Comments on: Water based T shirt Printing part 3

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:57:03 +0000

We now print 6 colours wet on wet with no problems. As we have opted for discharge printing over opaque water based inks as the way forward for us. For none dischargeable colours we have reverted to plastisol inks, using a combination of Wilflex Epic and Grafco which are both phthalates free.

By: digital asset management

digital asset management — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:46:37 +0000

Having read the post and comments I’m curious if you were indeed able to eliminate some of the flash curing between colors?

We use Wilflex PC, Epic, QuantumOne and Oasis.

S.Johnson

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:20:47 +0000

Thanks Willy this is really useful info. We use 61T and 77T meshes with Grafco clear bases, but the opaque requires at least a 55T and flashing between colours, but we hope we can eliminate some of the flash curing with practice.

By: Willy

Willy — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:51:06 +0000

I am not 100% sure there is a phthalate ban over children printing in europe. I know there it is ban for children under 3 years. I know there is a ban from CPSIA since february in US for children wear under 12, which is a good point. In my shop we are 100% phthalate free since the beginning, and are going to switch to wilflex PC epic because of the special effects you can have. We use a lot wilflex hybrid discharge NF as well. I am happy to read that you can print wet on wet with grafco ink. I mostly use N205 thread on light with the brand of waterbase ink I use today. I will see if I have to change with grafco ! THks Willy´s last blog post..Landais

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 02 May 2009 09:44:09 +0000

Hi Willy, print shops are not banned from using any kind of ink in Europe, but for printing on childrens clothing I think this might be the case. I was also lead to believe in some European countries (Italy??) ink manufacture has to meet standards which are not in place in the States or the UK. I will try to find out more and clarify this in another post or change the information here if it is incorrect.
We like Grafcos Newtex products, both the opaque and clear bases, the opaque water based inks have been difficult to get to grips with but the print quality is superb. We discharge with wilflex NF which can be used wet on wet. Thanks for your comments.

By: Willy

Willy — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:46:42 +0000

Hi,

Just to correct you, I do own a screenprinting shop in FRANCE and phthalates is absolutely not banned in France.
Even plastisol ink follow the EN71/3 standard.

I know and speak with some other screenprinting shop in France, and I can say that the majority use plastisol with phtalates. Most of them have never or don’t want to use water based ink because it is more pain in production.

In my shop half the production in waterbased ink, from KFG, also italian, but I bought a newtex starting kit last week just to see the difference.

I found a great deal of informations on this website, thank you !

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