Printing on Dacron

[Colin]

My customer is supplying the Dacron material for this job.

I just did a small test print, and the ink blead out like I crazy. I used a LBV (light weight banner) profile.

Any idea on how to get this to work on my SP540i, or is this a job for a UV printer?

 

[iSign]

silk screen

 

[Colin]

Ya? Hmmm. No way at all to get the printer to do it eh?

 

[P Wagner]

Not your printer. Dacron is a derivative of PET, so a direct disperse ink may work, but not solvent ink.

 

[Colin]

Ok, thanks guys. Another lesson learned in the mine-field of digital printing.

 

[Cleggy123]

Did you ever solve the problem of printing on Dacron with a solvent printer?

 

[P Wagner]

Did you ever solve the problem of printing on Dacron with a solvent printer?

The 'solution' would be a coating applied to the media. Unless someone is putting a coating on the Dacron to make it printable with solvent inks, and I have never come across one, the answer is that you can't print on it using solvent ink.