https://www.badbillys.com/tags/screen-printing/Recent content in Screen Printing on BadBillys.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenBadBillys.comTue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.badbillys.com/post/plastisol-puff-print-dating-skate-tees/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.badbillys.com/post/plastisol-puff-print-dating-skate-tees/ <h2 id="how-plastisol-ink-reads-on-a-garment-physically">How Plastisol Ink Reads on a Garment, Physically</h2> <p>Run a thumb across the graphic on a decades-old skate or surf tee and the ink itself will often answer half the dating question before the tag does. That's because plastisol — the ink that dominated garment screen printing through the skate boom years and still dominates it today — is chemically built to sit differently on a shirt than most other print methods. <a href="https://totalink.com/learn/plastisol-ink-for-screen-printing">Total Ink Solutions</a> describes plastisol as PVC resin particles suspended in a liquid plasticizer: a formula that doesn't dry by evaporation the way a water-based ink does, but instead cures — meaning the resin particles fuse together and bond to the garment — only once the print is heated to roughly 320°F. Below that temperature, plastisol stays liquid indefinitely, whether it's sitting in a bucket, loaded on a screen, or already printed on a shirt.</p>