double sided print

glupo said:

when you guys do a double sided print, are you pretreating both sides at same time? pressing for full 3 minutes after print job on first side are doing for little less time since your going to be pressing it again for the back.

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Do not do this. Pre-treating both sides of the then pressing either side for more than 1 minutes will cause the pre-treatment to cure prior to printing. This will lead a print that washes out.

It is best to either pre-treat 1 side at a time and press for 90, pretreat second side print, then press for 90, flip and press for 90 again.

Or pre-treat both sides print then press for 20 seconds. Print back side press for 90, flip, press for 90, flip press for 90.

Always make sure to have a silicone sheet between the print and the bottom of the heat press.

We don't do much double sided printing, so someone may have a better method but this seems to work for us for the most part.

So a good method would be to pretreat front and press pretreat than print front and press for 90 sec, than pretreat back and press pretreat than print back and press for 90 sec and than 90 sec again on back since front was already heated for 2 minutes.
This would definitely save some time especially when doing a chest print first, and only heating for 90 sec you would be able to do about 30 blacks ands hour.
Am I understanding this right?

i always pretreat one side and print that side before pretreating the 2nd side. it assures that the fibers stay flat and don't get "roughed up", and if i have a print error, either by me or the printer, it saves me from not having the other side pretreated.