Ink on Koozies

[BoydRiver]

They got back to me. CAnt help

[Catspit Productions]

They got back to me. CAnt help

What? Let me look into this. What did you ask them for specifically?

[Catspit Productions]

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

Yes, that would be called dot gain caused by either too much pressure on the flood and stroke or it can just happen over longer print runs from ink build up around the stencil edges. So on long print runs we might wipe the screens down every so often to keep the detail.

Printing halftones manually is a challenge and you need to figure out just the right flood and stroke while trying to be as consistent as possible throughout the print job.

[BoydRiver]

They got back to me. CAnt help

What? Let me look into this. What did you ask them for specifically?

I cut and paste the emails in a pm to buddy, with the relevant questions in bold.

[ApeShirt]

I like that tip about not flooding when printing koozies. I'm going to try that next time and compare prints closely. It'll probably be soon. When I do I'll let you know what I found.

[Catspit Productions]

Nice, yeah I found sometimes to keep detail if you have the right mesh and a decent ink you can just take some ink with the squeegee either way you stroke and print the design to maximize resolution.

Let us know if it works for you for sure.

[Leadfoot]

I got some koozies off eBay to try, can and bottle ones. The can koozies took the ink a lot better than the bottle ones did. I did not add anything to my ink (Excalibur Arctic White) and there was no bleeding on the can koozies. The bottle ones had a slight bleed but nothing major. I probably could have hit them one more time to put down another layer but didn't. The logo has so much detail I didn't want it to smudge or anything.

I used a 155 mesh screen and I was amazed at how little squeegee pressure I had to use.

[ppdlao]

I got some koozies off eBay to try, can and bottle ones. The can koozies took the ink a lot better than the bottle ones did. I did not add anything to my ink (Excalibur Arctic White) and there was no bleeding on the can koozies. The bottle ones had a slight bleed but nothing major. I probably could have hit them one more time to put down another layer but didn't. The logo has so much detail I didn't want it to smudge or anything.

I used a 155 mesh screen and I was amazed at how little squeegee pressure I had to use.

That job looks great! nice pic

[BoydRiver]

Great Job????? Fantastic Job

[ppdlao]

Great Job????? Fantastic Job

you´re damn right! it´s really a killer job!