Everyone, question for you.. we are printing an increased amount of "cotton feel" shirts that are actually 100% poly. They have a texture and feel as if they were a cotton shirt (even have some fibrillation), but again, 100% poly. When we print on these we're using a barrier grey underbase as I don't trust these garments regarding dye sublimation. We then print a poly white over the barrier and topcoat colors over that if need be.
My question is this: do other people do the same (using the barrier grey)? I ask because for us the barrier grey ink prints really poorly on these shirts. It's extremely hard to get a nice smooth print and as a result is causing issues with the print quality. Wondering about tips for the base layer. We already add some poly white to our barrier grey to make it more printable, so I don't want to mix more poly white into it to make it easier to print, as I don't want to take away its blocking capabilities.