You can ask about specialty inks in the Using Plastisol Inks section or the Using Water Based Inks section depending on the type of ink you are talking about.

Yes, it’s true plastisol inks need to be cured at 330 degrees F. And you can leave them on the screen for days and it will be fine. The longer you leave the ink on the screen the harder it will be to clean off. Here in the States we tend to use solvents designed for plastisol inks like press wash or...

ppdlao wrote:jejeje I know!!! I should and believe I´m exploring the CATSPIT Website, there´s as you said, tons of info, and tnks for the link, now it´s cristal!

Thnks buddy!

I'm glad that article helped out!

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 i...

Glow in the dark inks will be best as a plastisol ink formulation. They tend to be green or on the clear/gray-ish side when printed. The best way to print a glow in the dark plastisol ink is to put a white under base down first. I would not recommend mixing the white ink directly into the glow in th...

And I think my problem is probably the garments we use, but we haven´t find a best option nearby in town, we´re about to make our very first t shirts order 8-) the t shirts are JHK made in Spain, we found a seller here in México in a trip we made to the capital city, so we´ll see, I´ll let you know...

Thnks Jon! of course it helped, a lot!, when you say a "dull squeegee" you mean a wasted one? jejeje google traductor couldn´t find it out for me jajaja, and with this thing of fibrilation, what about, for ex. one time I printed a big silouhette of black ink on a white t shirt, I took a l...

Jon, really? we must use thinner to get water based inks to flow?... the thinner we use on home paintintg? I though I should use water, in Fact I´ve just used a discharge white ink I just bought like for a couple of months ago, and it seemed right but when adding the "salt" it turned thic...

staceybrown281 wrote:Plastisol Inks are commonly used for screen-printing on to textiles or even garment printing and it must be heated to dry. After using plastisol ink for several years, I haven't experienced some thing bad about it.

I would have to agree with you....

Once again I have to thank Saati for the awesome answers here. Here is an article about getting better detail with higher mesh counts: http://www.catspitproductionsllc.com/highmeshcounts.html And Saati makes a good point about higher mesh counts printing less ink. That can make it more difficult to ...