Can anyone recommend a printable garment film for my HP 330 Latex?

[Hugh Potter]

Hi Darren,
I have a latex and haven’t tried textile films as I was led to believe they weren’t too long lasting.. if you do a lot of hi-vis it may be worth considering a cheap A4 ricoh subli printer, the colours will be a little overpowered by the yellow but I’ve never had a customer moan about it!

[Darren Summers]

[quote="Hugh Potter"]Hi Darren,
I have a latex and haven’t tried textile films as I was led to believe they weren’t too long lasting.. if you do a lot of hi-vis it may be worth considering a cheap A4 ricoh subli printer, the colours will be a little overpowered by the yellow but I’ve never had a customer moan about it![/quote]

Hi Hugh,

I hear ya. The trouble is, a lot of the logo’s we do are coloured logos which is no good with a sub printer.

Customers tend to go through Hi Vis like no tomorrow so not overly worried about the prints last ing ages (although i hadn’t heard that myself – we’d done loads of printed garment film jobs with our eco solvent machine)

[Iain George]

I think it is the garment films that don’t work with latex inks but are fine with the solvent ones.

[Hugh Potter]

quote Darren.Summers:

quote Hugh Potter:

Hi Darren,
I have a latex and haven’t tried textile films as I was led to believe they weren’t too long lasting.. if you do a lot of hi-vis it may be worth considering a cheap A4 ricoh subli printer, the colours will be a little overpowered by the yellow but I’ve never had a customer moan about it!

Hi Hugh,

I hear ya. The trouble is, a lot of the logo’s we do are coloured logos which is no good with a sub printer.

Customers tend to go through Hi Vis like no tomorrow so not overly worried about the prints last ing ages (although i hadn’t heard that myself – we’d done loads of printed garment film jobs with our eco solvent machine)

Hi Darren,

I think (as Iain says) it’s the inks not lasting too well on garment films rather than films themselves.. if you find a latex specific garment film that works well, I’d be keen to know what it is!

Hugh

[Andrew Weaver]

Hi Darren,
Just incase …. have you tried using normal paper app tape that you would use for vinyls lettering ?
I use that when doing logos on nylon k-way stuff.
Although I don’t have latex machines… !!
Still worth a try.
Another option if the logos are going on white garments could be to try the transparent flex where you print on the glue side and don’t use app tape !!
I know Hexis and Digiprint do this type of product and I am almost sure others will do too !!
If you find a way would love to know for the future 🙂
Good Luck
Andrew

[Darren Summers]

Hi all,

I did find a Latex compatible film. It’s called Stahl’s Digital Colour Sports Film and is sold by All Print Supplies. Here’s a link to the All Print product page for more info:
http://www.allprint.co.uk/stahls-cad-co … inting.htm
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I can report that the material prints very well on our HP330 Latex. It also cuts well and the application tape (also a Stahl’s product) works very well too.
10/10 from us.

[Hugh Potter]

quote Darren.Summers:

Hi all,

I did find a Latex compatible film. It’s called Stahl’s Digital Colour Sports Film and is sold by All Print Supplies. Here’s a link to the All Print product page for more info:
http://www.allprint.co.uk/stahls-cad-co … inting.htm
(Sorry – the link styling failed for some reason)

I can report that the material prints very well on our HP330 Latex. It also cuts well and the application tape (also a Stahl’s product) works very well too.
10/10 from us.

Thats great to know Darren, I’d be interested to hear how the prints last longer term.. Please do update in due course 🙂

Hugh