screen printing, what's best? plasticol or waterbased?

[gavtheoldskater]

the other thing i thought of regarding permaset is that, and upon the advice of steve as well, you need to use an emulsion that can cope with waterbased inks. i did some Ts when i first picked up some permaset aqua using a screen prepared with murkami emulsion that i'd always used and after 30 shirts the screen was losing fine detail. anyhow, i'm now working through a pot of dzwr and although much harder to strip off the screen than murkami (i just used an organic emulsion remover on that) the resiliance to ink is excellent and the quality of the screen in terms of fine detail and edges) itself far superior.

[GoldRapt]

That's good to know but for me and what I'm planning to doat the start, some vinyl cut out as a mask will do.
How many items in a run do you do with permaset and is it only t-shirts or have you tried other substrates?

[COMA]

screen printer 4-1.jpg Here it is

[GoldRapt]

Looks good, didn't it come with a table?

[COMA]

nope. but you can set it on any table with 4 plugs

[gavtheoldskater]

we do runs of Ts up to 30, i don't really do more than that in one go mainly because we dry with a heat press and although i can knock out 30 shirts in hardly any time the drying is 2m20s each shirt (at 150deg).

i've used permaset aqua on cotton, canvas, paper and lycra. permaset permaprint on wood, paper, vinyl and plastic bags - and with those i scrunched the print up as nastily as i could and there was no flaking, cracking or anything.

have a look on youtube, there's some clips of it being screened onto different materials.

[GoldRapt]

yes, i have just started using permaset inks both the aqua (fabric) and permaprint (paper/board ink)...................

supplier steve-wood.co.uk who are super helpful,

Hi gav, I rang steve woods and bought a starter set of the permatione.
I gave your name as the referrer, from this thread.

[Greg]

I'm with the waterbased camp. I'm not really into the look or texture of the plastisols