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| TRUpah |
 Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 10:15 am |
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whats up all...... i went ahed last night and fucked up a run of black shirts last night while trying to get some white printed on em....(gotta love the learning process)
i was running 125 with unano qtx
pulled some union lo bleed white through it
flat edge squeege
going on 100% cotton shirts
could not get a good coat for the life of me?
squeege pressure?
mabye i should have used my round edge squeege?
off contact increase decrease?
any takers? |
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| newrepublicsteve |
| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 11:58 am |
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| did you flash and make a second pass? |
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| TRUpah |
| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 12:16 pm |
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| newrepublicsteve |
| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 12:43 pm |
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there are tales of those who can print hundreds of black shirts an hour on a manual press with jsut one pass of white...
the rest of us mortals print flash print...
give it a try you'll like it much better |
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| TRUpah |
| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 1:03 pm |
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| Stranglehold77 |
| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 2:12 pm |
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defstarsteve wrote: there are tales of those who can print hundreds of black shirts an hour on a manual press with jsut one pass of white...
the rest of us mortals print flash print...
give it a try you'll like it much better
yep, we've all heard the fish tales, but in 15 years I've yet to see it actually happen with my own eyes. Flash is the way to go. |
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| Fool's Gold |
| Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 2:30 pm |
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| modify your ink using soft hand reducer or a curable reducer (PLUS-9000 from union ink) so that it flows through the mesh. If you have to really muscle it through that mesh count then you need to reduce. That coupled with a print/flash/print and you will be fine. We print white ink through 200 and sometimes 230, works great, you use less ink, and get more detail and the print is thinner |
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| Damote Skate |
| Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 2:03 pm |
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| For those of you who run a conveyer how do you get your registration back or do you have one of those overhead swivel ones |
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| Fool's Gold |
| Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 2:53 pm |
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| Both, we have a conveyor and a flash unit on a stand. We use the flash to gel the ink (so it's dry to the touch but not cured) and then lay down the second pass of ink. Then it comes off the press and onto the conveyor dryer. |
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| ThrashCan |
| Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 3:15 pm |
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| can you fully cure with a flash dryer? |
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