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screen printing => Ink and Chemicals => Topic started by: squeegee on May 20, 2011, 06:26:11 AM

Title: Ink suitable for printing Tyvek?
Post by: squeegee on May 20, 2011, 06:26:11 AM

I have a run of about 700 Tyvek "marathon" jackets and need an ink (just black) for them.  This material is the stuff that painter's wear like in a paint booth, basically it's like the white overall suits that are used once and then thrown away.

I think the material has a melting point of around 250F so plastisol is out of the question.

TIA

Title: Re: Ink suitable for printing Tyvek?
Post by: Clark on May 20, 2011, 07:00:37 AM

I printed thousands of tyvek windsocks with good ol Nazdar Air-Dry Solvent ink.  Held up for years.

Title: Re: Ink suitable for printing Tyvek?
Post by: Fresh Baked Printing on May 20, 2011, 08:19:25 AM

Quote from: Clark on May 20, 2011, 07:00:37 AM

I printed thousands of tyvek windsocks with good ol Nazdar Air-Dry Solvent ink.  Held up for years.

How fast does it dry? Can you print and stack?

Title: Re: Ink suitable for printing Tyvek?
Post by: Clark on May 20, 2011, 08:41:07 AM

depends on the amount of ink you are depositing, but I just ran mine through the conveyor at room temp and when they got to the other side, we stacked.

Title: Re: Ink suitable for printing Tyvek?
Post by: squeegee on May 20, 2011, 09:18:37 AM

Do you happen to know the number or name of the ink series you used?

Title: Re: Ink suitable for printing Tyvek?
Post by: Frog on May 20, 2011, 09:19:20 AM

The substrate chart (http://www.nazdar.com/Nazdar_Ink_Chart.pdf)from Nazdar shows a few suitable inks.

The 9700 (http://www.nazdar.com/pdf/9700_TDS_LF_Rev_8_120110.pdf)is a good stand-by, is that the one you use Clark?

Title: Re: Ink suitable for printing Tyvek?
Post by: Sbrem on May 20, 2011, 09:34:28 AM

We like the NazDar 9500 series for that, we used to print election signs with it, and it's a good multi-purpose air dry ink.

Steve

Title: Re: Ink suitable for printing Tyvek?
Post by: Clark on May 20, 2011, 09:54:52 AM

I can't recall which series we used...sorry it's been a few years and I've been around alot of discharge ink since then.

Title: Re: Ink suitable for printing Tyvek?
Post by: squeegee on May 20, 2011, 02:59:16 PM

Thanks guys.  I had some old 9700 Nazdar black and it works like a charm.