Ask your ink supplier for the retarder and also get a water spray bottle to mist the flooded ink every few strokes.
Keep the screen flooded after every print stroke and keep a bucket with a mason sponge (get at home depot) handy to wipe the screen of any dry ink. Waterbase is pretty simple to print once you learn to keep it wet. Good luck! John Sheridan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 3:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SE-List] Water-base inks are killing me! I am a big believer in plastisol. I love it. My new client wants water-base. I asked around and thought I had every area covered, until I actually started printing. I live in Arizona where the humidity is nearly zero. I printed some of the stuff at night and it went ok. It dries REALLY fast in the screens. I tried printing in the day and couldn't even get past four shirts before the ink was dried in the screens. Now I'm trying to get it out and the water just isn'e cutting it. Anyone out there have advice? much appreciation in advance! amy Flyer Graphics Tempe AZ _______________________________________________ Screenprinters mailing list [email protected] http://mailinglist.screenprinters.net/mailman/listinfo/screenprinters _______________________________________________ Screenprinters mailing list [email protected] http://mailinglist.screenprinters.net/mailman/listinfo/screenprinters
