The Complete Heat Transfer Vinyl Washing Instructions Guide Heat Transfer Vinyl (HTV) is a printing method where your design is printed onto vinyl before being pressed and transferred onto your clothing or fabric using a heat press. As you can understand, it’s important to know how to wash vinyl clothing properly, or you risk damaging the vinyl or having it crack or peel from the fabric. The most common problems that people encounter when washing their heat transfer vinyl clothing is that they wash it in water that’s too hot…