirt you can buy). If you leave the iron too long on dark color, print color will blend into the color of the fabric. On stronger/thicker fabric white stays white and work great. Texture is nice too, no too thick and doesn't make you feel like you have a plastron in front of you. Made t-shirts for my team for a sport event, worked great but be careful on fine design, because you have to cut it out to not have white background.

I bought these for a project we were doing for father's day. The printing process was really easy, they just slide into the paper slot and print like normal. When I cut out the shape we wanted it was a little hard to get the backing off in order to apply the transfer paper to the shirt. Aside from that it was really easy. It transferred well and looks great.My only caution to you is that if you are doing two items (say a head and a hand print) and want them next to each other but they don't fit on under sheet of the tissue paper they provide, make sure you don't overlap the sheets. I ended up with a funny line on part of the image because the edge of the overlap made a bump.

These are pretty good. The colors are very stable through washes, although the edges do need periodic re-ironing to stay attached. I found out I could use parchment paper (the kind you use for baking) to use when going over the edges and it works as well as the original paper. I have a couple of shirts I made early last year that are still doing quite well, no cracking or fading yet. I think rounded edges would be easier to maintain than images that have corners though, so there is that. I do wash these inside out, in a delicate cycle on my front load washer and dry on low to help maintain the images. I get so many requests to make ppl we know shirts, and I just show them how easy these are to make! I think I have started a local revolution in quality imaged shirts at a rock bottom price.

These worked better than the light shirt transfers. Easier to apply too. The colors were more vivid and it took less time to complete.A few important tios:1. You print these image side up. There is tissue like paper that you place over the image. And you peel the backing off before applying.2. In order for the white to not show, you have to trim the white all out. In other words, if your image contains letters, you should cut them out individually.3. Adding a text box wirh the same filled color as the shirt you are using will help. However, this can be difficult to match up the exact color of ink and the shirt.4. If you are printing smaller images, print a bunch on one page. This will get the most use out of each page. You have to cut and trim anyway...Might as well put the scraps to good use!

With a decent printer and some basic image editing skills, these things allow you to make a decent looking shirt as long as you're not expecting too much. This is no alternative to screen printing, but for small projects it's a much cheaper alternative to having someone else make a shirt for you. I made a dozen shirts for my band's anniversary show to give to long time fans and friends and they looked great. I would not have sold them to people for more than the materials were worth, but as a gift they went over big.If you are looking for sustainable shirt printing, just remember: if properly made they will hold up just fine to a few washings. Using a gentle cycle and cooler water in the wash is recommended. Higher temps and rugged washing will warp the image and cause the color to bleed or fade. The image holds up to cracking better than I would have suspected, but that doesn't matter when the image warps and the color starts rubbing off.FYI: I would recommend buying transfers for DARK clothing only!! The light color transfers have a different process requiring you to flip the image and the pigment is directly transferred to the clothing. With the dark transfers, you peel the image off the backing and it is much sturdier all around. The DARK transfers work better, look better, and hold up to washing better. Don't bother with the transfers for light clothing!

They worked ok. I would recommend cutting rounded corners on your design since they seem to hold up better in the wash. I wasn't a fan of the plastic feeling the decal had even after multiple washings.

I used these for giveaway prizes and they came out great. However, one day I noticed that the colors had run on the design. I'm not sure if it's the way it was washed or something but this really disappointed me since I gave away those shirts to people.They came out great but didn't last ten washes.

I used this on an OD green t-shirt I made for my dad and it worked ok. I spent forever on it, 3 or 4 hours on the design, too long. I followed the directions to the letter and it came off looking not solid, and it had folded over on the edge showing the white underside. Maybe it was user error. What I couldn't believe was the directions said use a pillow, I used a pillow on top of an ironing board. Surely doing it on just the ironing board would work better which is what I was going to do before I read the directions. Maybe next time I'll use just the ironing board.

Once I figured out how to print my design with a dark background it was okay. Example: if you want to transfer text, the background of your text must be dark otherwise it will be white like the transfer paper when it's ironed on. I found it easy to add a dark color background to the text in Word, but had to research to figure out how to change my printer settings to print the dark background. Also, you must trim the design as close as possible because if you don't the transfer will look rough around the edges. I printed a word and cut a straight rectangular shape around it before ironing. After it was ironed, I could see the perfect square around the transferred word. I should have cut more exact around each letter so it looks natural.

I have purchased two of these and made several t-shirts with them. Not sure why, but sometimes it works perfectly but sometimes for some reason the edges does not stick well and after first wash it's coming off. Can't figure out what the problem is or how to avoid it to happen. Round stuff works better than square or if there is thin parts of it. But to get a customized shirt, or make a t-shirt that my kids want but can't find at the store, will work so I would buy again. The colors stay nice, even after several washes.

