<i>If so, why haven&#x27;t I ever seen a dryer that starts hot and transitions to cool as the clothes dry out?</i><p>I&#x27;m pretty sure that all of the three dryers we&#x27;ve had in the last twenty years had a permanent press setting that does exactly that. Our current one certainly does, and it&#x27;s just the front-loader that was on sale at Home Depot, nothing fancy.