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OK a while back I inquired about help printing waterproof ponchos. I took advice and purchase a test size amount of the DA series and catalyst.On the first test I used our old balance based system for measuring just an old scale with weights in different increments of grams, not greatly accurate at all. Printed twelve test ponchos and tried twelve different ways to cure, all failed not one is cured all are still sticky ugh.So Friday I purchased a much more accurate digital scale capable to .5g.. mixed up some DA again and printed six more. Came in today to see how they are and just as wet as when they were first printed, no curing what so ever!WTF! I hear about this ink from others and there must be something I am missing, what is the process for others that have used this ink successfully?We have an initial order for 3,000 of these high end ponchos with reorders periodically. I do not want to here from the masses we should sub out, understand we are a full print shop and wish to know how to print things like this successfully. We have several months before the first order is due so if no solution is figured out by then we will sub out but seriously we need to be able to do this our selves especially with reorders following. According to Charles River they use the same inks and do not seem to have the issue as us. I doubt the ink is a dud it stinks plenty of solvent which tells me the active ingredients are still there.
Quote from: Inkman996 on May 27, 2012, 11:44:40 AMOK a while back I inquired about help printing waterproof ponchos. I took advice and purchase a test size amount of the DA series and catalyst.On the first test I used our old balance based system for measuring just an old scale with weights in different increments of grams, not greatly accurate at all. Printed twelve test ponchos and tried twelve different ways to cure, all failed not one is cured all are still sticky ugh.So Friday I purchased a much more accurate digital scale capable to .5g.. mixed up some DA again and printed six more. Came in today to see how they are and just as wet as when they were first printed, no curing what so ever!WTF! I hear about this ink from others and there must be something I am missing, what is the process for others that have used this ink successfully?We have an initial order for 3,000 of these high end ponchos with reorders periodically. I do not want to here from the masses we should sub out, understand we are a full print shop and wish to know how to print things like this successfully. We have several months before the first order is due so if no solution is figured out by then we will sub out but seriously we need to be able to do this our selves especially with reorders following. According to Charles River they use the same inks and do not seem to have the issue as us. I doubt the ink is a dud it stinks plenty of solvent which tells me the active ingredients are still there.I apologize for the difficulties you've been having with our DA Series Screen Ink. Based on your posts it sounds like the ink is properly catalyzed. What material is the poncho made of?