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screen printing => Waterbase and Discharge => Topic started by: T Shirt Farmer on August 11, 2013, 06:14:08 PM
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A lot of post here regarding "The best White DC ink" or will this color shirt take DC well? I often wonder what criteria these assessments are made on and most important to me is how the colors look after washing especially white. I have printed some various colored shirts with White DC that looked great coming off the press but left a good deal to be desired after washing. So how and when do you all judge your DC prints?
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to many variables to judge which is BEST, but IMO, from my tests, on shirts I know discharge well, Magna SUper White zf takes the cake.
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Any discharge white is going to soften up after washing, both in hand and blazing whiteness. The better the
penetration the whiter the white after the wash. I've got a number of discharge white shirts that are years old
and still acceptably white, especially considering that any significant coverage of white plastisol would have likely
started cracking and chipping by now, not to mention the whole comfort factor.
A lot will have to do with the garments as well. White has enough pigment off the belt to cover
up any less than stellar discharging , IE overdyes.