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screen printing => Equipment => Topic started by: GaryG on July 22, 2013, 06:16:29 PM

Title: Calling all MD-8 'ers
Post by: GaryG on July 22, 2013, 06:16:29 PM

Hey MD-8 'ers,

Since plenty of users:

What settings are you using?
Plastisol 350 @ speed 10

Thanks!

Title: Re: Calling all MD-8 'ers
Post by: blue moon on July 23, 2013, 08:12:51 AM

plastisol:
360 at 25

discharge
410 at 10

DC underbase
360 at 10

pierre

Title: Re: Calling all MD-8 'ers
Post by: GaryG on July 30, 2013, 11:37:57 AM

mk162, ScreenPrinter123, others?

Title: Re: Calling all MD-8 'ers
Post by: ScreenPrinter123 on July 30, 2013, 12:32:39 PM

Quote from: GaryG on July 30, 2013, 11:37:57 AM

mk162, ScreenPrinter123, others?

12 ft. of heat and 60" belt we run:

Plastisol: 370F at 25
Discharge: 380 at 15

That covers the majority of what we do but we obviously make adjustments for blends, 100% polys, nylon, etc.  We could run plastisol faster but since it does not cause a bottleneck we are playing it safe.  Discharge we are still tweaking as we used to run it 370F at 20 with decent results but are slowing the belt down and increasing the temp to see if there is any difference in wast fastness after multiple washes.

Title: Re: Calling all MD-8 'ers
Post by: mk162 on July 30, 2013, 12:40:27 PM

I am running a 48" belt, so I run mine a little hotter and faster because I have less real estate to place shirts.

425 at 60 or 50(depends on the humidity) sometimes it's so humid here my shirts literally feel wet right off the UPS truck.