New type of dryer

[UnderPressureSP]

I was following the realthread instagram and it seems they got a new dryer.  They claim its the only one in the world?   They claim it gives the shirts superior softness.   Looks like a M&R product with a raised belt so the water base ink cures faster is what i am guessing which than equals a soft shirt unless it some how makes the overall fabric softer like the power wash t-shirt from american apparel.  I just thought this was cool!

[GraphicDisorder]

Its a Sprint 3000T

http://www.mrprint.com/en/ProductOverview.aspx?id=180

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3LoSGCxdeU

[screenprintguy]

I dont know about softer shirt, I mean heat is heat. I think the idea behind this dryer is multiple belt levels allowing the shirt to go through a few times staying in the chamber allowing the dryer to be shorter taking up less room on your work floor. Made really for the water based printer. I could be wrong, but I know they were working on something like this. PatFinn could elaborate on it more I'm sure. 

[244]

I dont know about softer shirt, I mean heat is heat. I think the idea behind this dryer is multiple belt levels allowing the shirt to go through a few times staying in the chamber allowing the dryer to be shorter taking up less room on your work floor. Made really for the water based printer. I could be wrong, but I know they were working on something like this. PatFinn could elaborate on it more I'm sure. 

The shirts can stay in the chamber much longer without disrupting production. The softness can come from the shirts being wrapped around the rollers as they reverse directions.

[screenprintguy]

Ah well there ya have it UPSP  .

[TCT]

If it is the one that was in the showroom at M&R little over a year ago, it IS bad ass!!

 I call B.S. on it making the shirt softer though. Just like THEIR SuperSoft inks.... One of the 10 billion issues with social media, say what you want, very few will question it, especially if you are not educated on a particular industry...  Oh, that reminds me, check out our facebook page later today, we are announcing we were voted best screen printer in the whole world!!!    

[GraphicDisorder]

To me the context of their post was in reference to the soft inks they use. Which is no different than any of the rest of us can use. But it can read as if they are the only ones doing it if you want to read into it. People see what they want to see.

[bimmridder]

It's about time, Alex

[Admiral]

It just sounds like how they are describing water based inks is all...

Most customers don't know about inks from the get go so you can talk about what you use however you want to educate the customer easily.  I wouldn't advertise them as 'low to no hand' on the print to social media.

I do like how that dryer is a space saver though.  Saw it at ISS Long Beach and thought about it for DTG curing.

[Frog]

A simple fix to bring these folks into the realm of honest copy writing

And I don't think for an instant that they were not trying to mislead the girly-man-shirt wearing public.

[TCT]

It's about time, Alex

Ya, sorry you didn't get to vote on the prestigious title we received Dave. It was a kinda a impromptu vote that took place last night around 11pm.... Me, a dozen or so empty cans of amber nectar, and the mouse next to the power washer. Ya, we all voted..... But I'll just leave that out of our "voted universes best" post, don't want it to get too wordy or anything! 

[KevWilso]

That is pretty cool.  Great use of space.

[ebscreen]

Precision made the same thing in the eighties/nineties.
Awesome idea but I can't hang with the unavoidable incline infeed.
Hard to hit two presses.

[Wildcard]

This might give away my inexperience with wb and dc inks: since the  shirts are flipping print side down on the middle belt, that would mean that inks would need to be pretty far along the curing process by the end of belt 1 to prevent the print getting damaged or perhaps ink on the belt... so how much of an effect is all that extra dryer time on belt 2 and 3 having on the print and the tshirt?

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[mimosatexas]

It's dry to the touch pretty quick, think of flash times for example. The rest is actually fully removing the moisture etc.