I originally purchased the wrong Avery product to make a transfer for a dark blue shirt. It was labeled for iron-on transfers for light fabrics and I thought it just meant light weight fabrics. It probably should have said it was for "...light colored fabrics..." and would not work for my application. This Avery product for dark colored fabrics was considerably more expensive, about twice the price for 5 sheet instead of 8. The color worked fine for a simplepattern I created, but when I printed a photograph on one of the transfer sheets, the colors were badly messed up and much darker. Once you trim the transfer to the actual shape you are going to iron on, you then have to peel a very thin color layer off of a thin backing sheet. I found it virtually impossible to do. We finally covered the back of the sheet with strips of vinyl packing tape to reinforce it. Only then would the backing sheet, adhered to the tape, peel off. The Emblem I made with Photoshop worked fine, but I simply cannot bring myself to try this with the photo I want to transfer to the front of another shirt is so dark.

Printed out beautifully only down fall is there is this line through all but 1 sheet of printable transfer paper. So on my prints the line did show even when ironed on. This also happened with Avery light printable heat transfer maybe I got a bad batch twice?..But I won't be repurchasing for a third time for that reason.

The first package of these worked fine and printed beautifully, so I ordered three more for my business. They would not peel off easily and no matter what I did, they would not adhere to the fabric. I lost 2 days work and materials trying to use these transfer sheets. I do not recommend these transfer sheets. I have since started using another brand with excellent results.

This was my first time ordering this brand for dark fabric transfer. I use them with my heat press machine for shoes. Well, this brand did not stick to the canvas material of the shoe after it was under the heat press. I peeled right off the canvas. So then I tried the good old iron exactly to the T of the instructions and the material still would not stick to the canvas. i was disappointed.

I put the shirts into the washing machine as it suggests and the color in my shirt bled onto the white background staining it. Any color fabric is going to bleed and is disappointing that the white background picked up the color. Also in order to keep the transfer from browning or yellowing you need to put regular paper on top the tissue or several more pieces of tissue.

I bought this to make personalized pillowcases for my daughter. She loves softball but hates pink and it's tough to find the right colors for her. It was easy to print on and reasonably easy to iron on. It took longer than they claimed but it wasn't a big deal. I was very cautious to follow all directions. I only washed it the one time after finished as suggested and didn't put it in the dryer. It wasn't long before they all started pulling away from the pillow. They didn't last long at all. I won't even use the unused pages as they are worthless. So disappointed.

I'd previously bought cheap, iron on transfers which transferred the print onto your chosen garment and had been very happy with the result. As the Avery paper appeared to be the same, I bought a pack of this. It isn't the same. The printed image is simply peeled from the backing and the white vinyl piece is attached to the fabric by two minutes of ironing. The resulting transfer is very stiff and plastic feeling and not porous at all. If you're using this for t-shirts, be aware that it will not allow fabric to breathe and, especially on warm days you will find the print portion of the garment sticking to any point of contact. The ink doesn't set and there was considerable bleed of colours. Disappointing.

I used this for more intricate designs and found that after ironing and letting the material cool for 2-3 mins (as prescribed in the instructions) the paper backing would tear off and peel. I had to end up going over the T-shirt with a pick and picking off all of the torn backing from each logo, maddening. I will never purchase this again.

I have tried every technique I know with iron on applications. I heat press vinyl onto shirts all day and wanted to expand my business by offering images. Bad idea with this product. First of all it's very difficult to get the backing off the iron on sheet. Then it says to preheat the fabric. But after preheating and placing the iron on onto the fabric it curls up!!! So I ended up having to use heat press tape to tape down the iron on and try it that way. Just a nightmare overall. Don't buy!

I'm no expert on how to use fabric transfers but I did follow the instructions exactly and it was a nightmare. Ended up taking to someone who has a vinyl/transfer machine. You could hardly tear the backing off the transfer which made it virtually impossible to iron on. Would never buy this stuff again. There's a date stamp on it of 9/29/16 so it's not old. Frustrating!!!!

Followed instructions to the letter...lousy result every time. Pressing iron onto transfer for as little as 5 seconds resulted in scorching. Finally got one that was marginally acceptable but still had iron marks. Put the item in the wash on 'gentle' and many little white spots appeared where the color had come off. Dark colors started to run into lighter colors.Expected the same great quality and ease of use as the light fabric transfers; not even close. Product development needs to do a lot of work on this product and/or instructions.Printed on Canon i6800 inkjet printer on 'T-shirt transfer' setting.

I ordered this product to make shirts for my daughter and a friend of hers. I have a brother inkjet printer. The first transfer printed great, but even though I followed the directions it took two times to get it to stick. When I tried printing the next transfer it came out completely smudged. I printed on regular paper next and the picture was fine so it wasn't the printer. I tried again and again smudged. I tried changing the picture and the same thing happened and then again. Out of the entire pack only one sheet worked. Don't buy.

This product does not work. First, you have to peal the transfer away from the backing. If you piece is too small, it is impossible to get the paper separated. If you are using a full sheet, the transfer is so flimsy, it is hard to lay flat. Although the instructions do not fully explain this, the tissue paper cover needs to be completely cool otherwise the transfer comes off with the tissue. Even if you can get the tissue off, the transfer can be scraped off the fabric with your fingernail.