Can You Heat Press Vinyl Onto Wood

Sublimate your vinyl then press.

Can you heat press vinyl onto wood.

Not only can you use htv on wood but i actually prefer it to adhesive vinyl in many cases. As i already mentioned sometimes adhesive vinyl on wood can be a struggle. There s two different orders in which you can sublimate your vinyl. We ll show you how to apply permanent vinyl to stained wood permanent vinyl to painted wood and heat transfer vinyl to wood.

Too long will make the vinyl ripple not long enough will allow it to peel back when you remove the top plastic. I ve used it on both stained sealed wood the large one and untreated wood as in the title image with no issues. Apply the design to the wood. I used my easy press to attach the heat transfer vinyl to the wood.

Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron. This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood. Press your vinyl first and then sublimate. Place your design down and get it where you d like it.

Then cut your file using your vinyl cutting software weed it and press it on your wood. To find the appropriate setting you can use this handy guide that lists all the times and temperatures to press onto many surfaces. If you re not sure how durable your acrylic is do a little test. Turn on your easypress and set it to the proper wood setting for iron on vinyl download a heat settings chart here 300 and 40 seconds.

When applying any htv to a wood surface you will use a temperature of 300 f and hold for 40 seconds. Once you ve pressed let it cool then peel off the carrier. For our siser glitter it is recommended that you press it on a temperature of 320 degrees fahrenheit for 15 seconds on medium pressure. This test did work but depending on what you re ironing we have no guarantee that the htv will stick forever to the acrylic.

Avoid putting the vinyl up to the edge of the wood. Peel off carefully remember we ve turned down the pressure so parts may not have adhered fully. More color and style options. Heat transfer vinyl is not as glossy as most permanent adhesive vinyl and the more matte finish looks closer to paint and less like a sticker.

This experiment is a perfect example of why you need a teflon sheet if the acrylic had melted the melting plastic wouldn t have ruined my iron. For complicated designs like the floral one you can see in the above gallery it s easier to do option 2. The short answer is yes but keep reading to learn three awesome ways to add vinyl to wood. If it s simple like our little guitar you can go with option 1.