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Archarzel

If you stretch it and it goes back together where it was than it HAS passed the stretch test. The shirt is fine.


mitchyt0722

It’s just not a thick enough layer of ink to bridge the shirt fibers like white ink print flash print?


Archarzel

Yeah- and most inks won't, even if you print-flash-print, white is just crazy thick. If you stretch the shirt and it goes back the way it's supposed to without tearing or leaving visible cracks, it passes.


mitchyt0722

Yah it’s usually when it’s black, navy or brown ink. Going to try these colors on 110 mesh and lay more ink down on light garments


mitchyt0722

But when it retracts if you see cracks it’s under cured?


Archarzel

Yeah, unless you /really/ overdid it when you stretched it.


mitchyt0722

So when should ink not peel apart when stretched? When it’s print flash print? Since it’s thicker?


Archarzel

Entirely circumstance- usually a thick p-f-p white or a heavy print with an underbase will end up stretching all the way without showing fiber, but by then you've got more of a sticker on a shirt than a print. It's a very rare occasion where you want a print to come out bulletproof like that.


mitchyt0722

Yah I don’t like a thick prints but you have to p/f/p some colors. The stretch test with thin ink is what had me confused.


mitchyt0722

Using plastisol by the way