1. Keep your emulsion in a shop fridge- keeps the emulsion from reaching those high & low temps
2. Use old emulsion around the edges of a coated screen instead of tape.
3. Plastisol ink needs to cure at 330 deg- adjust belt speed in the summer and winter
4.Out of vellum- Print image on normal paper then poor a little BABY OIL on the paper-
The oil make the paper translucent & works wonders!!!!!!!!
5. Use Chemtool Carb Cleaner on those "Paw Prints"Dry cleaning fluid is normally used in those spot guns and the same chemicals that are in dry cleaning fluid are in the Carb cleaner.
6. Drano is used as a haze remover
7.Bleach to reclaim emulsion
Simple green as a degreaser
8.Tint your White ink blue for better coverage on dark shirts and thins the ink.
9. On the fly registation Push instead of pull
10.Mix all leftover ink in a 5 gallon bucket with some black ink( 1 gallon) and instantly 5 gallons of black ink.
How many Cheats do you have?
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Last edited by denck; July 18th, 2009 at 09:56 AM.
Be very carefull with using Carb cleaner as a screen opener- Carb cleaner does strange things to different emulsions- Ive had it eat away the emulsion and also lock the emulsion in so hard that a pressure washer has a hard time getting it off.
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Last edited by denck; July 18th, 2009 at 09:57 AM.
Be very carefull with using Carb cleaner as a screen opener- Carb cleaner does strange things to different emultions- Ive had it eat away the emultion and also lock the emultion in so hard that a pressure washer has a hard time getting it off.
Just wanted to let you know, it's emulsion not emultion. Thanks for the tips.
This "trick" has been done for years. Your tinting the ink so the color of the shirt doesn't come through the White ink. On a dark color the eye still see's a White color
This "trick" has been done for years. Your tinting the ink so the color of the shirt doesn't come through the White ink. On a dark color the eye still see's a White color
Detergent makers still use that blue to coin the phrase that your washing will be whiter than white.
Depending on OSHA might want to exercise caution with some of these chemicals
that are mentioned. Yes have used them(or similar) in past and they do work but
today's regulations are such - what does the MSDS sheet look like for lye and carb
cleaners with xylenes,propanols et al?
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