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Title: Adidas A372
Post by: eliteinkprinting on June 30, 2021, 05:12:12 PM
Does anyone have experience with these shirts? They are 92% poly and 8% elastane. Not sure if that's code for elastic or not. Super stretchy material that usually is a pain to load and unload. Looking for white ink recommendations to use on these garments. Thanks!
Title: Re: Adidas A372
Post by: cbjamel on June 30, 2021, 06:22:58 PM
Add stretch additive for sure. but you lose opacity. If i remember worthless after that.
Shane
Title: Re: Adidas A372
Post by: Frog on June 30, 2021, 06:57:01 PM
Add stretch additive for sure. but you lose opacity. If i remember worthless after that.
Shane

I don't think that adding stretch decreases the ink's life, just its opacity as mentioned.
Title: Re: Adidas A372
Post by: cbjamel on June 30, 2021, 08:39:20 PM
Add stretch additive for sure. but you lose opacity. If i remember worthless after that.
Shane

I don't think that adding stretch decreases the ink's life, just its opacity as mentioned.
the stretch life stops I think.
Shane

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Title: Re: Adidas A372
Post by: Frog on June 30, 2021, 09:01:59 PM
Add stretch additive for sure. but you lose opacity. If i remember worthless after that.
Shane

I don't think that adding stretch decreases the ink's life, just its opacity as mentioned.
the stretch life stops I think.
Shane

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That's something I'll have to look into. I use the additive from International Coatings, and never heard that.
Title: Re: Adidas A372
Post by: BrazosDesigns on July 01, 2021, 12:10:07 PM
I hate those kind of shirts...

International Coatings Performance Pro white for base or white.  I typically run a flash to preshrink, print, flash, print top colors or highlight then flash and cure on the heat press to keep temps at 270 to avoid weird issues if running a small batch.  Maybe that's just me...