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I have a mini sprint dryer with an 8 ft chamber. Would it be practical to dive into waterbase printing and still get any kind of production? I've printed some discharge and found that it was pretty slow because I had to turn the belt speed down to 4 which caused the unloader to have to wait for an open spot on the belt while printing large prints.
Quote from: ShirtShackandMore on May 28, 2015, 06:55:58 PMI have a mini sprint dryer with an 8 ft chamber. Would it be practical to dive into waterbase printing and still get any kind of production? I've printed some discharge and found that it was pretty slow because I had to turn the belt speed down to 4 which caused the unloader to have to wait for an open spot on the belt while printing large prints.we have an extra drone on our dryer, but we do WB and DC all the time at this speed, big and small prints. So yes it's feasible. Just might have to slow down production slightly to make it work, like you said.
Cool, thanks for the feedback. Now it's time to choose which brand of waterbase to go with and also which additives I'll need.
Doug we've been pulling off lots of w/b with a heatwave, you will be even better off with the mini, it won't be 80 doz an hour but you should be able to produce decent sized image area with proper cure time at a minimum of 30 doz/hr if not closer to 50 , depending on the image area and how you can place shirts on the belt. That's all about to change for us within the next month I'll shoot you an email, Hope you guys are doing well brother!Mike