Water based ink clean up

[kurmis]

I have just been trying out my new Nazdar 2700 series inks with 230 white mesh screens. At work we only use plastisol inks for textiles, so printing on flatstock is new to me. I figured screen wash was universal so I tried using the CPS A6 screen wash pictured below, but it didn't work so well. I then tried using dish soap and water and it worked fairly well, but it left a light ghost layer of ink in the screen. I repeated the step, but the faint image still remains. Does this always happen with water based inks? Should I just use straight dish soap? It's not bad enough where the screen needs to be hazed or anything. Any suggestions?

Also...

Can you get as precise registration on flatstock with a vacuum table as you can on a T-shirt press working with textiles and spray adhesive?

Thanks in advance!

[danstiles]

TW washes out with Formula 409 and water. Not sure about Nazdar.

[squeegeethree]

I'm really surprised that the A6 isn't working for you. It works fine with everything we use...TW WB, Union Aerotex, Norcote UV, Nazdar Oil-Bassed.
Do not use water with the A6. When cleaning up the TW WB we first hit it with a hose, then scrub it with Fantastic and a softscrub pad, then anything that's left we clean up with A6. But I admit the A6 works better on a dryish screen.

[squeegeethree]

Oh and you should have just as good of results with your vacuum table as your t-shirt press, it just may take you a while to get used to the paper growth and shrinkage issues.

[8ball]

In my experience, it happens as far as the "ghost image"...

but that's just me...

have you tried printing with the so-called "tainted" screen yet? You might be surpised by the results...a good litmus test...