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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: screenxpress on August 27, 2014, 09:53:46 PM
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I'm going to be printing some dri-fit shirts and wondered it I need to plan on putting some stretch additive in the ink.
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I just printed some today with Wilflex Top Score white pfp thru a 225 murikami smesh static. Print came out awesome and the ink was nice and soft, has a little stretch to it, covered well with no puff and cures at 290. Nice nice stuff compared to Rutland Super Poly that I have been using. And better yet Nazdar has it on sale.
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Ok, my bad. I should have provided a bit more info.
I used QCM WOW Red for the customers cotton shirts and it's a small order so planned on using the same ink.
Not up for buying ink just for this small run.
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What color are the dri-fits? I would be more concerned with bleed than stretch. If the shirt color is lighter than the ink color you should be fine.
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Shirts are light grey and ink is bold red and also black
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Yeah I would print it with what you have if a small run.
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Shirts are light grey and ink is bold red and also black
Those colors don't have to be thick, so they will stretch just fine with the fabric... I assume you don't print a thick layer of dark colors on light garments.
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Not expecting the dri-fit to come up, the screen I made up is a 110, so hope it won't be too heavy for the dri-fit. That's why I was wondering about the stretch additive, which I do have around.
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Ah, yeah we would probably be using a 180s on the manual for those colors... It's funny I can't even relate to regular "t" mesh as we've never used enough of it. I guess I'd have ran that on a 156 if I had t mesh.
You are gonna wish all of them were dri fits... They are so nice to print on.
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Dri Fit is not necessarily stretchy. It just denotes a wicking function.
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110 shouldn't present a problem, one stroke and done
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Thanks for the tips.