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Leo Lichtman[_2_] Leo Lichtman[_2_] is offline
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Default Transferring text/pics to a bowl or pen


"Doug Miller" wrote: No, it doesn't. Mirror-reversing the image has
absolutely nothing to do with
the contrast of the image against its background -- but it has everything
to
do with whether lettering will appear correctly, or mirror-reversed, once
the
transfer is applied.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What you don't seem to get is that a different transfer material is made for
use on dark backgrounds. It incorporates a white layer, and the printer
puts the image on top of this white layer. When the image is ironed on, the
white layer goes onto the tee shirt (or whatever) with the image on top of
it. The image has to be forward reading for this to work. IOW, you don't
flop the image over to iron it on.