printing on polyester flag

[harlequeen]

I have been given a Welsh Flag to print a couple of words on, in black.

I basically have one shot at it, so could anyone tell me what time and temp I should use. I will be using a Ricoh printer with Sawgras inks.

thanks

[Justin]

I'm assuming it's on the white section :-)

If I only had one shot I'd use vinyl, and have.

[mr-gobby]

Id probably do 185 and 50 secs if I were trying it but with only one shot yes it's a risk, I've done a flag before but as it needed multiple presses I went the vinyl route and that was difficult too! Don't like flags much as a result �� you won't need a lot of pressure at all if you do it with sublimation and will probably leave paper edge marks on it which will annoy you

[harlequeen]

Hi All,

I decided to go ahead and sub print - the flag is for a friend so I had a bit of wiggle room and I'm a bit of a risk taker (lol). I printed at 195C for 62 seconds and it came out fine. I printed above and below the dragon, so black on white and black on green and the green looks better - probably because of the darker background - made the letters darker and stand out more.

Thanks for the advice though. I had considered vinyl, but had left myself short of time to do it.

[logobear]

for text there will be very little difference between 180, 190, even 200 for 50 sec or 60 sec or 70 seconds
its not fine art!

[Justin]

My concern would have been the potential for ghosting if large text with the paper lifting but you've obv. done a good job :-)

I've done large vinyl images onto flags before, just tape the whole thing down and press in sections, works a treat!

[socialgiraffe]

You can always print a small black square and sub that in the corner as a tiny test. I have often done this with pro cycling shirts that I am often asked to do. Granted I can fold the thing inside out first, but normally there is always somewhere on something that you could sub something to test.

Glad it all worked though.