How To Use The Cap Bill Heat Press Platen

The Hotronix Lower Platen range is a series of 15 interchangeable platens compatible with all Hotronix heat presses. They've been designed with heat printing versatility in mind so that your heat press purchase is a purchase for life (not just for Christmas). As your heat printing business grows and you look into introducing new products and different garments to your business offering, Hotronix ensures that you can do that without having to shell out for a new heat press over and over again. 

The interchangeable platen range clips in and out of each Hotronix heat press. Look for the lever under the right-hand side of your lower platen, pull it out towards you, and you'll be able to slip your platen on or off. 

The platen range enables you to print a multitude of unique and high-value products such as shoes and caps. 

But today we're exploring the use of the Cap Bill Platen

Compatible with a 40x40cm or a 40x50cm Hotronix heat press

Because the Hotronix heat press range comes in many sizes. We offer heat presses with upper platens in sizes: 28x38cm, 40x40cm and 40x50cm. Unfortunately, if a heat press platen size is larger than your heat press heated platen size, when you bring your press down for a fuse, you risk parts of your garment not being under the heated platen. So while a large platen on a small heat press wouldn't be wholly incompatible, it does render their uses limited. 

Because of the size of the Cap Bill Platen, it can only be used with the largest sizes of Hotronix heat presses, 40x50cm and 40x40cm. Lucky for you, if you haven't bought one yet, you've got lots of choice. The Maxx Clam and The Auto Open heat presses both offer a 40x40cm or 40x50cm size. The Fusion IQ, Air Fusion IQ and Dual Air Fusion IQ all come as a 40x50cm heat press as standard. So you can choose from 9 different specs of heat press to suit your business and your financial needs.

How to use the Cap Heat Press Platen

If you thought you needed a hat press to print caps, think again.

While a cap press offers a traditional front of cap placement opportunity, there is another way to decorate custom hats and caps

A cap bill platen allows you to add decoration to the stiff peak of a cap, otherwise known as a cap bill.

Place the cap upside down in the semi-circle crevice of the platen and rest the cap bill on the platen. This allows you to print the underside of a cap but top tip, if you turn your hats inside out, you can also print the top side of the cap bill too.

Adding caps to your business offering is an extremely profitable move. Blank hats cost like £1-2 each but retail once decorated for up to £40 per cap.

You could also use the platen protruding areas to print other things like scarves, socks or anything that will drape off or slide onto it.

Check out the other 14 platens in the Hotronix Interchangeable Platen range below: