Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
So, the white pigmented discharge ink that I use, produced by Matsui under the name Discharge White, works by laying down a layer of white while discharging underneath the white, so that you get a nice bright white on most garments with one pass, leaving a soft white print. I ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
I've heard reports that royal blue shirts just don't discharge well. I had never tried them myself until this week, nor had I seen pictures.
A client ordered shirts to be sent to me without talking to me first about his shirt color choices, which was fine, but six shirts were ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
That's what I did today, for fun. This is a design that Hawkwind, psychedelic space rock band, used in the 70s. This is a yellow-pigmented discharge print done through a 180 mesh.
Mixed discharge has a shelf life. It's composed of a binder, like a clear ink of medium ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Printing red on black garments is tricky with waterbased inks. If a printer lays down a layer of opaque white WB ink, then tries to do a layer of red ink on top of the white ink to get a red design on a black garment, the white will ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
When I do something like a four color print, of "RC" or spot colors, any non-opaque ink, on light colored shirts, my method is to load a shirt on every platen (the pallet onto which I print the shirt), do the first color on all the shirts, while passing the ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Discharge ink works by removing the dye from cotton fibers, creating the design by removing color instead of adding it (although you can pigment the discharge and add color when discharging).
But what happens if you discharge a 50/50 blend, that is, 50% cotton, 50% polyester?
When I did my first run ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Using discharge ink without pigments has various results in the resulting color. Gildan black and American Apparel black generally discharges slightly off white. Jerzees black in style 363 is between light tan and darker tan depending on the size of the shirt, as apparently they use different black dyes ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
If you can't use a screen with a mesh count higher than 156 with discharge, then you can't get real detail, can you? Incorrect!
How can you get fine detail with a 156 or even a 123 mesh screen? Proper burning. When I started, I shined a 150 ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
There’s a limit to the amount of detail that can be had when printing discharge. Discharge ink, which is a mix of a base ink and a very small amount of a powder agent, contain solids that will clog a screen with time. I use Matsui DSPS waterbased discharge, and ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
I will be covering screen printing topics generally, and specifically waterbased and discharge printing.
I will base posts on my current work and questions that I receive from customers.
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