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by ppdlao
Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:29 pm
Forum: Printing The Tee Shirts
Topic: Curing Issues
Replies: 10
Views: 3778

Re: Curing Issues

By the way Jon, you have told you started printing a long time ago with an uncle, the question is, did you always have a belt dryer and cure units as part of the shop hardware you were in?

thnks for asnwering!
by ppdlao
Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:25 pm
Forum: Printing The Tee Shirts
Topic: Curing Issues
Replies: 10
Views: 3778

Re: Curing Issues

Yes, indeed that kind of heat press like the one we have it´s like the common in the market, the cheapest :P jejeje and it came with the teflon sheet you talk about, but we realized that it´s ocurring when not giving the correct time, I mean we managed to give the curing process like 10 secs more it...
by ppdlao
Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:31 am
Forum: Printing The Tee Shirts
Topic: ink issues
Replies: 21
Views: 9702

Re: ink issues

Hi Jon! well the question I was telling you is the next: 1)What about printing wet on wet, first discharge white(which is water base) then another ink color (supossing it´s yellow plastisol) then black (plastisol like too) and then take out the t shirt off the palet, then put it into the heat press ...
by ppdlao
Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:58 am
Forum: Printing The Tee Shirts
Topic: ink issues
Replies: 21
Views: 9702

Re: ink issues

you´re right, discharge inks are water base inks and here we have temperatures like 33°C-43°C like 90% of the year, plus an humidity in the weather of 90% or more, so I quited aplying water based inks like on May of this year because I only achieved to print just the firt t shirt before the mesh got...
by ppdlao
Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:30 am
Forum: Printing The Tee Shirts
Topic: centering tees on press
Replies: 8
Views: 3389

Re: centering tees on press

Yeah I understand your point very well, I consider my self a perfectionist (in a rookie way 8-) ) too, I consider better replace that wrong print instead of lossing a client (all new clients by the way in my case).

Thanks for answering Jon!
by ppdlao
Fri Jul 20, 2012 4:06 pm
Forum: Reusing & Reclaiming Screens
Topic: Can I use Screens over And Over?
Replies: 11
Views: 76048

Re: Can I use Screens over And Over?

Ppdlao from México... I do it in the back yard of my house :P , I often get some meshes with ink haze before doing carefully all the reclaiming process, for example when cleanning 7 messhes in a day, almost 3 or 4 of them still have ink haze, and didn´t know why, I started to have doubts about the p...
by ppdlao
Fri Jul 20, 2012 2:56 pm
Forum: Printing The Tee Shirts
Topic: centering tees on press
Replies: 8
Views: 3389

Re: centering tees on press

Jon, what a professional like you will do if by mistake you print a t shirt and realize the job it´s not well centered? and assuming you´re not at ease with it, you let it pass and deliver it or do you replace it? (I could sound silly :geek: but It´s a common sittuation, mainly when printing a hundr...
by ppdlao
Fri Jul 20, 2012 2:37 pm
Forum: Printing The Tee Shirts
Topic: Curing Issues
Replies: 10
Views: 3778

Curing Issues

The best way to cure a t shirt is to use either a flash cure unit or a belt dryer in the process, but what about other options? Personally I´m using a heat gun (with 500°C) to flash and hit, and a heat press to get my job done, but I´m getting into trouble when flashing and hitting 3 times in order ...
by ppdlao
Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:22 am
Forum: Printing The Tee Shirts
Topic: ink issues
Replies: 21
Views: 9702

Re: ink issues

Jon thnks for everything you´ve been doing about the printing job teaching, I was able to learn this job 50% because of your videos, you´re the best, I just joined your forum at www.catspit... cause I had a problem yesterday printin 18 t shirts of the Flash Gordon Heroe logo in the chest of a red co...