 Please help, cracking on shirts, waiting customers
Hi everyone,
I received great help on my other questions, and I really appreciate it!
I have a big problem now though, with cracking / chipping / fading on my shirts. I use an epson r320, with the bulkflo magic inks, magic/transjet II paper, on hanes 5280 plain white blanks. I print them at photo quality, on plain paper settings. After testing piece after piece of transfers, on cut up bits of shirts folded in half, I came up with the following settings that seemed to work best for my transfers. I press at medium pressure, at 360f, for 10 seconds, and then peel right after. After washing all the bits of cut cloth, it seemed to be working good, so I thought I was set. I then sold a few shirts, and got more orders. Then yesterday, I stuck two finished shirts I made for myself in the laundry, and to my complete shock, the black ink was very cracked and about a 3rd of it had chipped off. The other colors were also faded, more then they should have been. I need to figure out what is not working asap, so I don't have unhappy customers on my heels.
My heat press is a bit old, so if the heat guage wasn't totally accurate, could it make this dramatic of a differance? Or maybe, what I'm considering to be medium pressure really is light pressure, and that could be the problem? Or maybe I should be pressing longer?
Does anyone have some suggestions on what to try next, or troubleshooting tips? Has anyone else experianced this problem? I have read of others having cracking problems, but always with generic papers or inks, or stretchy shirts.
Any help, would be very very greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much,
Nitai
Last edited by nitai; January 25th, 2006 at 06:42 AM.
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