What are transfers?
A transfer is the movement of a permanent competitive class employee from a position in one title to a position in a different title, or from a position in one agency to a position in another agency. Both positions must be within the competitive class. Transfers occur with the consent of the employee after nomination by the appointing agency and the approval of the Department of Civil Service. Approval by the agency from which the employee is transferring is not required in order for the transfer to occur.
Image transfers are done while the film develops. Instead of using the normal print paper, another receiving surface, such as watercolour paper, is used. The effect is a softened, more diffused picture. I’ve also had some success doing image transfers to a desk. Emulsion transfers are done after the print has dried for a while. The emulsion is actually lifted from the original print and transfered to another surface, like paper or even a hard surface. This only works with Polacolor film.
A transfer is the movement of a permanent competitive class employee from a position in one title to a position in a different title or from a position in one agency to a position in another agency. Both positions must be within the competitive class. Transfers occur with the consent of the employee after nomination by the appointing agency and the approval of the Department of Civil Service. Approval by the agency from which the employee is transferring is not required in order for the transfer to occur.
Transfers are commonly refferred to as “iron on’s”. These two products are very different. A transfer is simply screen printed on to a special type of “release” paper – backwards. Then the paper is aligned on the t-shirt and pressed at over 350 degrees and sometimes up to 100 lbs. of pressure . Unless you have a really “hot” iron and an extremely strong arm, it would be very difficult to apply a transfer without specialized equipment. An iron on is usually created from an inkjet printer or color laser printer. The problem with most of these iron on’s is that they lack the durability of true screen printing ink and the prints end up lying on top of the shirt instead of embedded into the shirt. The thing to remember is that “transfers” are still screenprinted – they are just put on a temporary holding media for a short time. This allows screen printers to keep inventory down by appling your graphic to the shirt you pick out. This helps keep prices low by not over producing a group of shi
