SCREEN PRINT ONTO NYLON

[AJLA]

Can you screen print onto polyester football type shirts?

[John G]

We have printed standard football shirts before using plastisol, think they were polyester - for nylon you'll have to get a 2 pack ink, sericol do one called nylobag. You have to mix the correct amount of ink for the job then add the catalyst - once the catalyst has been added the ink lasts approx 24 hrs and then needs to be discarded.

I'd get practising on t'shirts 1st though as a few knackered football shirts and your profit on the order has dissapeared.

Cheers John

[AJLA]

Hiya John, get practising... we haven't even had the chance to put the thing together yet not complaining mind i'm happy to be busy.
When things slow down we'll start practising, looking forward to it too.

We have a regular job with a sports shop and to be honest there's not a lot of money in it for us with, people in our town don't realise it's us doing the job so they go to the sports shop and he gets a cut so he's the lucky one doing nothing and earning a little for it to boot. I was hoping that we could screen print his jobs in the future.

[Tom Wiliams]

I would like to use my heat press to personalize nylon drawstring backpacks, insulated lunch sacks and polyester backpacks. I have read through many posts regarding the nylon drawstring bags. I would like to try something I saw in the posts - but have a few questions.

Someone posted that they used the Opaque transfer paper to transfer onto the nylon bag. I assume this is the dark transfer paper. My plan is to print kid's names on the bags - so I really want to find a way to create the transfers myself since they will all be different. If I print out some names on the opaque paper and try the heat press to affix them to they nylon - do I have to worry that my test will ruin my machine?

[TransferGraeme]

Tom

Just a note re your plans to print kids' names onto backpacks.

A lot of parents and schools are now strongly against this - indeed I have heard of schools actually banning backpacks, bookbags, etc with the childrens names on them - in line with their policies on "stranger danger"!

[accdave]

indeed I have heard of schools actually banning backpacks, bookbags, etc with the childrens names on them - in line with their policies on "stranger danger"!

Probably the same schools who have a deal with a local supplier to provide extortionately priced uniform, and then tell you that you have to put their names in them so they don't lose them