How To Use The Hotronix Tag Along 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 Tag Along Platen

Compatible with 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 Tag Along Platen, it can only be used with the largest size of Hotronix heat presses, 40x50cm. 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 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 5 different specs of heat press to suit your business and your financial needs.

How to use The Tag Along Platen

This heat press platen offers you two placement areas that can be printed at the same time. It comes with a built-in quick slip platen protector meaning that your t-shirt will just glide onto it quickly and efficiently too. A quick slip platen protector has been proven to speed up every fuse by up to 15 seconds. But ontop of this time saving, you can print two placements with this platen doubling your efficiency again. 

When threading your garment onto this platen just pull your inner neck label area up through and onto the smaller print space. This way you can print both at the same time removing any extra time needed to change platens or fuse neck labels separately.

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You could also pull a sleeve or a leg through onto the neck label area to isolate this for a print too. This would save you having to spend time changing the platen to execute this print later on.

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