Screenprinting Polyester and other Synthetic Materials

By Bill Hood

Subjects: polyester, textile, screen printing, printing, Bill Hood, silk screen

Description: Cloth woven from a blend of polyester and cotton can look and feel so much like 100% cotton that many screenprinters are tempted to print these blended materials with the same ink, and using the same printing technique and dryer settings that they use to print all-cotton cloth. Like all things – printing on polyester is not that easy. There are times when you are fortunate and the printing turns out fine. Then out of the blue, a problem occurs – the dye of the cloth begins to migrate up into the ink color. Actually, this dye migration is much more common than might be thought. This book will help you with a bit of knowledge about polyester and some techniques, which will lesson the migration.