Tips & FAQs
Usage Tips
To get the best possible print results on cotton and cotton-blend shirts, we recommend you heat-press the shirts right before printing them, as follows:
- Temperature: Max. 330F
- Pressure: 80+PSI
- Time: 20 seconds
Then, once printed, simply cure the ink according to your ink manufacturer's specifications.
We recommend you cure the printed shirt based on your ink manufacturer's specifications.
Product & Process Information
Yes! If you'd like us to pretreat a style or color of shirt that's not on our website, simply let us know.
Yes - we offer custom pretreating services! You can either send us garments directly, or have them shipped to us from your favorite vendor.
CheaterTee uses a customized formulations of FIREBIRD pretreatments, that have been adjusted to allow for optimal usage in our FIREBIRD Industrial Processing systems.
Depending on your order, we will pretreat our 100% Cotton and Cotton-Blend garments as follows:
Colors
- Colored garments are pretreated using a variant of CheaterTreat.
White
- White garments are processed using a variant of FIREBIRD FBX-VIVID.
Yes, all garments we carry are fully pretreated, inside and out. Simply heat press them and they are DTG ready!
Since we pretreat the entire garment using a fully-immersive process, you may notice a slight increase in weight, in comparison to an identical style shirt that is not pretreated. We've found in our product testing, that a close to original garment feeling can be restored, when the fully pretreated shirt is washed before wearing, by the end-user.
Orders typically ship out within 3-5 business days of being placed.
If you require an expedited handling or would like to upgrade your shipping speed, please contact us.
