printing on nylon

There may be situations where regular plastisols could work, but you likely would need to add an adhesion catalyst to the ink. Nylon inks are specifically formulated for nylon printing. I would check into using them also.

jaggraphics said:

I am getting ready to print on 100% nylon taffeta. Can I use regular plastisol and add the catalyst?
Any info you can give me would be great.
Thanks,
Jen

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Yeah I would use Nylobond. It works well but I wouldn't buy large amounts of it. When exposed to air, it doesn't take long for it to gel, even in the bottom closed afterwards.

you can use regular plastisol ink just make sure you mix in the correct amount of catalyst.

Yep nylabond works great!

nylabond or wilflex huggars. both work great. i find that the huggars from wilflex is a little easier to work with.

Nyla bond is terrible terrible stuff to work with.

I must try this "Huggars!"

Pertaining to Nylobond, Make sure that after you use it that you clean the top of the bottle completely prior to putting the cap back on and make sure that it is air tight this way the Nylobond will stay fresh,
also make sure you get a sample piece of similar fabric and run a sample by printing it and sending through the dryer, this will allow you to determine whether you are using too much or too little.
Hope that helps some.

i know for a fact that you can get the huggars from wild side north. it is fairly priced and it is extremely easy to work with and has a long shelf life and lasts more than an hour on the screen

We have a contract with a watersports company for a couple of years now who give us panels to print much like the nylon flags. The panels are part of bouyancy aid jackets and throwline bags and are coated on the non printed side. We use sericols nylobag 2 part ink and catalyst range. We usually air dry these over 24hrs and stack them when touch dry and usually they adhere well when tested with fingernails and against itself. Unfortunately some panels have come back where it looks like the print has not taken some months after we sent them off after they were passed ok, and they have started to make them into items. You can almost peel some of the print off and we are trying to think why this is on this particular run and not others. Any advice or thoughts would help and if people have encountered similar things. I read somewhere that prints may lose their adhesiveness after a long time regardless of testing.