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Offline Flying Colors

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Discharge of Organic T-Shirts
« on: September 23, 2014, 04:01:50 PM »
A customer supplied us with 6k Loomstate T-Shirts. The tag says 100% Organic Cotton.

Is there a concern with printing discharge on organic cotton?

We print discharge all the time and feel comfortable printing on normal cotton shirts just did not know if I should look out for something before we do some testing on Thursday.

Mark


Offline jvanick

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Re: Discharge of Organic T-Shirts
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2014, 04:04:06 PM »
I ran a bunch of Anvil Organic about 2 months back, no problems at all.

Offline blue moon

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Re: Discharge of Organic T-Shirts
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2014, 04:23:52 PM »
I ran a bunch of Anvil Organic about 2 months back, no problems at all.

we've had pretty good luck with Anvil organic ringspun. Some ppl here mentioned not liking them, but it always worked fine for us.

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Offline Underbase37

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Re: Discharge of Organic T-Shirts
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2014, 04:27:43 PM »
Same here on the Anvil, and  very good luck with a few other brands as well.

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Re: Discharge of Organic T-Shirts
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2014, 04:35:06 PM »
I have had pretty mixed results with organic in general.  I had a small run of Anvil women's organic come out nice and coffee colored instead of white a few months back, but have had plenty of others work really well.

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Re: Discharge of Organic T-Shirts
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2014, 08:53:40 AM »
Its not the cotton its the dye. A truly organic shirt uses "organic" dyes (debatable) which derive from vegetable or mineral matter. Thus the inconsistency.

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Re: Discharge of Organic T-Shirts
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2014, 03:11:54 PM »
Thanks for the info, will let you guys know how it turns out.

Mark