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Default Re: brand of silkscreenprint ink that can air dry?

Austin, I am still new to the waterbased inks but I will give you what I have. You can use a heat press to heat set your ink when your completely done printing all colors to cure it, making it washfast. "Washfast" is the ability to wash your shirts without all the ink washing out. What I have been doing is print a pass and then flash it quickly or use a heat gun for a couple seconds to dry the ink before going on to the next color. I only do that if I am printing one color on top of another. If the colors do not rest on each other I will continue to print without drying in between passes. You are not heat setting each color in between a pass, just drying it a bit. Does this make sense?