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renwick · May 29th, 2007

hi after printing and drying some shirts with water based red ink on white tees,after the first wash the ink has bled, really bad,can anyone help.cheers.

ironhead · May 29th, 2007

What ink curing methods have you tried so far?

Calibrated · May 29th, 2007

It would be most helpful if you provided some more details like...

1) what brand of water base ink?

2) How did you dry the ink?

3) What type of garment? 100% or 50/50?

Generically speaking without any details to go on, it sounds to me like you failed to properly dry or set the ink. Most brands of water base inks will state that you should wait at least 24-48 hours after proper cure to launder the garments as well just to make sure.

Fluid · May 29th, 2007

Yep more than likely the shirts were not cured.

renwick · May 30th, 2007

hi i`m sorry i should of put more info on.
1,the make of ink speedball
2,i dried it with a heat gun then heat pressed it,(i was told by the seller it was ok to do)?
3,the shirt was 100% cotton.

Fluid · May 30th, 2007

what temp and how long did you press. Probably just not long enough

renwick · May 30th, 2007

i tried it for 50 secs at 150.0c.
would you say longer? or a higher temp.all your help is greatfully recieved.

Solmu · May 30th, 2007

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Originally Posted by renwick


	i tried it for 50 secs at 150.0c. would you say longer? or a higher temp.all your help is greatfully recieved.

A bit hotter and longer, or the same temperature and a lot longer.

ironhead · May 30th, 2007

I work with speedball ink and like calibrated said, even after curing you should wait sometime before washing. I found that out the hard way also by doing a washing right after I had heat pressed some shirts.

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