Use of Cotton Bags for Life has increased in recent years due to their positive influence on the environment in terms of lowering waste . Many responsible shoppers are now using re-usable cotton bags for their shopping and large stores actively sell them over the counter in a bid to reduce the number of carrier bags given to customers. Plain bags are normally sold for their nominal sum, but if you want to standout from the crowd, bags with design could fetch considerably more. Another option which is much cheaper and more special is to design your very own bag for life, using your very own creative skills and your home printer. Let's get to work.
How To Design Your Own Cotton Bag for Life:
A. Purchase a Plain Cotton Bag - The first step is to purchase a plain re-usable and biodegradable bag from your local store. You might want to purchase a pack of at least 5 bags to apply different designs and to experiment.
B. Prepare Your Design - Not only images could be applied on the bag, but also text using notepad or Word. If you decided to print an image onto the bag, download an image to your computer and ensure the quality is high, the image isn't pixelated and that you are allowed to use the image.
C. Purchase Transfer Paper - Using your own home or office printer, the design should be printed onto a special transfer paper to finally ironed on the bag. Transfer paper also known as iron on paper is available for light or dark cotton bags.
D. Iron The Design Onto The Bag - The most important phase is delivering the design from the transfer paper to the bag and it includes the following steps.
Step 1 - Set your printer to work optimally with the type of paper you bought. For HP printers choose iron on paper (can be found under special paper), for Epson printers choose plain paper and tick 'flip horizontal' to create a mirror image and for Canon printers choose iron on t shirt paper
Step 2 - Lay the bag on to a stable hard surface (not an ironing board) and using a hot iron with a min 1200w iron the transfer paper all over for a few seconds to fix it on to the bag. Iron systematically in small cycles every part of the transfer, spending 5-10 seconds in each position.
Step 3 - Peel off the backing material and the bag is ready.
