Ink on Koozies

[Leadfoot]

Thanks for posting this...I am actually going to be experimenting on some black koozies myself soon..

It was suggested to me to add a little puff additive to the ink to make it pop up off the koozie.

[BoydRiver]

I was going to ask if you all were buying neoprene sheet, printing and then machining it somehow into a koozie, but I see in one of Craigs Photos that they are already machined and flat packed.
When the printing is finished are they ready for sale like that or or is some gluing required to make the "roundness" of the item stronger please?

[upperhandprinting]

Boyd,
You're right, it's the type of koozie I purchased. These ones are foldable. Room in my bands trailer is slim, do we can carry a lot more of these than the hard round koozies. All you have to do with these is get them and print and you're done.

I thought about trying puff, but I think it depends a lot in the design. With mine, it has those "holes" in it. I didn't want them to get filled in when the puff expanded. If you had a nice solid image it could be cool. Although it actually stands off the koozie quite a bit just with plain ink. Lots of texture. Could have been my off contact of thick stencil, but when the print was good, the print felt good too.

[ApeShirt]

Just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents here. I recently printed my first koozies. I used plastisol ink and used little squeegee pressure. They turned out pretty good I think. I posted on another thread about this but just noticed this thread. Here's a pic.
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[BoydRiver]

Fantastic.
I am in the UK so I'm still looking for a UK supplier, I tried ebay and they are sold and shipped .......................from the states

[Catspit Productions]

This is interesting, why would there be bleed please Jonathan and how do you combat it?

Many koozies have synthetic coverings which may contain polyester or other sublimated colored fabrics. Using a polyester ink or a “low bleed” plastisol ink will prevent dye migration with lighter colored inks on darker colored koozies.

[Catspit Productions]

Fantastic.
I am in the UK so I'm still looking for a UK supplier, I tried ebay and they are sold and shipped .......................from the states

Try getting in touch with MacDermid Autotype. They are based in the UK and can help you solve printing problems as well as source supplies.

http://www.catspitproductionsllc.com/MacDermid.html

Make sure to tell them I sent you

[BoydRiver]

Cheers Johnathan,
I emailed them this morning, mentioned you and this thread.
Hopefully they will get back to me soon and I will let you know what they advised.

[Catspit Productions]

My pleasure. I hope they can help you out with whatever you need. They have been around a long time and should know where to get screen printing supplies where you are.

Let me know if they don't respond and I'll make sure some one does.

[ppdlao]

Nice explanations about Koozies, cool posts "UpperHandPrinting" !!!

Jon, reading at your post:

Be careful not to flood the screen too much before the stroke and maybe try printing without a flood by just taking the ink with the stroke.

I use to do that, not flooding, just taking the ink with the stroke when printing "halftoned" printings, because of my still poor flood & Stroke technique, if I do the flood and stroke method when printing very detailed "halftoned" images, usually the printing somehow "looses" it´s details, the detail "dots" start to look fussy or like "ink overloaded"... any coments? printing halftoned images?


thnks Jon, tnks guys