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Old July 31st, 2007 Jul 31, 2007 7:00:04 AM -   #1 (permalink)
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I love vintage looking shirts and I have been browsing on the net and found some nice looking shirts. I dont think they have been printed with plastisol inks (by the looks of them). Is that water based inks? How do you achieve that almost transpaent look?
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Old July 31st, 2007 Jul 31, 2007 7:27:55 AM -   #2 (permalink)
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I believe they do use waterbased ink for these and it is distressed which can be achieved in your design
 
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Old July 31st, 2007 Jul 31, 2007 8:35:26 AM -   #3 (permalink)
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Default Re: How is this achieved?
there is no way to look at a picture of a shirt and tell if it is plasticol inks or not. I have printed for 2 companies from this site with Plasticol inks and get the same soft to no hand print.
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Old July 31st, 2007 Jul 31, 2007 10:01:31 AM -   #4 (permalink)
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Yeah, my guess is that it is reduced or chino plastisol.
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Default Re: How is this achieved?
Hard (or impossible even) to tell from a picture, but if anything they look more like plastisol than waterbased.
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