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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: Rockers on July 17, 2015, 04:11:13 AM
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We got some koozies to print but honestly I have no clue what type of ink to use. Normal plastisol for 100% polyester , or Nazdar DA inks as they air cure? Maybe waterbased?
Well we tried NAzdar DA inks but the print came out not very bright white but that is maybe due to the fact that we used a 225 mesh.
The design is fairly fine.
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We use 100% poly ink with and add a little puff to the ink.
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Yes I read as well about adding puff but honestly I would not know how it would possibly make our prints any better then they are now.
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I much prefer heat pressing plastisol transfers to direct printing. The finish is much smoother since you don't need the puff. I stick to smaller quantities in house since you can outsource it and get the printed koozies for like 5 cents more than blanks...
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We've printed tons of Koozies and the reason for the puff in the ink is to make it just a little thicker on certain color inks that don't cover very well such as yellow on black koozies. We print ours on our manual with those little pocket pallets not hard at all.
Darryl
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We've printed tons of Koozies and the reason for the puff in the ink is to make it just a little thicker on certain color inks that don't cover very well such as yellow on black koozies. We print ours on our manual with those little pocket pallets not hard at all.
Darryl
We do the same, I actually like printing koozies. I also drink lots of beer and use koozies all the time. haha! I will not print on cheap koozies here. I think of the puff as a texture builder. The right amount of puff will not only make the koozie look great but also feel good. 8)
I use puff on all koozies, even with black ink.
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Just printed some Navy neoprene koozies with a Maxo Lemon Yellow. Came out lookin great.
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we print them all the time as well.. remember that they won't be washed, so you can get away with a lower cure temp too, so you don't risk dye migration...
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We print thousands of koozies on the auto and puff does help with the yellow's and bright colors on black. No flashing of course. Hence the usefulness of puff. Not a lot, just the right amount
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Since I've printed ZERO Koozies in almost 7 years, that brings my average daily total to.....um....around zero.
How the heck do you print a KOOZIE anyhow!!??
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I second Mimosa here, we print zero koozies and instead outsource the printing. Where are you guys getting your blank koozies from? When we ran the blank cost vs. the printed price it wasn't worth it to bring it in house. Maybe I've just got the wrong source for blanks.
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Sourcing the blanks should be a separate post in the appropriate subforum to save frog the hassle of splitting the thread. There are quite a few cheap as hell sources though. I think I usually pay around 35 cents max for a blank koozie at 250 units and a lot less on larger orders. Printed they seem to run around 10-15 cents more than the blanks if I remember right, maybe even less depending on quantity. Basically it makes no sense to print bigger orders in house when places specialize in them and charge basically nothing.
I do quite a few smaller orders in house though, and have lots of koozies on hand most of the time. I almost always heat press plastisol transfers vs direct printing. No loading or unloading on a pallet, no sending through the dryer, no per unit printing time. I can usually tile around 20 prints per transfer sheet and press around 6 a minute on the hat or label press, sometimes alternating between both and getting maybe 8 a minute when I'm rolling. The transfers don't require puff to achieve opacity on light colors so you can hold better detail and they have an almost non-existent hand. I much prefer that to direct printing...
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What is the material?
We have a lot of great prints using the DA series ink. just adding to options. ;D
DA Series is a two-part polymerizing screen ink that has been formulated to be extremely flexible and resistant to laundering and dry cleaning as well as ironing. DA Series is highly opaque, extremely flexible and elastic ink for printing and flocking most synthetic and natural textiles, including waterproof nylon and other synthetics having a finish. Pretesting of waterproof nylon is recommended.
https://sourceone.nazdar.com/P/3331/DA-Nylon-and-Flock-Screen-Ink