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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: AntonySharples on February 23, 2015, 11:24:51 PM
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We print a lot of poly, so we are pretty versed at running it, but I ran into a problem with the new camohex hoodies from Sanmar. This stuff is bleeding through at 280-300 degrees. Even under the flash. Has anyone ran these yet? Thinking of trying silicone ink, but wanted to see if anyone has tried that yet.
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Use water base.
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those are sublimated i think. we've found the sublimated stuff to be hit or miss printing it. we got in a ton of it last year to test print (mainly the badger digital camo stuff). some colors worked great without an underbase. some colors bled no matter what we did. i feel like it has a lot to do with the dyes used. we were using wilflex performance white. usually has pretty good low bleed properties.
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Use water base.
I didn't know water based inks would "stick" to polyester.
What brands do you use?
I rarely use straight water based due to poor opacity, but I use WB discharge quite a bit.
Stan
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those are sublimated i think. we've found the sublimated stuff to be hit or miss printing it. we got in a ton of it last year to test print (mainly the badger digital camo stuff). some colors worked great without an underbase. some colors bled no matter what we did. i feel like it has a lot to do with the dyes used. we were using wilflex performance white. usually has pretty good low bleed properties.
Same here. I was told that the silicone ink should cure the problems, but having not actually seen it work on these types of garments, I am skeptical. Silicone ink and the catalyst is very expensive to just try and see if someone has already been down that road.
As far as water base, the only water base I have seen that is good for poly is Virus. Supposed to going out to California in March to meet with them at a demo.
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those are sublimated i think. we've found the sublimated stuff to be hit or miss printing it. we got in a ton of it last year to test print (mainly the badger digital camo stuff). some colors worked great without an underbase. some colors bled no matter what we did. i feel like it has a lot to do with the dyes used. we were using wilflex performance white. usually has pretty good low bleed properties.
Same here. I was told that the silicone ink should cure the problems, but having not actually seen it work on these types of garments, I am skeptical. Silicone ink and the catalyst is very expensive to just try and see if someone has already been down that road.
As far as water base, the only water base I have seen that is good for poly is Virus. Supposed to going out to California in March to meet with them at a demo.
Contact Rob Coleman from Nazdar Source One. They might send you a small sample of silicone ink. He is member here.
The ink is a bomb. Prints like a charm. I never printed in on sublimated garment tho.
Printed a few jobs on poly and they came out great.
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OneStroke has a dye-sub blocking ink that is supposed to be crazy good.
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We just got the sample pack from One Stroke of the poly block inks and the samples they sent with the ink look pretty good. Not real sure about laying a black underbase down but that is what they have. Hope to try it later this week. I'm pretty sure we have some garments around here that have had a bleeding problem.
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Use water base.
I didn't know water based inks would "stick" to polyester.
What brands do you use?
I rarely use straight water based due to poor opacity, but I use WB discharge quite a bit.
Stan
Matsui have a polyester and nylon suitable ink that cures at lower temp. and if you add their low cure additive you can go even lower. Around 130 degrees Clesius if I remember that right.