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Quote: Originally Posted by ragees I dont really understand but it sounds kinda weird... also what temperature do you preheat the and then I think it would be a bit dangerous printing the warm shirt and maybe risking to start curing the ink while it's still in the screen. How many shierts did you do?? it would take a hell of a long time to preheat every shirt. But hey nice of you sharing this. I'll be trying it on one of my own shirts at the end of the run or something. Thanks

I have no idea what temperature it was, I was using a heat gun. I had it on high and heated the shirt for about 10 seconds...not the whole shirt, just the print area which was only about 10 inches wide and 2 inches tall.

I would think it would cure the ink on the screen also, but somehow it didn't. The ink got kinda soft...more fluid. I only printed 12 shirts which took me about 2 hours (about 10 minutes per shirt). But remember this was my first run since I got my equipment and I hope to increase my speed with experience.

But I said that to illustrate how much time I had the ink on the screen...2 hours with heated shirts and no curing on the screen. When I was done I reclaimed the left over ink and pressure washed any ink remaining from my design with the appropriate chemical and put it away to use again.

I actually printed 6 more shirts with the same screen and technique yesterday and they all came out perfect again! So the screen was not clogged with any residual ink or anything like that. It worked just the same as before.

 

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