Retail Quality Plastisol Printing
Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 12:56 am
Hey Guys/Jonathan,
Been printing for a few years now, have a nice shop (all manual,) plenty of business/accounts and I feel like we've got the process down enough to put out some very decent work. The problem is that we have to go with discharge and water base inks for almost every single retail/resale order otherwise the prints are just too thick for customer liking. We use 200+ mesh for underbases and 230+ for color passes, soft hand additives, reducers...nothing seems to make it come close to the big store brands. I can walk through a surf/skate shop right now and pick out the brands that primarily use plastisol but the shirts actually feel like something that I would want to wear.
Is getting an auto press and rolling on 305-380 mesh the only thing left to do in order to get a nice plastisol print that could go on an American Apparel tee?
-Shaun
Been printing for a few years now, have a nice shop (all manual,) plenty of business/accounts and I feel like we've got the process down enough to put out some very decent work. The problem is that we have to go with discharge and water base inks for almost every single retail/resale order otherwise the prints are just too thick for customer liking. We use 200+ mesh for underbases and 230+ for color passes, soft hand additives, reducers...nothing seems to make it come close to the big store brands. I can walk through a surf/skate shop right now and pick out the brands that primarily use plastisol but the shirts actually feel like something that I would want to wear.
Is getting an auto press and rolling on 305-380 mesh the only thing left to do in order to get a nice plastisol print that could go on an American Apparel tee?
-Shaun