Another how to print

[inkman996]

I have never heard of black burning a hole through the shirt, if anything it will probably take longer to gel the white than black since white reflects radiation.

[Gilligan]

I've done one color black on these before and sent them down the dryer like everything else without any issues.

[jason-23]

I've done two and three color jobs on dry fit and one had an underbase, no issues and print like butter.

[mk162]

i really like the way poly prints, it just tends to shift more, so use a little extra tack

[jasonl]

they print great, I have no problems, but my quartz is WAY hotter than my dryer, thats why I dont flash black ink.  Only black for some reason will smoke up my entire shop.  No problems with the dyer at all.  I had the same problem at another shop I worked at.  So I just dont do it.

[inkman996]

Not sure of your flash but on our we lower the intensity and increase the height a bit other than that Poly shirts are the nicest looking prints we can get i love them. Just need to be very careful with the tack situation they will shrink a bit from the flash hence why i prefer gutters which compensate a lot of times with the shrinkage.

[Gabe]

how about using one of those AIR FLASHES would it fix all the problems
mention a above
i wish i had one

[Gilligan]

You mean a flash with air?

I got that... Antec's top flash with auto base... I love it.

[Ripcord]

The reason I would flash the black is to get a cleaner line where the white traps to it. I would only set the job up this way if it was a relatively short press run.

With a small amount of trap, you can register the job in no time, and then flashing all the colors keeps it looking crisp. The amount of time you save on the registration process makes up for the extra time for the extra flash (on a short press run).

The cure temperature for ink is about 100 degrees hotter than the flash temp. If flashing causes it to burn a hole in the shirt, it's really going to burn in the dryer. I've never seen this happen with any kind of fabric... 

As someone pointed out though, printing black directly on polyester might look a little funky next to the opaque white. Might look nicer to overprint it in this case.