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I personally avoid this issue by never printing white on red and red related poly or 50/50. I use cad-cut whenever I can (usually for teams, so the runs are short anyway)Otherwise, if I were you, I'd look at a poly specific white, or for colors, a gray underbase like Wilflex offers. You can also explore the pricey ultra low temp cure low bleed silicone inks that have just come on the market.Then, of course, there's the usual warnings of carefully monitoring temps.
Quote from: Frog on June 01, 2012, 12:37:44 PMI personally avoid this issue by never printing white on red and red related poly or 50/50. I use cad-cut whenever I can (usually for teams, so the runs are short anyway)Otherwise, if I were you, I'd look at a poly specific white, or for colors, a gray underbase like Wilflex offers. You can also explore the pricey ultra low temp cure low bleed silicone inks that have just come on the market.Then, of course, there's the usual warnings of carefully monitoring temps.Throw blue in your white to where it looks light a light sky blue and you will NEVER hav any bleeding. You will have to play alittle with the mix to perfect it.
Quote from: Frog on June 01, 2012, 12:37:44 PMI personally avoid this issue by never printing white on red and red related poly or 50/50. I use cad-cut whenever I can (usually for teams, so the runs are short anyway)Otherwise, if I were you, I'd look at a poly specific white, or for colors, a gray underbase like Wilflex offers. You can also explore the pricey ultra low temp cure low bleed silicone inks that have just come on the market.Then, of course, there's the usual warnings of carefully monitoring temps.Throw any blue in your white to where it looks like a light sky blue and you will NEVER have any bleeding. You will have to play alittle with the mix to perfect it.
Quote from: pushing ink on June 01, 2012, 01:32:17 PMQuote from: Frog on June 01, 2012, 12:37:44 PMI personally avoid this issue by never printing white on red and red related poly or 50/50. I use cad-cut whenever I can (usually for teams, so the runs are short anyway)Otherwise, if I were you, I'd look at a poly specific white, or for colors, a gray underbase like Wilflex offers. You can also explore the pricey ultra low temp cure low bleed silicone inks that have just come on the market.Then, of course, there's the usual warnings of carefully monitoring temps.Throw any blue in your white to where it looks like a light sky blue and you will NEVER have any bleeding. You will have to play alittle with the mix to perfect it."Never" is a pretty all-inclusive, limiting word to use with today's crappy and inconsistent offshore dye jobs we can see. Years ago, like twenty, I championed the blue trick (not dissimilar to the blueing agents used in white laundry) and still had a batch of red 50/50's bleed albeit more of a violet shade rather than pink. The fact that the bleeding took ten days helped me make my somewhat cowardly decision.I've been able to avoid them since
how's about some details. garment type, is it a 50/50, 100% poly?what brand?
Quote from: pushing ink on June 01, 2012, 01:32:17 PMQuote from: Frog on June 01, 2012, 12:37:44 PMI personally avoid this issue by never printing white on red and red related poly or 50/50. I use cad-cut whenever I can (usually for teams, so the runs are short anyway)Otherwise, if I were you, I'd look at a poly specific white, or for colors, a gray underbase like Wilflex offers. You can also explore the pricey ultra low temp cure low bleed silicone inks that have just come on the market.Then, of course, there's the usual warnings of carefully monitoring temps.Throw blue in your white to where it looks light a light sky blue and you will NEVER hav any bleeding. You will have to play alittle with the mix to perfect it.You can buy this already done if you get Wilflex Quick White. It has a slight tint to it to make it brighter. We have never had an issue using this on any of those colors. We do a lot of cardinal for a big university here in Southern California.
Ok so what your basically saying is that if we keep our ink cure temps just below 340* we have a better chance of not having "bleeding" issues.....Nick