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General Screen Printing / Re: What are your "whoops"
« Last post by Frog on Yesterday at 05:11:26 PM »
Quote from: CBCB on February 06, 2026, 06:33:18 AM

We’d all have a lot more blessings if our industry was HONEST and left negative reviews instead of withholding them to be polite.


That was always my biggest gripe with the industry magazines. Being afraid to bite the hand that might feed them, they were always cheerleaders, and eschewed honest criticism.
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General Screen Printing / Re:
« Last post by tonypep on Yesterday at 03:32:29 PM »
My biggest whoops was to get out the industry 20 ys ago before lts cool lost cool,
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Ink and Chemicals / Re: Quick White
« Last post by Admiral on February 06, 2026, 10:49:59 AM »
365F for 50 seconds should not be undercuring on a 12' Sprint 2000, that is surprising.  Was it a t-shirt? Hoodie?

We run 380F for less time.  We do have a fleece setting too though...
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Ink and Chemicals / Re: Quick White
« Last post by CBCB on February 06, 2026, 08:42:48 AM »
You could be over flashing it on press, too. I had lots of dye migration issues from over heating with the flash.
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General Screen Printing / Re: What are your "whoops"
« Last post by CBCB on February 06, 2026, 06:46:29 AM »
Quote from: Dottonedan on July 28, 2025, 12:55:17 AM
As you know, we have been some different times of industry shifts. This most recent one we are seeing is apparently the phase of COVID people getting checks and using them to start a shop and now phasing out (selling their equipment). Still as always, a revolving door.
Best part is you can look them up.

https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/search?q=Night+owls+print&v=1

https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/search?q=Shirt+kong&v=1

https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/search?q=Campus+ink&v=1

https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/search?q=Ryonet&v=1
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Equipment / Re: sorry for the disconnct but heres the rant
« Last post by CBCB on February 06, 2026, 06:37:58 AM »
Quote from: tonypep on January 26, 2026, 09:00:06 PM
i have attended/worked at many print shows since I was in my late twenties, Different times, I know however, there seems to a tendency to oversell products. Auto scoop coaters do not the time it takes to refill and by the way who cleans them and how much time that takes. Thats money. Presses claim 1200 pc per hour but pls if anyone who can verify this in an eight-hour day I would respectively retract this statement.

I started asking these questions and pissed off a ton of people. Really shows you which shops are just industry folks, and which ones are actually trying to build a decoration business.
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General Screen Printing / Re: What are your "whoops"
« Last post by CBCB on February 06, 2026, 06:33:18 AM »
Quote from: T Shirt Farmer on February 02, 2026, 12:54:00 PM
Tony, life sucks and then you die. You can count your blessings or count your problems the simple choice is yours.
We’d all have a lot more blessings if our industry was HONEST and left negative reviews instead of withholding them to be polite.

Friends don’t let friends buy Stampinators, for example.
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Ink and Chemicals / Re: Quick White
« Last post by Ragz13 on February 03, 2026, 03:19:09 PM »
Admiral, We have a Sprint 2000 dryer. The temperature fluxuates a little going down the dryer, but at 320-330 when it comes out.
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Ink and Chemicals / Re: Quick White
« Last post by Ragz13 on February 03, 2026, 03:16:56 PM »
mk162, Yes a donut probe. I took it up to 365 after I found out it was cracking. I was at 320 +/- a few.
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Ink and Chemicals / Re: Quick White
« Last post by Admiral on February 03, 2026, 01:16:36 PM »
What dryer do you have? any chance the entrance / exit are cool spots and so you are missing a good % of curing time at that temperature?
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