Pretreatment machines and sprays are quick and handy, but they scatter pretreatment a lot. If you want to print on sleeves, collars, pockets, then they spray too much for one print. Then you will need this: a roller.
To apply enough pretreatment evenly and smoothly, you have to choose something special. The size is 180 mm x 50 mm, the inside diameter is 20 mm. Get a handle for your convienience. The following is a set of my tools:
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Our special roller, a tray, a small tooth brush for wiping off dusts and threads on the roller, and pretreatment bottle.
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See the thickness of fine sponge. This catches the enough pretreatment and control the amount.
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Here are the steps of pretreating with our special roller.
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Steps
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Place the roller into pretreatment and make it absorb enough pretreatment.
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Draw the roller softly and remove unnessary pretreatment.
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Roll back and forth smoothly and slowly.
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Roll to apply the necessary area.
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Roll horizontally.
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Apply pretreatment again and roll softly in both vertical and horizontal directions.
When you are not familiar with this work, there may be un-applied gap on the T-shirt. Roll the roller all over the area several times without dropping the roller.
 Weigh the T-shirt to know how much you apply pretreatment. Our option roller is very controllable.
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Cure with heat press, 180 C degree (356 F degree) in 35 seconds with high pressure so that the surface will be flat.
Take care not to wet the pretreated surface with dropped water.
Do not use conveyor oven, we need pressure to make the surface flat.
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When the roller gets dirty with dust and waste threads, wipe them off with a tooth brush. Put the side of tooth brush softly on the surface and wipe off.
Keep the roller wet in pretreatment and put it on a flat place. Do not dry with pretreatment. If there is some dents on the surface then you cannot apply pretreatment evenly.
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If you need higher quality, try Multi-Layer pretreatment. It takes time but works well.
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 When you wash the roller, squeeze it with water and dry perfectly. If you use it again in a wet condition, pretreatment is weakened and damage your print result.
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