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Offline JORDANART

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Burnout t-shirt printing troubles
« on: January 12, 2017, 04:25:21 PM »
     We have never had great results printing on Burnouts. ( next level 6533) the end product is always rough and patchy. Our customers love those products no matter how hard we try and steer them to a solid fabric. I have an order for Burnouts and wanted to get some of your opinions to providing a great feel and end result when printing on these troublesome beasts! Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please let me know what INKS, MESH, and please share any horror stories you've encountered! 
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Re: Burnout t-shirt printing troubles
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2017, 10:39:34 AM »
When we do them we use a 230 screen. We do use plastisol here. So for the burnouts when the customer orders i tell them we will do a distressed print. What i really mean is maybe 2 strokes with a 230. No p/f/p.. This way we can keep the hand soft on it and it works well for us on the shirts. The few people we have done them for really like the print so we just keep going with that.


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Re: Burnout t-shirt printing troubles
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2017, 11:19:59 AM »
^Almost exactly same thing here, except that we usually single-stroke the 230. So far, we've only done this with soft hand white ink, which takes on the tone of the garment. I always prep people for the fact that the print will be affected by the texture of the garment, so they know what to expect. Very soft, everyone has liked them. (But glad we don't have to deal with them often.)

Re mutliple colors: I remember seeing dye-sub'ed burnouts at a trade show once. They looked pretty good, but I've never tried it. Might be something to experiment with.
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Re: Burnout t-shirt printing troubles
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2017, 11:31:55 AM »
Defiantly try to avoid flashing too much.  We've done multi color prints on the auto, only to have the first test print come around with burn lines from the bulb in the flash across the whole thing.
We do the same as above...usually 230 mesh if we can get away with it depending on the image.

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Re: Burnout t-shirt printing troubles
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2017, 11:35:30 AM »
  The last batch of burnouts we printed I talked the customer into letting us print their solid WHITE design using one screen only. It does provide a softer/vintage style, but the WHITE ink takes on the color of the garment.
   We just printed a 3color plus Underbase design on NL burnout tanks this morning and the result was surprisingly good! Mostly do to the fact that the design was a horizontal text logo with a vertical Gradient blend that measured 4'' inches tall.