Waterbase Silk Screening
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- jrem
What waterbase silk screening ink do you recommend? The application would be on jersey material. I am looking for an ink that is: low bleed, high opacity, and able to withstand at least 15 washes.
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
everything I ever did screen-printing-wise almost always was done using Nazdar products: http://www.nazdar.com/
Can't go wrong there - although I don't think I went anywhere near water-based inks... soooo... dunno.
- lvl_130
water based inks on jersey material with low bleed and high opacity?
i'm not sure, but it sounds like you want everything that is not water-based.
why does it have to be water-based anyway?
- BonSeff0
that's true lvl
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
agreed - why not just do a heat transfer or something silly like that if you only want the jersey's to last so long...
.. why bother w/the screen, the emulsion.. blah blah blah... i guarantee you can do a decent job that won't take you more than 8 cigarettes an a hot iron.
- mrdobolina0
printing on jerseys is a bitch for a million reasons.
* sometimes they have different numbers
* sometimes they are mesh
* jersey material most often contains nylon which cant be heat-cured over a certain temperature or it will curl up
water-based is hi-bleed lo-opacity, I'd send this job out if I were you.
- mrdobolina0
plus jerseys are expensive, if you fuck them up they screw up the whole profit margin.