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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: Logoman on April 21, 2022, 05:23:34 PM

Title: Pull Test
Post by: Logoman on April 21, 2022, 05:23:34 PM
If you pull the print apart is it always under cured if the ink cracks?
Title: Re: Pull Test
Post by: Frog on April 21, 2022, 05:26:13 PM
If you pull the print apart is it always under cured if the ink cracks?

Plastisol, right? Depending on how hard you pull, yes, usually. When it's cured and fused together, it should act like a thin film of plastic that has a little give.
Title: Re: Pull Test
Post by: screenxpress on April 21, 2022, 09:26:33 PM
Depending on how hard you pull

Pull hard enough and it will surly crack/split.  Wish I could give something to reference by. 

Wash test will give a definite answer.
Title: Re: Pull Test
Post by: Northland on April 22, 2022, 12:12:00 AM
Here’s a YouTube visual from Lawson, showing a stretch test


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmDjRnrO-Jw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmDjRnrO-Jw)[/url]
Title: Re: Pull Test
Post by: farmboygraphics on April 22, 2022, 06:45:00 AM
Thinner deposits will always crack (my opinion) if stretched enough. 
Title: Re: Pull Test
Post by: 3Deep on April 22, 2022, 04:36:02 PM
I know this is a smart azz remark to say, but who's going to go around pulling on the print of there shirts  ;D
Title: Re: Pull Test
Post by: Frog on April 22, 2022, 04:54:28 PM
I know this is a smart azz remark to say, but who's going to go around pulling on the print of there shirts  ;D

Printers who are unsure of the ink being fully cured!
Title: Re: Pull Test
Post by: farmboygraphics on April 25, 2022, 09:16:09 AM
I know this is a smart azz remark to say, but who's going to go around pulling on the print of there shirts  ;D

I do it when I'm out at the mall, it's surprising how many times I've come across under cured prints.
Title: Re: Pull Test
Post by: 3Deep on April 25, 2022, 09:58:33 AM
I know this is a smart azz remark to say, but who's going to go around pulling on the print of there shirts  ;D

I do it when I'm out at the mall, it's surprising how many times I've come across under cured prints.

Let me add that I forgot to say what customer will be pulling on a print, unless they have an inside track LOL