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Eagle ball jerseys are fading awful using Bright Tiger. Some of the moisture wicken are also... Everything else looks good, anyone else here use Bright Tiger and have you had bad or good thoughts on it. Thanks
Yes Frog, dye migration... We have just started using it again in the last few months and we do bunches of ball jerseys and some of them are 2 button Eagle brand 50/50. We have noticed that after a couple of days sitting on the table that the white is now almost a light blue on the navy and even some of the red is fading or migrating. We have been doing team uniforms for years and this is the only time we have noticed it and with other inks but not the Eagle brand, they usually do well. I am using a Inline numbering system so its a low mesh screen and I am putting 2 solid coats on them. I did notice my printer had slowed down the belt on the dryer and wondered if over curing the ink could cause this. Not sure but I do have to do further investigation, I cannot have this problem and need to nip it in the bud! Thanks for any advice
Alan may I ask what brand Poly you use and is it printable on 100% cotton as well?
Quote from: sportsshoppe on March 25, 2015, 09:37:59 AMAlan may I ask what brand Poly you use and is it printable on 100% cotton as well?This, from Union Ink...· I can get by with one white ink for all my cotton and cotton/poly blends!While this is not totally a myth, there are certainly good arguments that should make every printer think twice about making a single white ink work for both 100 percent cotton and cotton/polyester blends.I visit plants routinely that are trying to use the same white ink on every substrate. Ordinarily, this single ink will be a high-opacity, low-bleed formulation they’ve tested and found to work well on their worst-bleeding fabrics. After all, if the gun works on an elephant it should work on a rabbit, right? Wrong! Ink manufacturers understand fully that printers want to simplify the process. Hey, if they only had one white ink, they’d never grab the bucket formulated for 100 percent cotton and mistakenly print it on a 50/50 garment resulting in a bleeding print and rejection by the customer. However, what printers sometimes fail to appreciate is that ink makers put dye-blocking agents in low-bleed inks to minimize the migration of fugitive textile dyes from polyester-blended garments. However, some textile dyes found in 100 percent cotton garments can come into contact with the blocking agents, and “ghost” images can appear at the point of contact resulting in rejection by the customer.
Quote from: Orion on March 25, 2015, 09:53:24 AMQuote from: sportsshoppe on March 25, 2015, 09:37:59 AMAlan may I ask what brand Poly you use and is it printable on 100% cotton as well?This, from Union Ink...· I can get by with one white ink for all my cotton and cotton/poly blends!While this is not totally a myth, there are certainly good arguments that should make every printer think twice about making a single white ink work for both 100 percent cotton and cotton/polyester blends.I visit plants routinely that are trying to use the same white ink on every substrate. Ordinarily, this single ink will be a high-opacity, low-bleed formulation they’ve tested and found to work well on their worst-bleeding fabrics. After all, if the gun works on an elephant it should work on a rabbit, right? Wrong! Ink manufacturers understand fully that printers want to simplify the process. Hey, if they only had one white ink, they’d never grab the bucket formulated for 100 percent cotton and mistakenly print it on a 50/50 garment resulting in a bleeding print and rejection by the customer. However, what printers sometimes fail to appreciate is that ink makers put dye-blocking agents in low-bleed inks to minimize the migration of fugitive textile dyes from polyester-blended garments. However, some textile dyes found in 100 percent cotton garments can come into contact with the blocking agents, and “ghost” images can appear at the point of contact resulting in rejection by the customer. Though obvious to many, it should be pointed out that stacking hot right out of the dryer increases this possibility. The other argument against the single white ink is that low bleeds and poly-specific inks are often costlier.
Rob can you share with us the simple test your speaking of?