Image Armor Pretreatments - When and Where To Use Them
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- In this video we take a look at When and How to use all of the Image Armor Pretreatments from the LIGHT shirt formula to the DARK and ULTRA. Within each of these products, we look at when we would use them on 100% Cotton , 50-50's and blends, as well as 100% polyester fabrics in White, Light Colored, Dark, and Black colored fabrics.
I’ve watched this no less than 10 times and learn something each time. This is the BEST video I’ve ever seen about when and how to use pretreat liquids. Very informative. I wish I could hit like each time I’ve watched and continue to watch this.
Glad it was helpful!
@@ImageArmorPretreatments thanks. I love Image Armor but sometimes get a box around black/dark shirts. Any tips on how to keep the pretreat from staining black/dark garments.
This is probably the best and most informative pretreatment video on UA-cam. Great job cowboy!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Maybe I missed it... but do you guys have a pre treat solution that works for both white and black shirts?
There is no true universal PT based on the science behind how it cures the ink, with WHITE ink being the main deciding factor. If you are printing white ink, you would use either out ULTRA or PLATINUM. if printing on a white garment with no need for white ink, you would use IA LIGHT.
I feel like I just completed a semester of DTG training 🤯.
Glad you enjoyed it! We want to provide GOOD information that helps people achieve their goals! Hope that your business is going well.
Does this mean I should save my file format to CMYK? I have been struggling to print on all darks. I have image armor ink and PT, with an F2100.
The best files for DTG are 300DPI RGB PNG's. The RIP will do the color conversions for you.
On the yellow shirt 10:35 you have white in the design why didn’t you use dark PT? I understand that’s most likely because it would cause staining, and I’m also sure that’s why you wrote specifically it’s a white highlight (only the top layer is white and not the base)…. But I’m a bit puzzled as I have the Epson F3070 dtg printer and with this new fast printer It does the white and color in one pass…. Therefore I don’t exactly have the ability to do an only white highlight layer… what would you advise I do? I feel I am missing something?
Ps: since the printer is very fast I use the ultra (gels quicker)
At that point in the video for the fluorescent green we did utilize ONLY a white highlight and CMYK print. That was printed on an Epson F2100. Your driver or RIP should allow you that option to NOT print the white underbase but still print the CMYK and highlight white - however I am not familiar with the Epson F3070 interface to tell you how/where. i.e. you are just DROPPING / Not printing the white underbase but still printing the white highlight and CMYK at same time. Hope that helps!
Do you need to ventilate the area you’re using to pretreat well? We’re using the viper mini to apply the pre-treatment to the garments. We’re in back office of a retail store so we get the air circulation in the room but don’t know if that’s good enough. Another concern is when we heat press the garment after treating it also.
Proper ventilation should be considered, but it's not a major issue if working in a small room long as it's not airtight. The Viper MINI does a great job and keeping the spray are precise.
What is meant by cure time?
Cure time typically for pretreatments is how long you need to heat set the pretreatment to fully dry it making it ready to be printed on. Inks still need to be heat cured and that would be a printer manufacturer cure time information that is specified by the printer ink manufacturer.
Hi, we are interested in becoming a dealer from your pretreatment Image Armor Dark Ultra. We are a store located in Santiago de Chile, Chile. We are focused in online local selling and have 5 years in the DTG industry. We currently sell Epson parts for dtg industry and want to add your pretreatment due to several of our customers are demanding the product. Please if you are interested give us a mail to talk about it.