Curing Plastisol Inks In High Humidity Tips

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Curing Plastisol Inks In High Humidity Tips

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Here’s another #screenprinting video about curing #plastisol #inks in high humidity. This is basically an extension of the recent summer heat tips video. It’s a quick tips video since I thought taking this little tidbit out as a standalone video might help out many people with a mysterious curing problem during summertime. So this could be repetitive for all you attentive viewers as I have mentioned this in a few previous videos. Now I take the time to address humidity and curing plastisol inks alone. I hope you enjoy this short how to screen printing tutorial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_4Ge2cstrg
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Before I ask my question, I want to thank you for your youtube videos, they are very inspiring and increased my interest in screen print. Now the question :) Is it possible to cure plastisol ink with infrared heater? Something like this
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Can you please embed the image or upload the JPEG attachment?

I make it a habit on not clicking on links I don't need to ;)

But I'm happy to help out if I can.
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Hope it's good attachment now..
So, can plastisol ink be cured with this?
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Looks like a space heater. So if it cannot reach about 350 to 400 degrees F then no. It will not work well. Plastisol inks need to reach 330 degrees F or more for up to a minute or more depending on how much ink you're printing. The more ink you need the more heat and/or time you need.
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Ok. Thank you for your time and answer.
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My pleasure to help out where I can. Good luck!
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