What You Need to Do Iron On Transfers? There are kits available that give you everything you need, including software and a t-shirt, or you can assemble your own materials.

Whichever route you go, here's what you'll need for the typical iron-on style oftransferprinted from your desktop printer and applied with a household iron.

Decorate t-shirts, canvas bags, and other fabric items with iron on transfersthat you design yourself and print from your desktop.The iron on transfersare just images flipped around so they look like a mirror image.

If you look at the words on the page before you transfer them to a t-shirt, they all look backwards.This is not a mistake, it's how the transfer must be for it to come out right on the t-shirt. Also note that some new printers will automatically reverse the image when you tell it you are printing iron-on transfers.

I guess they are just being helpful but in our case, I have already reversed the image.You may want to print a test page on regular paper with your printer set to "iron on transfer" to be sure that the template comes out correctly.