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Has anyone had a problem with oil type marks on Gildan shirts. We generally see them only after the shirt is run in the dryer. We have cleaned the inside of the dryer but it seems that when the shirt is heated is when the marks appear.
It could be a problem at your end, but it also could be a problem in manufacture: sometimes the sewing machine will drip oil onto the garment. While I don't recall hearing about it with Gildan, it is a problem that all t-shirt blank companies potentially face (if it's not caught in quality control). I recall a while ago there was a brand of kid's blanks that someone was having a lot of trouble with.
Is it possible that the oil becomes more noticeable after the dryer, but is there before? I'd check over incoming stock to make sure it's not happening before they get to you.
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I have noticed these "oil" type marks on the green Gildan sweatshirts. Thank goodness most of the sweaters are useable and with the print on them the oil mark is not very noticeable.
We see these oil marks on all light colored Gildans...
they're definitely coming from the manufacturer.
You can use an aerosol stain remover to get rid of them quite quickly...spray > dry > dust off > done.
It's a pita, but hey...you get what you pay for.
I'm not sure what you're talking about with the dryer tho..
the oil usually washes out, so by the time the shirt is going in the dryer...it should already be gone.
Anyway, gotta love third world manufacturing...
it may be cheap, but someone has to pay the price.
I'm not sure what you're talking about with the dryer tho..
the oil usually washes out, so by the time the shirt is going in the dryer...it should already be gone.
I think the dryer he's referring to is the dryer that is used to cure the plastisol ink
That is correct. We are not seeing the marks prior to going into the conveyor dryer.
We have cleaned the dryer and are not sure if the heat is activating something in the dye.
I use heat press and also screen print. I see the oil marks prior to printing, so they are coming from the manufacturer this way. The dry cleaning gun may take them out, but we shouldn't have to do this. Maybe we should contact a Gildan rep regarding this issue.
I myself had one order a while back on the natural color ultra cottons that had black oil marks on them. There was about 8 to 10 of them that had it out of about 80 shirts. So probably about 10% of the order.
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I brought this up as well a week back. My pink Tees from Gilden seem to have the same stain after i dried it.
So the stain remover should fix the problem?
Aerosol stain remover will lift the "transparent" oil marks...
if you're seeing "black" oil marks on your shirts, I don't think so.
The oil looks like a drop of WD40 or something...
probably from the heavily-worked sewing machines in the free zone.
If you have Black oil on any of your shirts, that's worth a return to your wholesaler...
but I wouldn't bother complaining to Gildan, that's the equivalent of complaining to Ford about your truck.
Gildan made like 1/2 billion dollars last year...
good luck on talking to anyone that could actually change anything (read: call center in India).
The oil is just something that comes with the "cheap shirt" territory...
buy a can of stain lifter and chalk-it-up to the "deal" you got on your t-shirts.
I had the same problem with lime from Gildan a while back. Stain didn't show up until the shirt came off the heat press. Called the distributor, nothing I could do since they were already decorated and no way of proving it was not my fault.
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