hi
I printed for the first time just he other day using waterbased ink on a fruit of the loom t-shirt
My first print went so well I was quite amazed! but then the next 3 i did got progressively worse. Ink started to come through the screen in various places as if the emulsion on the screen was progressively breaking up and getting weaker as I ran the squeegee over it.
I left the t-shirts to dry just air drying overnight. I washed one of the t-shirts a few days later after wearing it, and the image has almost entirely washed out ? Is this because I need to dry the print image prperly when freshly printed or/and do I need to add something to my ink? or does one use the ink straight out of the pot?
Thanks for reading
bod
print nearly disapeared in wash + other probs
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It's hard to really understand what the cause of the problem might be without details. Water-based inks can be very different from one brand to the next and/or one type to the next.
Were you using water-based textile inks? Water-based air-dry inks? Many water-based textile inks need to be heat cured similar to plastisol inks. This requires heating the ink to a particular tempature for a set length of time.
Heat + Time = wash-fastness
Were you using water-based textile inks? Water-based air-dry inks? Many water-based textile inks need to be heat cured similar to plastisol inks. This requires heating the ink to a particular tempature for a set length of time.
Heat + Time = wash-fastness
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