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Offline Maxie

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Fibrillation solutions?
« on: October 06, 2017, 12:22:44 PM »
This week we printed baseball style shirts, navy and red sleeves, white body, 100% cotton.
Customer wanted print to match sleeve color.
All good until the wash, one wash and the navy print was much lighter than the sleeve, red still looked ok.
I've read about print flash print same color or with a clear base.
Any other solutions to this problem?

Maxie Garb.
T Max Designs.
Silk Screen Printers
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Offline Colin

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Re: Fibrillation solutions?
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2017, 12:41:31 PM »
What mesh count did you use?


pms color/ink system?  If pigment, what base?


What squeegee hardness?  Strokes?  Pressure?


Did you print any color wet on wet?


I can give you general rules to follow, but knowing what you did to print that garment, goes even further, to fix what you did.
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Offline ZooCity

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Re: Fibrillation solutions?
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2017, 04:49:36 PM »
Waterbased ink is the best solution here. 

All of the plastisol soft hand options will fibrilate eventually printing dark ink straight to a white shirt.

For plasti, the clear base is a good solution as well.  Colin turned me on to a product from Rutland that performs incredibly well as a first down clear....he might need to chime in again I can't remember what it's called, maybe "Primer Clear"?

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Re: Fibrillation solutions?
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2017, 06:55:34 PM »
Yup, Primer Clear.

We use the Ultrasoft version.

We will also pigment it with the C3 Color Boosters.  It does really well to trap fibers by itself.  If we want a super soft hand with more fiber matte, we will typically mix 50/50.  Use a harder blade to drive it into the fabric like waterbase.  Done right you will still have a small top layer deposit helping with fiber trap.  Yes, there is still some fibrelation, there will always be some level of fibers coming loose unless you lay down a LOT of ink.

Otherwise, W.B. like Zoo said.
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Re: Fibrillation solutions?
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2017, 07:33:50 PM »
+1 for waterbased

There is as well additive like NPT FIBERBOND

https://www.rutlandinc.com/ink-product/npt-fiberbond/
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