By Mexabilly on
Apr. 21, 2010
Good day all I'm having some difficulties printing on wind breakers what are some of the techniques you use to hold the jacket from moving and what kind of ink do I use and the drying process... need help much appreciated..
Re: help printing on wind breakers
I gotta say that we only print wind breakers in 1-color. We use the Nylon ink additive to our regular plastisols and go from there. The jacket clamp is a MUST. We usually flash cure the Nylon inks as I have destroyed too many wind breakers running them through the dryer to want to do it much more.
Matt McNeill
JuBilee Screen Printing
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Re: help printing on wind breakers
First of all to print on nylon windbreakers you have to have a jacket hold down table. If you don't have that, good luck! Several Inks can be used, my best experiences always came from Internation Coatings, 2 part system. Multi-color prints require flashing the jacket first, then printing first color, flash, print, flash and so on till it is done. Not an easy product for amatuers.
Re: help printing on wind breakers
Travelers,
I agree with you completely....
what we do is:
I'll send them through the dryer first...to get any shrink out of them first...or most of it.
I will then print with a 50/50 low bleed ink.....flash as little as possible....then hit it again.
ALL printing will be done while it is clamped in a jacket hold-down clamp......2 layers of fabric at any time is asking for trouble without a clamping system.
Jon