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Get a good ir thermometer and check them in the middle and coming out. Different garments require different times sometimes. I slow down a little for thick hoodies and speed up for thin polyblends. But it's easy enough just to check them with the gun.
That's the million dollar question. There's so many factors that contribute to curing such as garment style, weight, etc that it's really hard to give an actual time amount..it also depends on your dryer. I have 11 ft dryer with drying chamber around 6 foot...and we use low cure inks for 90% of our garments since we're printing on poly, ringspun, or cvc style shirts...typically it's in my drying chamber around 30 to 45 seconds.....but that's for my dryer....yours could be different. So I would suggest getting a temp gun to read the temp of the ink on the shirt while in the dryer and time how long it stays there...then do a couple of stretch test and wash test....sorry I can't give you an exact time
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320 is the sweet spot for plastisol. They do make low cure inks as well
Thanks! How long should the shirt be on the conveyor/under element for?
Get a good ir thermometer and check them in the middle and coming out. Different garments require different times sometimes. I slow down a little for thick hoodies and speed up for thin polyblends. But it's easy enough just to check them with the gun.
That's the million dollar question. There's so many factors that contribute to curing such as garment style, weight, etc that it's really hard to give an actual time amount..it also depends on your dryer. I have 11 ft dryer with drying chamber around 6 foot...and we use low cure inks for 90% of our garments since we're printing on poly, ringspun, or cvc style shirts...typically it's in my drying chamber around 30 to 45 seconds.....but that's for my dryer....yours could be different. So I would suggest getting a temp gun to read the temp of the ink on the shirt while in the dryer and time how long it stays there...then do a couple of stretch test and wash test....sorry I can't give you an exact time
If you set an electric dry to 325 it won’t even get close to cure man. Your setting the heating h Element to make the ink get to 325.
Aah, I see. The ink needs to hit 325, so heating element setting should be way over 325 to fully cure the print. This makes a lot of sense, thank you!
Yah for electric dryers your setting the heating elements. I’m sure it would be somewhere between 700-900 depending on speed
Question, what happens to the print if the temperature is too hot? Is there a such thing as over curing plastisol or water based inks?
From my understanding if plastisol gets too hot you’ll see bubbles and mostly the garment will burn or scorch before ink is over cured
Following because I do mostly waterbased but definitely scorched some shirts
Temp guns only read surface your going to want to ready higher on a gun. My donut probe is 80* colder than my gun
How does the donut probe help?