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For HSA we are double stroking 90% of the time..... The only time we aren't is if we are running 3 bases, doing sim process, or a dark ink on light garment like a tonal color. But for us here and most all the big shops I talk to running HSA are double stroke on everything. This is a reason we had to switch a lot of production back to plastisol as the speeds, downtime, cleanup, and cost of inks were frickin killing us here, like super killing us LOL
Quote from: DannyGruninger on June 12, 2017, 02:53:34 PMFor HSA we are double stroking 90% of the time..... The only time we aren't is if we are running 3 bases, doing sim process, or a dark ink on light garment like a tonal color. But for us here and most all the big shops I talk to running HSA are double stroke on everything. This is a reason we had to switch a lot of production back to plastisol as the speeds, downtime, cleanup, and cost of inks were frickin killing us here, like super killing us LOLVery true! We simply speed up the flood and stroke, HSA typically deposits nicely at fast carriage speeds, so that helps. I think the M&R series III presses have the high speed 2x stroke game cornered, haven't seen any other machine 2x stroke faster than those, it's impressive.Another option- we recently did a 10k ish run of DC ink using a squeegee in the flood position and double stroking using each stroke direction with the head down but that's not appropriate for all art as it can ghost a bit in either direction. Very nice option though. Stroke-flood-stroke in head down is another approach to up the run speed.Run speed has never been super high in our shop so I haven't stressed that too much. Setup with HSA is what can kill us more with our dry environment. Ironically my crew tends to run HSA way faster than plastisol for this reason, fear of dry in can motivate. We also get superior whites to plastisol, every time. You can train most anyone to get a great HSA white print whereas plastisol white printing, which I have never found difficult myself, is a big hurdle for many.
Going to try the M&R two direction "towel mode" soon as we have a huge program for custom made sweaters. And yes, for many, WB printing can be faster/more efficient. Sadly, we print a ton of pig dyed comfort colors so not always an option