Low Bleed ink on 90/10 blend?

[Frog]

Do you use a low bleed ink on shirts like Hanes F170 90/10 Ultimate Cotton fleece? I generally do, but wonder how necessary it is, especially on a color like Royal.

[alan802]

Probably not necessary but with the low bleed inks out there now and the improvements they've made in their printing ability, if there is a doubt, we use low bleed.  I'm so gun shy about this after the 750 piece screwup in 08' when I took what I thought was enough precaution and used a low bleed underbase but it wasn't low bleed enough and we finally used up all those shirts last year for test printing.

[brandon]

I second that. We had a similar story a few years back. Nowhere near as financially horrible though!

[MarielAviles]

I would recommend to use a low bleed ink.  Nowadays you probably will come across with substrates that even though may be 90/10 blend seem to be somewhat challenging; especially colors like royal blue, greens etc.  Just as mentioned on the previous replies is better to play it safe.  Epic Quick White is one I would recommend.

http://www.polyone.com/en-us/about/businessgroups/Inks/Literature/Wilflex%20Epic%20QuickWhite.pdf

[Frog]

Royal Blue, bingo!

Actually, for many years, I used only Low Bleed IC, though back in the day I preached in general to have both cotton and low bleed in one's arsenal.
That was for a few reasons, low bleeds often cost more, sometimes possess a little less printability, and the possibility of ghosting on cotton. (though rarely seen)
Those differences have lessened over the years.

btw, even when I posted this, I had the screen loaded up with SF LB. I both wanted to see what the TSB community thought, and put it out there in general for everyone.

[Gabe]

buffalo white works miracles for me even on 50/50 red
never got a bleeding problem nor ghosting just don`t stack`em too high