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With the help of many of you here, I have come to realize that my curing skills have been lacking. I have been using a heat gun until I can purchase a flash dryer but thanks to Windwardapparel, I am confident in my use of the heat gun as a tool for curing. With that said, I have a handful of sample shirts that I printed before learning this information that I believe may not stand up to being washed. So my question is:

Is it possible to go back to designs printed a week or two ago and spend the time curing them further to correct potentially poor curing? Would it even matter or affect the shirt in any way if I were to go and run heat across them again? I realize this may seem like an odd or even lame question, but I have these tees with a nice looking graphic and I'd hate to sell them to someone and have the graphic fall apart after the first wash and I'd rather not keep them all for myself because I'm nervous about the above situation occurring.

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htt117

Assume they are printed with plastisol type ink. All of the transfers from companies like transfer express are partially cured and then final cured later with additional heat and pressure. I would expect your can cure most inks with later application of heat. You might consider using a heat press to get the effects of both temperature and pressue, although this will probably change the surface look/feel of your printing.

Jim

 

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darwinchristian

yes you can come back to cure later. one of my first runs of tees had washout problems (thankfully they were for our shop) and i ran them through the dryer again at a new setting to fully cure them. no problems after that.

plastisol is liquid until it reaches a specific temp throughout. only then will it turn to a solid. you could leave a wet print out forever. it will only be dry once the curing specs are reached.

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