A T-Shirt, Four Months, 350 Degrees
Almost four months ago, we printed shirts for SharePoint Saturday in Atlanta, Georgia.
Oddly enough, one of the shirts found its way into the darkside of the dryer for the past four months. As you can see, the once navy shirt is far from navy. This shirt is now completely brown, but wildly, it's a very, very consistent brown. I'd think it would have significant color variation from being folded and crunched of the last four months, but it doesn't seem to be. The brown is very constant. Having known no different, I would have said it was a brown shirt from the start, it looks that "good."
It clearly was torn to shreds after months of light belt friction and heavy, 350 degree heat hitting it for 40 hours a week over 16 weeks.
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Discharge On An American Apparel 50/50
Here is a recent print on American Apparel's BB401 50/50 in black aqua. This was a five color discharge which ordinarily would not be recommended on a 50/50, but it worked for the look of this line was going for.
Since discharge only works on cotton and not polyester, only half of the fabric in this shirt was dischargeable. The end result is generally a very muted, "dirty" discharge look.
Discharge Tie Dye Shirt On A Black American Apparel
This is an example of our discharge tie dye effect on a black American Apparel. Since it's tie dyed, every shirt is bound to look a little different. Pretty sick look!
1150 Miles Later...The New Dryer Has Landed
With the growing demand for our waterbase and discharge ink, we felt time to make an major equipment upgrade in the shop. A dryer is the last major piece of the printing puzzle and we wanted to ensure the highest quality product available while keeping our production from being being too backed up.
This new upgrade is a gas powered dryer, rather than it's electric counterpart. Not only is gas more efficient to operate, but it's also a cleaner burning source of energy than electricity.
The first week of Febuary we traveled from Orlando up to Alabaster, AL to pick up this new monster. We had 1150 miles, 67 gallons of gas and 20 hours round trip, all knocked out in one long day! We had to take a saw to the crate which housed the dryer to fit it into the trailer, but we were used to that. U-Haul gives trailer dimensions, but fail to give the door dimensions to get into the trailer.
Overall, it was a very smooth trip, just a rather long day. Here is a picture of the new dryer installed.
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