printing pom pom shirts next week

[Prints Charming]

I just got platens in today so we can print large across the shoulders for the pom pom / billboard shirts for a client. Image size is 9 in tall and 24 in across. Any tips or suggestions on this. They are Hollaway spirit shirts ,white ink on a workhorse Sabre auto. Thanks in advance.

[jvanick]

on the auto, you'd probably want to put your 23x31 screens in 'landscape' orientation, buy a set of longer floodbars and squeegees, and buy a set of billboard style platens.

plus, you'll likely have problems flashing such a long print, unless you had 2 flash cures and could set them on different heads in a X type configuration to hit both sides of the print.

we ran some of these on the manual a few months back... only bought 1 platen, charged enough where it made it (somewhat) worth our time... had to flash twice per time (once on each half of the print)...  total pita.


or, you could make multi-part

[Prince Art]

And if flashing is going to be a problem, can you do it without? Not my preferred way for big ink deposits (due to finish), but with the right ink & mesh, it's do-able in many cases. (Assuming you meant this is a single-color, white print.)

[Prosperi-Tees]

Alot I have seen are puff ink

[scott316]

I know King Screen has printed some on a Workhorse Sabre. He is a member here and might be able to help you.

[3Deep]

We've printed those on some custom made platen for our manual press work out pretty darn good if I say so myself, I thought I posted a pic of the pallet on here some where.

[Ross_S]

Puff ink is the trick or if you want to make it easy on your self get them to go with metalic silver or gold.  I use Wilflex liquid silver and gold for these and it's one hit no puff no additive.

[Prince Art]

Puff doesn't have to be all or nothing, either. Some of the whites we use have a touch of puff in them, which helps them thicken & get a little more opaque during cure, but doesn't produce what people normally think of as a "puff print."

[DannyGruninger]

on the auto, you'd probably want to put your 23x31 screens in 'landscape' orientation, buy a set of longer floodbars and squeegees, and buy a set of billboard style platens.

plus, you'll likely have problems flashing such a long print, unless you had 2 flash cures and could set them on different heads in a X type configuration to hit both sides of the print.

we ran some of these on the manual a few months back... only bought 1 platen, charged enough where it made it (somewhat) worth our time... had to flash twice per time (once on each half of the print)...  total pita.






or, you could make multi-part

Sorry but I just had to LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4iEvAOcF2M

[kingscreen]

We have the Action Engineering Spirit platens. 
We run double index.  Print on 2, flash on 4.  86 mesh.  Thick stencil.  Puff ink.
The Flashback is not wide enough so we bought a BBC quartz and use our index dwell and table up time to control flash time.

edit:  As stated above, we use 23x31 screens and turn them sideways (landscape) with a 24" wide squeegee/floodbar set.

[jvanick]

on the auto, you'd probably want to put your 23x31 screens in 'landscape' orientation, buy a set of longer floodbars and squeegees, and buy a set of billboard style platens.

plus, you'll likely have problems flashing such a long print, unless you had 2 flash cures and could set them on different heads in a X type configuration to hit both sides of the print.

we ran some of these on the manual a few months back... only bought 1 platen, charged enough where it made it (somewhat) worth our time... had to flash twice per time (once on each half of the print)...  total pita.






or, you could make multi-part

Sorry but I just had to LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4iEvAOcF2M

Gotta hand it to you, that *IS* a cool feature.

[Prints Charming]

Thanks for the tips,Scott I didn't think about flash.Looks like I will need to modify my extra old flash to spin sideways.Thanks again to all.

[Prints Charming]

These are holloway shirts.50 poly 37 cotton 13 rayon.which ink would work best?

[chuckielb]

50/50 white i do these all day

[Prints Charming]

We finished these last week. A few notes  that helped, used a 86 mesh count sideways.Also added a nickle under the front side of screen to help the peeling action get started,and we used a roller screengee and teflon screen to smooth out the print.Used a quick flash white from Rivercity graphics supply that didn't have a blowing agent in it.We did not use any puff.Print very smooth all the way across.Also used a laser line up from Laze-it for placement.