Hi guys I'm Summer at BELLA+CANVAS wen get a lot of questions about which of
our tee's work best with discharge ink discharge ink is a water-based ink that
works best on dark garments and gives it a soft hand feel whether you're new to
screen printing or just want a deeper dive this video is gonna give you
everything you need to know about discharge printing before we get started
I just want to give you guys some info about a few things in our fabric dyeing
process and the reason our t-shirts perform so well with a variety of inks
especially discharge ink we only use high-energy dyes which are high-quality
eco-friendly dyes that are resistant to discoloration won't fade in the wash and
have excellent color fastness meaning the ink will actually adhere to the
shirt without any issues plus we never over dye our fabrics which as Cole will
explain is really important with discharge printing discharge printing is
a form of water-based ink that essentially bleaches the color away from
the garment it's intended for 100% cotton and on dark garments it's gonna
perform the best
so unlike plastisol which sets on top of the garment discharge is going to be
sinking into that fabric and essentially removing the color out of the garment
and replacing it with either a pigment that you put into the discharge or just
raw fabric color all discharges are gonna work the best on natural fibers
normally that means 100% cotton but on tri- blends we've gotten good results it
just looks a little bit more vintage it's not as opaque polyesters and the
rayons do not hold on to the discharge the discharge is only going to be
stripping the garment color out of the natural fibers
there's a lot of experience in figuring out how things will perform different
garments different amounts of ink and activator but one of the things we do is
we have a hack we've actually printed a color card so that we have a discharge
print on every single color that Bella canvas offers this allows us to show the
customer in-store exactly what they're going to expect so discharge printing is
a little bit more difficult than your standard plastisol discharge needs to be
cured at 320 degrees like plastisol however it needs to be cured for 60 to
90 seconds the best situation is for you to use a force air conveyor dryer which
is definitely a higher end dryer you have to evaporate all the air out of it
and complete the chemical reaction another thing is the activator that you
mix in to discharge is a one-time use and will be dead within about six hours
so always mix exactly what you need one of the biggest problems that we have
with discharge printing is over dyeing Bella Canvas has a policy of never over
dyeing so we always have great results and it's a very reliable blank over
dyeing is when a garment company has too much of a certain color and because they
want to not lose all that stock they'll over dye it this normally happens on black
garments so for example they have a whole bunch of nasty purple garments
they can't sell them and then they dye them black which makes them look normal
until you discharge them and all of a sudden you have like a light lavender
discharge which is obviously unsellable so if you get a weird result with your
fabric and you're not able to return the garments to the provider then what I
would suggest is putting a discharge base down and then putting another water
base print on top so you could do either like a high pigment water base or
there's also like acrylic water-based inks for example the comment line by Ryo
Net they have like a really nice opaque white water base which still has that
matte feel but it's gonna sit on top of your discharge and give you like a
guaranteed bright white instead of the discharge process
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there's any other topics you'd like to see its cover willing shirt agencies
info and the description and we'll see you next week