If you don't print the ink/colors lighter than what you need, everything will turn out far far darker once the plastic has shrunk down. This isn't too much of a problem, as long as you remember that step. Other than that, this is just fine printable shrink plastic. I wish there was a better price for this, but what can you do? I am happy to have been able to find this product here at Amazon!
- K. Johnson
Kind of spendy but definitely worth it. I have had a lot of fun with this product. It works great for stamping and is compatible with my copic markers. I've made personalized luggage tags with this shrink film and they turn out really nice. You can print both sides.
- Sheri
This is a great product, I used it to print pictures of family and made all of my female family members there own braclets for christms, every one love them. thank you for helping make christmes 2008 one to rember.
- S. Blinn
I used the shrink film to print photos and made a bracelet out of them. I had to lighted the picture a lot since the color is condensed when you shrink them but the quality of the shrink film made them look great!
- A.Reway
I was so excited for this product - but beware that it might not feed through your printer. I tried mine and my neighbor's and neither of our printers would accept this. :(
- Stephanie Combs
I have used this product once (I just ordered my second batch today) and since it was my first time, I was super paranoid and read and followed the directions painstakingly. Because of this, I was able to create very pretty, colorful keychains that sold well at the event I took them to. All six sheets came out well. I do definitely recommend coating them with mod podge to seal the color. The texture is rough so if you're making something you would not like to be rough, this would be another strong incentive to use a clear sealant.I obtained perfectly flat pieces by waiting for them to flatten out in the oven and following up by squashing them down with thin a piece of smooth, coated cardboard and applying force evenly over it with something flat. If a rogue piece was too curled up out of the oven to squash down, I simply pulled it flatter with disposable wooden chopsticks before I put the cardboard down onto it.If you're worried you'll miss an important step just have a short checklist at your elbow to make absolutely sure that you lightened your image by 50% BEFORE PRINTING and punched any holes BEFORE BAKING. Those are the two big things you don't want to forget.
- Heather L. Landry "illustr8ter"
I used the Grafix shrink film to make 64 tokens for a scout camp. I set the printer settings to plain paper and draft mode. I cut with a circle cutter to make the perfect edge. I set the toaster oven to 300 degrees. Why not the oven? Well, I did them in small batches so no need. I placed them on parchment paper on the baking tray. The first batches took about three minutes. The later batches took much less time, because the oven was already hot. They curl up when shrinking, but just leave them be and they straighten up on their own. When they are flat, they're done.The colors turned out beautifully, the edges are uniform and clean. I think the project went very well and I'm pleased with the result. The next time I need a small plastic something, I will turn to this shrink film. It's wonderful.
- Noname
This product does just as it says it does. Just follow the instructions and you will have perfect little charms. The finished texture is a little rough on sensitive skin though.
- Andrea Heathcock Flanagan "AndzMinx"
Grafix inkjet shrink film is the highest quality shrink film I've used to date. Ink dries quickly on the surface. Unlike the popular brand of shrink plastic, this stuff doesn't stick to itself during the curing process. As with other shrink films, keep a spatula handy to flatten the plastic as soon as you remove it from the oven. Highly recommended.
- Pixelated
It works like shrinky dinks normally do but after baking the cut out shapes have a rough texture to them. Not scratchy but you can definitely feel the roughness that regular color and bake shrinky dink film doesn't have.Other than that it worked fairly well for what I had in mind which was printing out family photos and creating gifts for family members. Note of warning, darker pictures will seem MUCH darker after shrinking so if you have a way of lightening the pics before you print and bake them your pieces will look better in the finished product. Black&White photos came out just as nice and the color pics. One last thing, which I think was my fault for free hand cutting and rounding edges of my pics, is that some (not all) of my pics shrank at an angle making the rectangles and squares offset.All of the things I listed above wouldn't keep me from using this product again, but I know more now than I did before I wasted a few sheets. I would use them again, but better tools, planning, and prepping photos prior will be necessary. Hope my trial and errors help you out in advance if you're interested in using this product!
- Underwater Attack Cat
cut with scissors, die cut machines and punchesWhen cooled to room temperature it becomes thicker and hardPrint your art and shrink ..
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