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General Screen Printing / Re: White Ink opacity issues
« Last post by balloonguy on Today at 10:22:48 AM »
I print a good amount of these. I use house blend of 40% clear and 60% smooth white through 156 on the base (double stroke) then top white is all smooth white through a 156, 135 or 110 depending on art. I find the based down base coat makes it easier for me to get a nice smooth base with less pressure. The top coat sits nicely on top of the thin base.
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General Screen Printing / Re: White Ink opacity issues
« Last post by 3Deep on Today at 09:33:05 AM »
I bought one of those double blade squeegee's and found it works really well on 135 140 150 s mesh with the ELT white then a 160 regular mesh for a highlight, sometimes a little thicker print than I want but the white is good....plus all shirts just don't print the same for some crazy reason.
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General Screen Printing / Re: White Ink opacity issues
« Last post by mk162 on Today at 09:14:01 AM »
We are running right at 10% EOM, I might bump it a touch and maybe add a second pass on the squeegee side.
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General Screen Printing / Re: White Ink opacity issues
« Last post by mk162 on Yesterday at 08:51:10 PM »
EOM? Get them stencil walls thickened up maybe?

I'll check them.  I didn't think of that for some dumb reason.
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General Screen Printing / Re: White Ink opacity issues
« Last post by Evo on Yesterday at 08:38:47 PM »
EOM? Get them stencil walls thickened up maybe?
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General Screen Printing / White Ink opacity issues
« Last post by mk162 on Yesterday at 08:26:16 PM »
Man do I feel like a rookie posting this, but recently we are having a dickens of a time getting a good white print on blends like the 6210 or tri-blends.

We are running OneStroke ELT through a 150s mesh with a 155 or 180s highlight, with a smash/flattening screen after the flash.  Still, they look weak.

We are running our pressure around 20-25psi. We've stood the squeegee up to almost 0 degrees and run it down as far as 15 degrees.  We changed squeegee speeds, checked off contact, flash times, cure times, tried a myriad of white inks, etc. Our tensions are great. We've tried swapping squeegees, different durometers, new blades, etc. We just can get anything that looks great.

It's pissing me off because we used to excel with our whites and we can't get back to it.  I should be able to figure it out.
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General Discussion and ??? / Re: Unusable Art
« Last post by 3Deep on May 13, 2024, 03:41:50 PM »
Depending on how large the order is you might be able to build the redraw cost into the shirt price.  That way you could just skip the part where you debate with them about redrawing it.  We use Ignition Drawing for vectorizing, their cheapest fee is $16..

There are vendors that charge $10 or less and have the files back to me in 12 hours. I suck up the fee as my time is way more valuable than 5 emails back and forth plus the frustration created with client

How much can you suck up on 24 36 to 48 pc orders, like I said big or no problem it's the small ones
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General Discussion and ??? / Re: Unusable Art
« Last post by T Shirt Farmer on May 13, 2024, 02:44:06 PM »
Depending on how large the order is you might be able to build the redraw cost into the shirt price.  That way you could just skip the part where you debate with them about redrawing it.  We use Ignition Drawing for vectorizing, their cheapest fee is $16..

There are vendors that charge $10 or less and have the files back to me in 12 hours. I suck up the fee as my time is way more valuable than 5 emails back and forth plus the frustration created with client
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General Discussion and ??? / Re: Unusable Art
« Last post by Evo on May 13, 2024, 02:22:04 PM »
Send a screenshot of the art scaled to print size so they can see what 4 pixels per inch *actually* looks like and they will go hunt for the full res file.
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General Discussion and ??? / Re: Unusable Art
« Last post by 3Deep on May 10, 2024, 01:35:47 PM »
Heck Andy I still get those sponsors on business cards LOL, by the way I finally drilled it into my customers head that art has to be recreated before we can print it :o
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