50/50

[BeerCityInc]

so i ran this job with an athletic gold, half on 100 cotton and half on 50/50. The ones on the cotton turned out great but the color on the 50/50 turned out like a burn mustard color. Any ideas? cure temp on the oven to high, should it be down on a 50/50? any suggestions would be killer, thanks

[Frog]

Almost certainly a case of dye migration.  You didn't say what color the shirts were, but did you run a low bleed ink on the 50/50? and did you carefully monitor the temp if so?

[Printhouse]

I just did a similar tun.  Golden yellow on royal blue cotton and then 50/50's.  Without an underbase the yellow was like a baby poop brown on the 50/50's.... even with poly ink.  The underbase of poly white cured it.  Man were they ugly!

[BeerCityInc]

thats funny mine were on a royal blue also, i did a hit flash hit so i could get the yellow to pop. Almost sure it wasnt a low bleed and didnt monitor temp at all, seemed like it was all good til a  couple days later when the customer was like why are these yellows different. boo me

[sportsshoppe]

I always speed up belt on dryer on them 50/50's. They are nightmares.... Don't want to go over 320 degrees

[mk162]

You can also put an extra coat of ink down and that usually solves it with 50/50's.  The main beast is the temp, 50/50's will get hotter than a 100% cotton because they are lighter weight and the heat goes through them so fast.

[BeerCityInc]

Christ i think I had mine cranked up to like 900 hahah good thing it was a friend of mine and ill give him a deal his next order. They didnt look bad but the 100% cotton ones looked so good you could tell a slight difference.

On another note, about to do a job on a yellow. Its a black and red on a 100% cotton will i have a problem with the red looking orange? if so what should i do to stop it. I love this forum

[Fresh Baked Printing]

Black and Red on a Gold shirt should be just fine.

[Frog]

On another note, about to do a job on a yellow. Its a black and red on a 100% cotton will i have a problem with the red looking orange? if so what should i do to stop it. I love this forum

I'd have to say that it would depend on the opacity of the ink. I do often run a different mix on white than I would on ash or some light colors. With plastisol, soft hand sometimes must give up some ground to good coverage.

[ZooCity]

Frog speaks wisdom.  Many of us here have full opacity and then extended or soft hand mixes for common spot colors.  It's definitely one of my preferred methods of ink wrangling.

What you don't want to be doing is print-flash-printing or underbasing your red on a cotton T, that would be just plain silly. 

[BeerCityInc]

excellent at least on the right track somewhat.