Printing Bandanas

[LuckyFlyinROUSH]

We've printed some crazy stuff....but my guys are against printing bandanas for some reason?

Any reasons I should stay clear of 22" cotton bandanas? Seem like it would be easier than printing shirts?

5-9 color print

[ericheartsu]

we hate printing them as well.

Usually the material is super thin, shrinks under the flash and in the dryer if you aren't careful, also printing up to those frayed corners/rimmed corners sucks.

[mimosatexas]

I've printed these plenty of times, though always one color or two colors with loose registration and also by hand.  I would assume if you are setup for a 22"x22" print and waterbased inks there would be no reason not to...am i missing something?  They are thin, but they are almost as quick as a shirt to line up and smooth out.  They do tend to curl a little on the edges in the dryer.

[Frog]

Thin poly blends can be more of a problem than cotton

[sqslabs]

We print these all the time, although we limit the print size to 16.5x16.5 as our biggest pallet is 17".  My bandana of choice is the Tan's Club Premium Lock Edge, which have never given me any dye migration issues. Inkwise, for white prints I used Matsui 301W for years but recently switched to the Green Galaxy white waterbased.  Both inks offer a double hit, no flash, bright white but the GG is better in the screen.  For lights we'll use either standard waterbased or super reduced plastisol to keep the prints nice and soft.  I try to stick to one color prints, although we have done more in the past. 

Pic attached of a single color we did recently.

[Screened Gear]

I've only printed them a few times. They print as fast as shirts if not faster. That is as long as they are not creasted or have a ton of wrinkles. I have printed gold plastisol ink on maroon, black and white with no flash and just a double stroke. They looked great.  They are also easy to deal with. 500 of them fit in a tiny box and are easy to sort.

[Maxie]

We print a lot of them.
You need to make sure they are flat, we normally receive them folded and have to open them and flatten them as much as possible.
We can print shirts much faster then bandannas, they are thin and you have to lay them on the platter carefully.
Most of the time we only print one color.

[dirkdiggler]

printed thousands of them 8 color design, it sux beyond sucking, steer clear if you can.

[LuckyFlyinROUSH]

Sounds like I'll price high and hope we don't get it! Wish we had some more time to play with WB DC.

[cbjamel]

The last one I printed from sanmar was 50/50 migrated horribly , so I bought some top score pfp sweet. one color.
Shane

[sqslabs]

The last one I printed from sanmar was 50/50 migrated horribly , so I bought some top score pfp sweet. one color.
Shane

Sanmar bandanas are the worst.  Used them once in a pinch, never again.  Tan's Club Premium bandanas are cheaper and give no migration issues.

[Sbrem]

They have a learning curve; we always did them with waterbased, plastisol is just kind of gross for those (IMHO). You really need air in your dryer too.

Steve

[ol man]

discharge is the only way to print bandannas,,,

[ZooCity]

discharge is the only way to print bandannas,,,

here here!  Which ones discharge?  I've had no luck getting reactive dyed from any of our U.S. vendors but enough requests from clients to really want to find a source.

[ebscreen]

Bandanaman's will discharge.

The creases are what stop us from trying to push more of these.