"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
*crickets*
slow down the dryer! Use the temp gun as it should be pretty close. try not to go over 350!pierre
Maybe the labels are beyond their expiration date, I think 2 years is the max. Also the are to be stored in a cool dry place, preferably refrigerated.
Quote from: Gilligan on December 04, 2014, 05:15:58 PM*crickets*These fry nicely well below 350.
The temp strips have more thermal mass than your t shirt material. They heat up at a different rate. The infrared temp gun also measures over a small area rather than just under that laser dot. So, unless you are aiming at a larger printed area with a relatively thick ink deposit the temp strip nor the infrared gun are a true indicator of ink layer temp and the test strip is definitely not going to indicate the shirt material temp (which will be higher than the test strip). I'm generally printing thin layers of ink and a lot of the designs don't have large printed areas to shoot at, so I'm essentially monitoring the shirt material temp and inferring what the ink layer temp is. Printing poly sucks when you have to go as low in temp as you can. Slowing down your dryer and lowering the panel temp helps because the rate of change is slower and it gives you more latitude. It's easier to hit a sweet spot in temp and time but at a production cost. I personally don't know how to set my dryer at it's lowest cure temp without wash testing.
I think it maxes out at 7.x" of height... I know it doesn't go much higher... maybe 8.x".I can turn down the temps for sure, will probably save me some money.