Cannot Get My Vinyl To Stick To The Transfer Tape

Check for instructions for the vinyl you are using and make sure all of your settings are spot on.

Cannot get my vinyl to stick to the transfer tape.

Attach a small area of transfer tape to your design. If you are having trouble burnish again and peel even more slowly using your fingernail to help guide the vinyl off the transfer tape. The trick is to flip the piece of vinyl with the transfer tape on it over. Use a scraper to burnish transfer tape onto.

This can either be the center or one end of your design. I am trying to get some very small words to stick to very smooth plastic but the surface is so slick that the letters stay on the transfer tape. Peel off the vinyl backing removing it from the transfer tape and vinyl as opposed to trying to peel the transfer tape and vinyl away from the backing. Peel liner from transfer tape.

I am using cricut black outdoor vinyl and cricut transfer tape. Your vinyl is not sticking to your transfer tape. Fortunately no matter what the reasoning is for your vinyl not sticking to the transfer tape you can get around that. I had to be careful not to remove the carpet from the floor with the super strength adhesive on the transfer tape.

Pressing or ironing for too long can have. Time pressing or ironing for too short a time can cause htv not to stick to your shirt. Then carefully peel back the transfer tape at a 45 angle or more. Time temperature and pressure are all extremely important factors when you are using htv heat transfer vinyl.

But really it should work really nicely on plastic. Since the plastic is smooth and nonporous the vinyl should stick fairly easily. After i cut the vinyl with my cricut air 2 measure and cut the transfer tape to fit my vinyl i peel the backing off the transfer tape and stick it down onto my shag carpet. You create a decal but only some of the letters stick onto the transfer tape while the rest are left behind on the backing paper.