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Hi Johnson, and thanks for taking the time to reply. Honestly, I wasn't putting much hope in this. But as I'm in testing phase, I'm testing and learning on every silly thing I can think at As DTF is still kinda new, I found pretty hard to find in-depth informations online. This forum was actually one of the few places. But I am also sure that everyone new to this printing method would have similar questions/curiosities, at some point. So I took the chance to share my experience. Just as I thought it COULD work, someone else might have the same question. Sharing what we learn is probably the best way to grow for everyone. On this specific matter for example, I stumbled upon this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQSu7jkFPaA And yeah, what he is doing is EXACTLY printing on a similar smooth nylon raincoat. He simply missed to try washing it afterwards Even in my case, right after pressing, everything looked just GREAT! However real world also assume peoples to WASH stuffs, and that we did. The problem I'm showing is after a single wash test. It is just like, on flat/smooth, simple water is able to detach everything. But for whatever reason, it appears to stick well while still dry. Right after applying it felt pretty robust too. That made me curious, especially because when it detached it showed no leftover of the glue AT ALL on the jacket... which made me think WHAT it did attach to while on dry material. So, surely those materials will not be inlcuded in our "yes" list. Still, I want to understand what happens. For this we will probably do other tests trying to wash it manually. I want to determine if, on such materials, the detach is physically happening because of plain water, warm water or possibly even detergents. I will post again my results, shall anyone be curious about what happens in specific conditions. Happy Testing!

Updates, to keep you in the loop! So, the previous pics were about a DTF pressed with iron (to better control positioning and...testing!). Now we did another jacket, a cheap nylon one. Same process, after first was this is the result of a test applied with iron: While this other one was applied with heatpress: It looks like, on nylon, the press behaved better than iron. However you can see how all the edges kinda "splashed" all around. With current tests I would probably stop caliming DTF good also for nylon materials like the one of jackets. But I'd be very curious to know if anyone had experiences with these materials.

Hello everyone. First time I post here, although I've been lurking around for quite some time. So, first of all... Hello Everyone, nice to meet you! Why I am showing up: I have a DTF machine and I'm having some fun experimenting. Recently a friend asked about the ability of doing tags to be appied on the shoulder of Polyamide ski jackets, like this one: After applying, all looked great. Then we did a single wash test. Just a normal wash with other clothes, 2 hours, 40 degress, 1200 rpm. I washed a lot of tshirts with those setting and never had a problem. But that jacket went bad. This is what happened: It is just as if it never stuck. It just gently slided away, and left no visible sign of any glue on the jacket. The feeling is that on 100% Polyamide the glue simply did not stick at all. But as everyone uses DTF mostly for shirts, it is just hard to find confirmations of this. And so my question/curiosity is: do any of you have experience with wash durability of DTF when applied on syntetic materials such as poly and nylon (like raincoats)? So far, per my personal test, it seems I can call 100% poly a no-no. But it is also possible I'm still learning and I missed to consider something?