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screen printing => Waterbase and Discharge => Topic started by: Flying Colors on September 23, 2014, 04:01:50 PM

Title: Discharge of Organic T-Shirts
Post by: Flying Colors on September 23, 2014, 04:01:50 PM

A customer supplied us with 6k Loomstate T-Shirts. The tag says 100% Organic Cotton.

Is there a concern with printing discharge on organic cotton?

We print discharge all the time and feel comfortable printing on normal cotton shirts just did not know if I should look out for something before we do some testing on Thursday.

Mark

Title: Re: Discharge of Organic T-Shirts
Post by: jvanick on September 23, 2014, 04:04:06 PM

I ran a bunch of Anvil Organic about 2 months back, no problems at all.

Title: Re: Discharge of Organic T-Shirts
Post by: blue moon on September 23, 2014, 04:23:52 PM

Quote from: jvanick on September 23, 2014, 04:04:06 PM

I ran a bunch of Anvil Organic about 2 months back, no problems at all.

we've had pretty good luck with Anvil organic ringspun. Some ppl here mentioned not liking them, but it always worked fine for us.

pierre

Title: Re: Discharge of Organic T-Shirts
Post by: Underbase37 on September 23, 2014, 04:27:43 PM

Same here on the Anvil, and  very good luck with a few other brands as well.

Murphy37

Title: Re: Discharge of Organic T-Shirts
Post by: mimosatexas on September 23, 2014, 04:35:06 PM

I have had pretty mixed results with organic in general.  I had a small run of Anvil women's organic come out nice and coffee colored instead of white a few months back, but have had plenty of others work really well.

Title: Re: Discharge of Organic T-Shirts
Post by: tonypep on September 24, 2014, 08:53:40 AM

Its not the cotton its the dye. A truly organic shirt uses "organic" dyes (debatable) which derive from vegetable or mineral matter. Thus the inconsistency.

Title: Re: Discharge of Organic T-Shirts
Post by: Flying Colors on September 24, 2014, 03:11:54 PM

Thanks for the info, will let you guys know how it turns out.

Mark