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Towels - WB screen printing or embroidery?
« on: September 12, 2017, 03:39:28 PM »
Customer looking to do 100 rally towels for their high school band. They would be using them for wiping sweat .

 what method of imprinting would you guys recommend?

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Re: Towels - WB screen printing or embroidery?
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2017, 03:59:46 PM »
Rally towels are usually for waving; we have a order going right now where they brought one in from an ASI supplier, and it was printed in plastisol. For golf towels, plastisol is OK, but for making contact with skin, WB. That being said, I'd to try that new Watercolor plastisol from One-Stroke on a towel and see how it works...

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Re: Towels - WB screen printing or embroidery?
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2017, 04:00:35 PM »
We ran 1,200 yesterday with single pass Soft Base plastisol.  No difference in feel from WB. 
They were Orange towels, Maroon ink.
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Re: Towels - WB screen printing or embroidery?
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2017, 12:28:07 PM »
We ran 1,200 yesterday with single pass Soft Base plastisol.  No difference in feel from WB. 
They were Orange towels, Maroon ink.

If you don't mind me asking, what mesh are you running to get some penetration, but still have a good hand?

Steve
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Re: Towels - WB screen printing or embroidery?
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2017, 01:14:30 PM »
We ran 1,200 yesterday with single pass Soft Base plastisol.  No difference in feel from WB. 
They were Orange towels, Maroon ink.

If you don't mind me asking, what mesh are you running to get some penetration, but still have a good hand?

Steve

...and good opacity to really be maroon?
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Re: Towels - WB screen printing or embroidery?
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2017, 04:34:46 PM »
I would like a brochure as well.  :)


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Re: Towels - WB screen printing or embroidery?
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2017, 08:30:53 PM »
We ran 1,200 yesterday with single pass Soft Base plastisol.  No difference in feel from WB. 
They were Orange towels, Maroon ink.

If you don't mind me asking, what mesh are you running to get some penetration, but still have a good hand?

Steve

155.  Opaque, and nearly no hand at all. 
Just So Soft additive from WM Plastics is the secret.
Scott Garnett
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