[g.lupo]

Customer gave me some Bella shirts to do print on I haven't used Bella before. After a couple runs a few of them didn't come up right and I'm guessing from pretreatment because it was in spots. I can't upload pic from phone. It looks like white specs kinda like I sprayed pretreatment on the design. Would this be from
Ti little pretreat

To much pretreat

Not enough pressing preteat

To much pressing pretreat.


Thanks for any help.

 

[allamerican-aeoon]

J,
Are they white or dark? Either or should not be big difference than other shirts. No poly in it? Lycra? If they are stretchy. If they are light it will be good idea try w/Poly pretreat?
Maybe your spray skill got rusty? Lol
If they are many drive over to AA. Use pt machine free include pretreat and coffee and others!
Cheers! Beers are on me always!

 

[g.lupo]

thanks peter, it was only 3 but since customer supplied and he didnt want to supply a few extra incase of mess ups, so i have to just subtitute for others. but anyways just trying figure out why it happened. ill need to do some expierements and the next time i get around to you guys i will to bring.
Its not poly or lycra or anythign like that.

 

[JohnL]

It's always difficult printing on specific garments for the first time. The pretreatment variable is always the largest hurdle.

Determining the correct amount will make or break the print. Since all garments are a bit different this should be the first step to printing on any new garment.

From experience the Bella Shirts are ring spun, however they tend to have a looser knit which gives the feeling of a softer lighter garment. Fibrillation is also a big factor. Because of these factors they tend to need a little more pretreatment than normal ringspun garments. The margin for error is a bit slimmer than on most garmnets so they are a bit trickier to print.

Hope this was helpful.

 

[StoneEyes]

One of the more popular shirts selling from Bella is a Lycra blend, different feel then the all cotton shirts. I've got a run going this weekend will let you know.

 

[cadart]

Sometimes I have seen white specs on a shirt with a white underbase. It seems it will happen if I don't pre-press the garment or pre-treat too much and lift the press to quickly, pulling up fibers. The best i can figure is that there are fibers sticking up, white adheres to them, color is laid down but misses some of the fibers. when you press, the white fibers are laid down on top of the colors, giving a speckled look. The garment usually looks fine before the pressing.
Hope it makes sense.

 

[OSSKOBRET]

I have found it best to split cure time half of the cure i will hover the for the rest i will do a light press for the remaining time. i had a issue with fibers sticking up but when i used this procedure it seemed to lay fibers back down on the half cured print ,and i did not have any white showing thru since fibers where covered with correct color and the color pass had a slight cure so the white did not push up thru color

 

[g.lupo]

It wasn't white speckles but an off white like glue I think I didn't cure. Ebough.