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Offline ericheartsu

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what inks would you use (poly/nylon/spandex materials)
« on: March 24, 2015, 03:00:47 PM »
I Have a client wanting to do heat transfered neck labels on some garments they are custom manufacturing:
90%rayon 10% spandex and another is 87%nylon 13%spandex

Low cure ink work best? Doing direct print with silicone?
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Re: what inks would you use (poly/nylon/spandex materials)
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2015, 04:54:20 PM »
my understanding is the silicone does not stick to nylon as well. you might have to test that.

when we run into stuff like that, I call One Stroke. They bailed us out of trouble with stuff like that before and I don't even bother with anything else any more. OS has inks formulated for specific blends of thous crazy fabrics!

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Re: what inks would you use (poly/nylon/spandex materials)
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2015, 05:51:44 PM »
thanks pierre!
I had no idea they made transfer inks at one stroke ink. they got it all fixed up for us!
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