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First time printing blend.....HELP

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Denis Kolar:
After convincing my customer to go with Charcoal color and 100% cotton shirt, they changed their mind again :(
They want to print on Dark Heather Gray, which is off-course, a 60/40 blend shirt.

Printing black and white on the shirts, white will be a low bleed ink.
Any pointers on printing blend shirts, except to watch on the temperature.

mk162:
You should be good, just keep an eye on temps.  But low bleed inks will handle that fine...I've also not had much problem with the dark heather gray.

Start your temps low and work higher.  It's better than the other way around.

Gilligan:
Obviously I'm no one to speak up on this (but when does that stop me)... but I'd think that color shirt seems fairly safe.

I managed to make it through some 50/50 navy's and came out ok... I'm sure you will be ok.

Fresh Baked Printing:
Print like 100% cotton. No need to use a low bleed ink.
I've always wondered why heather's and safety colors always have poly in them?

mk162:
easy...safety color because cotton tees cannot hold the pigments as well as the poly can.  Unless they are pigment dyed, which costs extra...the high vis dyes are made for poly, not cotton.

Heathered colors because the poly will not absorb the dyes as well as the cotton..thus making the shirts look heathered.

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