Hello, im new to screen printing. Im from Quebec, Canada. And i have recently bought supply from montreal at a art supply store. They sold everything u needed from speedball.
So from that i couldnt find any supplyiers around my area, and i live 4-5 hours from montreal and that was the closest, which i can find for the supplys i needed to start my screen printing.
So i ended up buying speedball wooden frames, speedball water down ink, Hinges to build my own station, and the other stuff needed to get me going.
Well i have gotten the stuff, but havent started to test it out yet, was wondering if the speedball ink is good? how long will it last untill it start to fade away and peel?
Im having problems finding a good price on a flash unit in my area, there all going for 1200 which is expensive for college student like myself. So i was wondering if i buy a heat gun, will it work as good? i know i will have to do it for 30-45 seconds, but will i still have to iron the speedball ink, because on the bottle it says to iron the ink with a cloth or paper, so it wont wash off in the washer.
Can anyone answer my questions, I own my own clothing company so ive ended up buyign my won equiptment to print my own shrits astead of gettign them made by otehr people.. so was wondering if speedball will stand out and lasts on the shirts to sell to my fans and etc.
Chris.
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Black inks looks pretty good and have stayed permanent on every t-shirt that I have printed.
White inks I'm not crazy about but I haven't tried adding the additives that are recommended to go with it to make the ink more opaque.
I'm currently looking for a better brand of white ink but the black ink I can live with by speedball.
I have flashed my shirts using a heat press with good results with speedball ink.
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i use speedball too and get my stuff from dickblick.com it's not the cheapest ive found but only by like a dollar or maybe 2 per quart. plus they have been very reliable and speedy on delivery.
for temp and time ive experimented quite a bit. i dont have a flash so i use a small heat gun at 950 for about 20 seconds in between colors. then let it sit overnight. cool thing is it air drys but ive found a little better washfastness by then ironing it before you wash it. only thing is you can burn the ink and it can get hard and cracky if its a little too thick.
its not exactly professional but its been working.
You should try Spectrachem's waterbased inks. I doubt you'll find them in Canada as my searches didn't find anything, but that's what I used when I did waterbased and their white is top notch over Speedball. Plus the inks are for paper and textile so you didn't need to have two sets if you ever decided to do paper or poster prints.
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