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jcrawfordx

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Printing on latex sheet
« on: July 16, 2014, 03:29:39 pm »

I'd like to be able to imprint full-color artwork onto sheet latex to create fashions something like the picture below.

I envision feeding a roll of sheet latex through some sort of wide-carriage ink jet printer that might employ solvent inks.

This would be a very small scale production. It might entail only printing a few yards of latex per week.  Start-up budget is limited.

Can anyone explain how this might be done and suggest some suitable "beginner" level printers and inks to start playing with this?

Thanks!

(I think this fashion might be from Atsuko Kudo, but am not sure.)
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Ernst Dinkla

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Re: Printing on latex sheet
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2014, 05:35:39 pm »

Outsource it to a shop with a flatbed printer? Solvent or if they exist a flatbed latex printer. Feeding latex through normal roll (to roll) printers may be difficult due to the elasticity of the medium. A few yards a week is at most a hundred meters a year.

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Re: Printing on latex sheet
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2014, 08:15:34 pm »

Doing a search on "DTG Printers" (direct to garment) might help you.
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