{"id":39,"date":"2012-05-29T21:45:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T21:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blankstyle.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2021-09-05T02:58:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T09:58:48","slug":"the-basics-of-screen-printing-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blankstyle.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-basics-of-screen-printing-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basics of Screen Printing (Part Three)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This installment of our Basics of Screen Printing will inform you about water-based inks and the comparison of water-based versus traditional plastisol inks.<\/p>\n<p>Water-based inks are composed of water (as suggested by the name) suspended with pigments to create color. Designs for water-based inks can be printed on cotton, polyester, or poly\/cotton blends. Colors in water-based inks are seen to be more vibrant, and can provide a softer, more sunk-in feel for the design printed on the shirt.<\/p>\n<p>When properly cured, water-based ink printing can survive many trips through the washing machine. Here is an example of a water-based ink print:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i49.tinypic.com\/5escwi.jpg?&lt;\/p\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The disadvantages of water-based inks can be that they are more difficult to cure than conventional plastisol inks. Improper handling of water-based ink prints can cause un-dried or mis-dried prints. These prints require a larger heating capacity than standard plastisol. Water-based ink print applications can also only be used on a small selection of mediums such as 100% cotton, and poly-cotton blends, whereas plastisol can be used in larger varieties of material including wicking fabrics. Also, the<\/p>\n<p>When choosing the variety of inks for your t-shirt application, you have to make in-depth decisions in regards to the feel, the texture and the opacity of the coloration. When you have come to a consensus with these decisions, you can furthermore learn to choose which ink is best for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This installment of our Basics of Screen Printing will inform you about water-based inks and the comparison of water-based versus traditional plastisol inks. Water-based inks are composed of water (as suggested by the name) suspended with pigments to create color. Designs for water-based inks can be printed on cotton, polyester, or poly\/cotton blends. Colors in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[7,10,9],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-printing","tag-screenprinting","tag-t-shirts","tag-waterbased-inks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blankstyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blankstyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blankstyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blankstyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blankstyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blankstyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blankstyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blankstyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blankstyle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}