Time to experiment

[kirkage]

I need to play around with a white discharge underbase. The plan is to discharge and then print a high mesh plastisol design on top. No halftones or anything. I like the thin 100 percent cotton shirts that I get from alpha( anvil tear away tags). What brand should I experiment with that will discharge well? I assume that the plastisol will not have a problem with the discharge underbase. Is this a bad assumption?

[StuJohnston]

Pretty sure that I read someone else trying this and they had a bad time. White discharge requires a pretty heavy pigment load and often some will flake off. I think that union has a white plasticharge that they say will work for underbasing though.

[jvanick]

I've used discharge base (no pigments) with great success on highly dischargeable fabrics.

I believe the answers posted before were to use a 20% discharge white to discharge base mix for a bright(er) white discharge....

I'll be trying this soon, so I'm interested in hearing the results.

(now if we could just stop printing triblends, performance shirts and other 50/50 blends I'd be a happy camper).

[kirkage]

the market wants all these soft hand prints as polyester is taking over. It is a conflict for the average small guy.

[tonypep]

A lot of blends and even some blends work fine. There are workarounds

[Sbrem]

That's what we've been doing of late, until we have more time to practice. But, we're printing a normal white discharge, giving it a quick flash, the plastisols right on top, great luck so far. Try it, and see what happens, go from there.

Steve

[Prosperi-Tees]

I printed some white discharge with plastisols on top last year for a club and all the shirts look like crapola now

[cleveprint]

yes, i ate a lot of shirts experimenting with this. posted the results here.

http://www.theshirtboard.com/index.php/topic,10613.msg101886.html#msg101886

[tonypep]

Straight DC color is far better and easier once you make up a color library

[kirkage]

after reading the thread, it looks like I am barking up the wrong tree by trying to use DC as an underbase to plastisol

[tonypep]

Not necessarily. We only use it as part of the toolbox where color is extremely pick and we might not have them in our DC library. Heres a DC UB from way back with plas on top.

[Orion]

Don't discount using DC as an underbase, at least not without some testing. We began to run a lot of 70/30 DC white/base last summer with some great results. We have even run the ratio of 50/50 white/base with success.

[Orion]

Nice print Tony!

[StuJohnston]

Straight DC color is far better and easier once you make up a color library

I guess one screen that has discharge might be easier to handle, but in for a penny, in for a pound imo.

[Homer]

you may want to try out this stuff:
http://www.ccidom.com/products.php?product=U%252dBASE-WHITE-UNDER%252dBASE-DISCHARGE-INK

from what I've read on here, it works well with plastisol on top.

We always use the 70/30 like these guys have said -base to white, Plastisol on top works well in that case..... Straight D white as a base with Plastisol on top is a no-go, from my testing...and failure...however, my cci rep had a few samples that were D-white, plastisol on top and they looked great, probably from Pierre's shop