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screen printing => Waterbase and Discharge => Topic started by: Prosperi-Tees on February 01, 2012, 01:26:48 PM
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Gildan has it as a B rating, meaning it is acceptable for discharge but has anyone done it and have good results?
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I've done it on a few occasions and haven't had great results but they weren't terrible either. Looked like a pretty good plastisol white without a print/flash/print, but obviously with the softer hand. Using Matsui Inks, I mixed in about 5% of the activator, wonder if adding more of the DFS would give better results?
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Large vector art may pink up on you. You can make a hybrid discharge white and base and use as a UB then a LB plastisol on top. Also the new HSA acrylics work very well for this application. You don't have to worry about dischargeability but get the soft hand high elasticity
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tony,what were the results overprinting hsa with plastisol?
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Just today we printed Red Anvil Organic and Gildan Ultra Cotton with Union White Discharge with very good results. I'm in the process of doing a wash test, looks great after the first cycle. Not an enormous print, just text, but big enough to notice if the color was off.
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So after three cycles the white has broken down slightly, not leaving the ink pink but definitely not as opaque as I had hoped.
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tony,what were the results overprinting hsa with plastisol?
Never got the chance to test this. Probably the next week or two.