Shirt sticking to screen then moving - help

gilbertthegreat · Post by **gilbertthegreat** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:48 pm

OK - I haven't got any ink plopping over the open image, but it is as if there is a vacuum between the ink on the shirt and in the screen, so that when I lift the screen up, the shirt is peeling off it instead of staying on the platten. Can this have something to do with the thickness/viscosity of the ink? It's a supercover ink that has more pigment and is designed for cover ing dark fabric.

Off contact is about 1/8 inch.

Other thing is that I don't have a flash unit, and this problem is occuring before I even got a heatgun near the plattern, so it's not a heat thing in this case.

Also, this problem occured the very first shirt I did - so there wasn't an ink build up problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Shaun

Post by **d fleming** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:26 am

Are you using any adhesive to stick the shirt to the platen?

gilbertthegreat · Post by **gilbertthegreat** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:31 am

Yes - the spray on kind.

The suction of the ink on th e screen was pretty strong.

Cheers

Shaun

ftembroidery · Post by **ftembroidery** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:47 am

Shaun,

When you print the shirt, try this. Put the ink on the end of the screen that is away from you. "Flood" the screen by PULLING the squeegie toward you with VERY LITTLE pressure so that you've created a thick layer of ink over the entire surface of the stencil (maybe about as thick as you would spread mayonaise on a sandwich). Then while holding the squeegie at about 45-60Âº PUSH it away from you shearing the ink off onto the shirt. Do this by pushing the entire length of the stencil area. Then LIFT the squeegie off the stencil and PLACE it back down on the screen near you and PUSH it AGAIN the entire length of the stencil (this time WITHOUT "flooding" the stencil). Do this without lifting the screen off the shirt until you can see that all the ink has been sheared off the stencil and onto the shirt. It is not uncommon for this "dry stroke" to be done once or twice after the initial flood & print stroke.

gilbertthegreat · Post by **gilbertthegreat** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:45 am

That's a good tip - I will try it tomorrow - makes really good sense!

Cheers

Shaun

gilbertthegreat · Post by **gilbertthegreat** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:04 am

Yeah - that worked a lot better - cheers.

I also sprayed more adhesive down, but ended up with the glue staying stuck on the shirt - not a good look.

Any remedies?

Ta

Shaun

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:44 pm

The adhesive should wash out of the shirt completely.