Here are some tests on a range of maroon colored polyester shirts. This is the test explained earlier, a drop of plasticizer and then a white fabric heated to 320 degrees F for 30 seconds. The nine shirts are a spectrum of results. Even shirts that don’t have much of a dye migration problem do…
As outlined in the earlier posts, you can heat up the polyester garment in question with a heat press and a drop of plasticizer will cause some dye to transfer to a piece of white jersey. Pretty much all fabric will transfer some of the dye, but it is a matter of degree. The more testing…
Printing on Poly, real world shirt issue: 1. On left: plasticizer test, 320 degrees for 30 seconds heat transferred to white square. That’s quite a bit of dye on the white. If we had done that test before printing a sample we would have saved ourselves some grief later. 2. On the bottom is our…
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Ok, you have a shirt and it has some or all polyester content, what do you do? Too many printers I see P & P it. “P & P” is what I call “print and pray” and no matter what religion you do or don’t follow, I would keep prayer out of your printing operation.…
Sometimes you can do a great job and everything is perfect and it all may not be a mis-print but it may result in a “mis-fire.” Twice we set up to reproduce Richard Avedon photos of Marilyn Monroe on a black shirt. Both times we did some of our best work we have ever done…
A great time was had by one and all at the first ever Ink Kitchen Honky Tonk Hoedown held at Layla’s on Broadway in Nashville on the opening day of the first ever ISS Nashville show. Thanks to all our sponsors, attendees, Layla, the U-Twang Clan and our awesome guest dancers, we had a whole…
Normalmente se ha de lavar para ver si la tinta destiñe. Consiga una lavadora y una secadora para tu trabajo o llévate las camisas a casa. Esta es la única manera de saber si la tinta se ha curado. Puedes usar todo tipo de sondas de calor y dispositivos para hacer pruebas con la temperatura…
I figured I should post about single head embroidery machines with a laser since one of the cheapest dudes I have ever met in the industry has just purchased one. I’m sure Hirsch/Tajima can give you the numbers to run yourself, but I”m telling you that this guy I know would not be getting one…
Our friends at Action Engineering never seem to stop innovating…
