Having done heat transfers for years....here's some help....get a teflon 'pad' (I think Stahls has one) it is like a thin (not even 1/4") teflon covered bag with some sort of padding in it...and slide this inside EVERY garment before you heat seal it. The first heat press I ever had was a 'raised' platen-almost like a screen press-you would open the shirt and slide it on the plate, collar towards you-so there was always ONE layer of material on the platen, not front and back of the shirt-like new 'flat' bed sealers. This is why you need the teflon 'bag pad'. Sublimation transfers will NOT penetrate or stick to teflon, another reason to have a teflon sheet ON TOP of your paper transfer-prevents anything from sticking or resublimating to your 'hot' platen and then retransfering to the next item. If you have trouble with a VINYL transfer showing through the front of the shirt, not a 'sublimation' imprint-then your heat and pressure are too high and too hard....and I would STILL use a pad inside the shirt. I never had that problem with regular transfers-digital print on vinyl or straight cut vinyl....only with sublimation transfer. AND KEEP IN MIND....all your 'soccer' type shirts-the 100% poly material, basketball, etc.- with the crazy designs in the fabric-those are SUBLIMATED dyes, and once you hit 375 degrees-you can RE-sublimate that design-which means that you can 'push' that design to the front on the shirt, or back-because the heat causes the ink to turn into a gas dye again.... teflon sheets-gotta luv 'em! Roland =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================