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May 4th, 2009
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|  Strange texture - help
I tried printing on back of some normal shirts today - not t-shirts - but when I applied heat press, the ink became textured as shown in image. Any advice please. | |
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| Re: Strange texture - help
Rai,
No idea. What fabric is this on? Can you scan this in so that we can see the fabric? It almost looks as if the fabric may have reacted to the heat of the press. | |
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| Re: Strange texture - help
It's 100% cotton shirting fabric. A regular casual white shirt bought from H&M (uk)...trid on 3 other shirts, same thing  | |
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| Re: Strange texture - help
Maybe the ink is damaged? But to be honest I love that texture, it's very interesting. Sure it's not what you intended to get but it sure looks different.
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| Re: Strange texture - help
Alot of times certain shirts will have what is called a sizing treatment on them. This helps to keep them looking nicer longer in stores. My guess is that there is some kind of sizing treatment on that shirt. Did you buy it from a department store? If so that may be the problem. | |
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| Re: Strange texture - help
Hawrai,
Are you touching the fabric of the shirt directly with the heatpress?
If you are, I would put a teflon sheet between the heat press and the ink on the shirt.
From here it looks like something is ggetting stuck to the heatpress. | |
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| Re: Strange texture - help
Maybe you could dry the ink first by hovering the press over the print first and then closing the press to cure it. We print on bandanas and haven't seen the ink do that on woven fabric.
Did you use FastColor Pretreatment?
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| Re: Strange texture - help
Hover for a few seconds, then place paper/parchment on it and press medium pressure for 90 seconds at 330.350 and then see the results. Have you printed to anything else with this same black cartridge? If this is a new machine and that was your first print, are you sure that the shipping fluid is out of the lines? | |
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May 5th, 2009
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| Re: Strange texture - help
Ok I will try hovering for few seconds, let you guys know in few days...yes I tried teflon and parchment paper.
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| Re: Strange texture - help
As I asked above, did you buy this shirt at a department store? If so, no matter what you try heat pressing it might not work if there is a treatment on the fabric. If you are wanting to use 100% cotton button up shirts, I would buy them from a wholesaler to make sure no treatments are on the fabric. | |
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| Re: Strange texture - help
Another thing to try is to mist the shirt with distilled water and then heat press the shirt before you do anything with the pretreatment. Some people state that they are able to steam out the sizing chemical on some shirts. This does not work for all shirts though.
Definitely let us know if something works. On a side note, I do see where having some textured in the ink could look pretty cool for specific garments only if they hold up in the wash.
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May 6th, 2009
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Yes they were from department stores, I will test the misting over weekend, will let you guys know.
The texture does look good though, if only it was consistent.  | |
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