[mindye]

Hi to all,

It's my first time using glitter and i'm stuck....i'm using a purple plastisol glitter and i have some t-shirt to give by wednesday....first the colour itself doesn't stay much on the t-shirt and my client want that purple colour....i'm using a 32 mesh and my result is that the purple doesn't come out it just stay in a fade {very light} purple....is it how it suppose to be or i'm i doing something wrong????

loads of thanks to you all

 

[Fauxfax]

If the mesh holes were too small you would get the base going through leaving the glitter behind. Is the glitter getting left behind? Get an uncoated screen and use a spatula to scrape some through onto a white piece of cloth. Then as a comparison scrape a little directly onto the cloth and flash them. Is there any difference? Did you stir the ink in the pot? Are you printing onto coloured T shirts that might dumb the colour down?

 

[m_short]

If you're getting the glitter effect that you're looking for but not a strong color I would underbase the glitter with the color that you're trying to achieve. If you're not getting the glitter effect you're looking for than I would still underbase if with a purple that print the glitter on top with a larger mesh count to allow the glitter to flow through to the shirt.

 

[mindye]

the glitter does go through it's just the colour seemed to stay behind...just touched the print from yesterday and felt the glitter,maybe i should have to put a base coat....is all glitter ink the same,or is there those that can actually put the colour and glitter on the print......oh and i'm printing on light colours {white} t-shirts.....

Again thanks guys and cuz of you all i'm enjoying that job....

 

[Fauxfax]

I think you need to do the sample tests to rule out the screen. I was recently playing with glitter ink (silver) and it was great - although the other inks bled into it where they touched - which I later read was a common problem. I also used a finer purple glitter ink which wasn't so great. The silver was Wilflex Silver Glitter. I used the purple because it was cheap and I was just doing tests and the wide mesh screen was EATING my silver - yum, yum - and it's expensive.
I might be tempted to create a purple and mix this 50/50 with your glitter ink. If not then it's probably down to an underbase.

 

[m_short]

putting an underbase of the color is a very common solution. To allow the glitter to show up well on the shirt the base has to be a semi transparent so we always put the matching base color to allow as much of the glitter to show with out making it look dull.