What is up everybody Matt with Mikey Designs it's a beautiful Saturday today
we've got a little bit of time to finally do that ink review the day I
finally get a chance to do this review they're having a kid's birthday party
right in the coalsack we have an all-in-one ink coming up that you can
print on cotton 50/50 mix and 100% polyester will show you what ink it is
and we'll see how it works out we're gonna do some test prints let's go ahead
and dive into it
welcome back everybody so here are our test subjects we have a 100% cotton
next-level t-shirt we have a 50/50 blend in Bella canvas and a 100% polyester
sport texture we have our screen all set up on press and what we're going to use
is a print that we've done before to do Shannon the shop gnomes apron I washed
out all the ink from the screen use a little bit of screen opener to clear
open the mesh I think we're good to go so here's our artwork here is the
company that provided the sample it is one stroke Christy Morgan got ahold of
me apparently they're a family-owned business which i think is great this is
an all-in-one ink it is there in P dry fit white but he said it is meant for an
all-in-one ink for cotton 50/50 mix and polyester here is our technical data
sheet we are using a 156 mesh and we're going to cure it at about 330 degrees
she says that you can kind of overheat this one and won't
an issue so let's give it a try okay gang so we have our little ink spatula
and here is the ink the NP dry fit white all I did was break the seal the little
tape that they had on it my first initial reactions are it looks pretty
creamy here's a matter little spatulas I reach over the camera which barely fits
into this little sample container but I mean that is excuse me I got low off
camera there but I mean that is super creamy I mean very very very creamy so
we're going to go ahead and load some of this up on press I'm just kind of mixing
it up a little bit just to kind of loosen the inka and I will say that this
is probably the previous ink I have ever worked with I mean this is super creamy
guys it is almost like working with cool whip
so I'm going to set this aside okay gang I've got a little bit more of
an over-the-shoulder kind of view got my squeeze you ready to go I'm going to put
down a little spray tack and my flash is over there to the side by now you guys
hopefully know what a flash is and we're going to just go ahead and load this
shirt up you use my lint roller just to give this a fair shot now I do believe
this meshing though the instructions say a 1:58 as your your highest count I
believe that this may be 195 so if it works with the 195 then I'm sold up me
knows I might just buy a gallon of this stuff so we just went ahead and flooded
it and by the way we do have about it's probably about an eighth of an inch
contact also contact excuse me and there's our first hit looks pretty good
the color of this white is pretty white I don't see too much of a tint to it so
there's our first hit I'm going to go ahead and send it over to the flash and
I'm going to let this flash for about eight to ten seconds I'm going to bring
it around my hands are a little dirty from messing with these screens but I'm
just gonna flash it until it is tacky we use a hand that's a little cleaner
looks like it needs a flash a little more my flash is that full tip my
pallets aren't warmed up so it's taking a little longer to flash off okay
hopefully I don't get it alright I think we are good to go
let's go ahead and hit this with the second print stroke I'm doing a lighter
stroke here just making sure I clear the mesh
it looks pretty good looks pretty nice I'm going to go ahead and take this off
and throw it into the conveyor dryer so here we go here is our first print
because it is a 195 mesh and not a lower mesh count like a 110 or 156 which is
for me this is a bright enough white but looks pretty nice alright let's move on
to the 50-50 blend seems like it's still tacky enough we have our Bella canvas
50/50 blend give it a little bit of a lint roll make sure we give these guys a
good fighting chance right and also something that's kind of occurred to me
because that was my first print that the ink really isn't quite flowing through
the mesh just well enough and let me try increasing my squeegee pressure so that
way it's a little more upright or angle excuse me not pressure
there we go there's our first hit looks like any first hit when it comes to
white using a mess count like we are so I sent this over we're flashing it real
quick now that my palette is nice and warmed up it did take the usual time
about eight seconds so that's pretty good that's great to know
I'm just gonna kind of share this one off a little more make sure we
completely clear our mesh and it looks pretty awesome I'm going to go ahead and
toss it on the conveyor dryer I'm gonna go ahead and wipe the bottom the screen
