It seems almost every day somebody asks another dye migration question. In this case we received a garment dyed shirt with very bad dye migration into the white and light ink colors. We test printed one of those same problematic garments with a Rutland poly white underprint and cotton white overprint got great results. With…
Part 2 of 5 about fashion trends in the screenprinting world. Hanes reports increasing interest in the soft fabrics of their Nano collection, whether t-shirts or hoodies. This is true of both unisex and women’s shirts. Thinner fabrics are gaining traction, and their lightweight Nano hoodie has particularly been a favorite. Folks seem to know…
Quick post today. I have many inquiries lately about how to print a garment dyed shirt. Test the particular shirt and color, but many of them print well with discharge ink and that accentuates the softness of the shirts. Most colors most of the time print well with any good cotton white ink. If you…
In this day and age, it is not really a good excuse to plead ignorance about where your shirts are made. There is usually some information on the label, and then there is this thing called “the internet” where you can do either a little or a lot of research. In the coming weeks we’ll…
In the last several months we have been printing with discharge inks at a higher level than ever before. This is partially a trend and partially driven internally. This trend also corresponds with a trend toward specialty substrates, i.e.: tri-blends, fashion fleece, etc. Obviously, this complicates things. You can be reasonably sure of the results you…
I thought this was a nice saying to start the weekend. Rutland Discharge White Plus, 20″ x 20″ jumbo print on a 28″ x 28″ 100% cotton, J. Crew Bandana. Happy Friday.
Keri Ambrosino, Judy Winters and I combined to make this year’s Pawtucket Film Festival shirt. Of course there was some help from the former Soviet Union in the mix. There are millions of reasons to be horrified by the policies of the former Soviet Union, but they did stop Hitler and they did produce some of…
We’re very cautious to avoid “bleeding” and “dye-migration” when it comes to printing 100% poly and poly-blend fabrics. We use poly white plus a barrier gray when under-basing 100% poly and we use poly white plus a standard low-bleed white when under-basing blends. We drop our oven temp and cure time, and we are careful not…
We recently ran a pre-production sample print on this 100% cotton fleece boxer. Our client was most concerned about achieving a clean print over the seam. Done. However, we received a complaint that the ink was cracking at the point of the seam. We didn’t have any of Rutland’s new Endurance Plus ink on hand…
More and more tools become available to give customers what they want. You want a soft print on a fabric that had dye migration problems and it also has to stretch and by the way, keep it bright white? No problem. Well… usually there are some compromises, but you have to deliver at least close…