I did notice with the second print that I'm starting to lose a little bit of my
details it's kind of a antique type look that we have going on here and because
it is really creamy some of those details were starting to close up just a
little bit but for polyester use I think this still works fantastic
perhaps I just need to reduce my squeegee pressure so here is our second
print on the 50/50 still looks like a nice bright white but you guys can
probably see that some of these little details are starting to close up which
is why I have it on a 195 mess to begin with but hey I might be hitting it too
much and flooding the print out so okay and for the test that everybody's
probably been waiting on the 100% polyester we have our 100% sport tech so
st 350 t-shirt
going to load it up on the power
we have to excuse the screaming kids in the background I kind of think it's
hilarious no you guys are trying to learn this is a product review okay I'm
just go ahead and hit it I wipe my screen just kind of get my
detail back I'm going to give it a little bit lighter pressure we'll see
how it works
oh that looks great that's just with one hit all my details are there I didn't
have to press too hard and that looks that looks pretty great I'll give you a
close-up of it here in a second so here we are again a little bit of a
close-up of the first hit I just flooded it once
kind of looking over it I might need to the pass on it again just to fill some
of the nits here but it looks great alright I'm gonna go back and clear my
previous stroke so just hit it once okay that looks great
cleared nicely filled now I'm going to flash it okay we're all nice and flash
make sure I'm still in view here okay look pretty good nothing's coming up
it's still nice and decking let's go ahead and do our second hit
Wow okay that looks really great I'm gonna bring this in for a little bit of
a close-up okay here's our second print on press keep in mind that this is with
a 195 mesh and it looks really great it is a nice bright white the detail held
up this time kind of adjusted how was going about praying this Eve because I'm
used to really thick stuff I don't know I think I might be sold guys this is get
excuse me I'm trying to get the exposure just right but this is I don't know I'm
happy with it I think I might switch over I'm going to go ahead and take this
off of the pallet and run it through the conveyor dryer got my temp gun I'm gonna
show you what temperature I have this coming hot at just like we're at well I
probably could have sped that up a little bit but man it's 402 coming out
need to turn my temp down so it is curing a little higher than I wanted to
I know I might have to do a separate test and get my temperature just right
maybe nuts let's let it stand how about that Wow
it has a nice soft hand film which I kind of would you know with polyester
printing on 100% polyester you generally get a flatter print and this looks
absolutely great Phil's grade the ink build up isn't too thick perhaps it's
because of the 195 mess that I was using and it looks
like it didn't change color who knows maybe tomorrow I'll come back
and take a look at it see what it still looks like let's see how it does when I
try and stretch it a little bit yeah that looks great
we are with that stretched out it's not cracking or anything like that which I
really wasn't expecting a tooth it's supposed to do what it's supposed to do
dance I definitely cured the shadow that's for
sure I'm going to go ahead and run off a second print of the cotton just because
I feel like maybe I didn't give it that great of a chance with it being the
first print I'm gonna run another one off and I'll show you how it comes out
so here are the final results and my thoughts this is the second print that I
just did on the 100% cotton shirt again I'm using 195 mesh perhaps if I had to
use the 156 or even a 110 they would be even brighter but oh not too bad here
was our our first print not too bright of a white perhaps it is because the ink
wasn't quite flowing through like I should because it was our first prep get
these guys out wait here is our 50/50 t-shirt
looks fairly bright again could be my match selection
and last but not least the one I'm most curious about and this looks great
hundred percent polyester sport Tech t-shirt nice bright white it has a nice
hand to it I don't know guys I'm thinking I may switch over to their poly
ink pretty easy to work with pretty creamy
Shannon the meatloaf I mean come check out these print samples let me know what
you think too although she's not going to get on camera
give her opinions I'll report back Shannon the shop tone kind of approves
so that's it guys I'm impressed with how creamy it is and how well it worked on
the polyester jury's still out for myself when it comes to using it on my
cotton shirts but who knows let us know what you guys think leave a comment
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