Wilflex Fashion Soft Base

[Rockers]

Can that base be used as stand alone base + pigments or do I need to add the Fashion Soft base first to another base like the Epic mixing base and then add pigments. Printing on white tees.

[ZooCity]

My best advice is to not use it all, run waterbased.  Fashion Soft base has too much fibrillation for me after repeated washings and is hell on earth to print wow.

[Jwcontractscreen]

It is a stand alone base. Nothing but pigments required.  We did some prints with it adding maybe 2% PC black to it. We achieved a tone on tone look with great feel. We do more discharge than fashion soft. Even with mixing a real black, it turns more charcoal after washing. It is a real nightmare getting it back in the container, it acts like water on the screen. Worse than any water awe or discharge I've ever used.

[jsheridan]

My best advice is to not use it all, run waterbased.  Fashion Soft base has too much fibrillation for me after repeated washings and is hell on earth to print wow.

It's a mess to print on anything under a 230 mesh.

For those that are not setup to print WB or choose not to, its the next best thing.

We use it quite often for what we call 'vintage base' has a very soft feel, allows the shirt to show through and requires nothing special other than some pigment added to it.

[jvanick]

is that the same as wilflex softhand clear?

we use that with a few grams of 'pfx black' thrown in to make a transparent gray that we sometimes put over 'flags' to make them look wavy.  other than it being really liquid, it works pretty well.

ignore the out of registration of the black layer on this:

[Colin]

The biggest difference is the viscosity change between fashion soft and soft hand.

After that is is printing technique.  Fashion soft (and other bases like it) as stated above, looks and feels best when printed through 230+ mesh counts with a hard sharp blade.

None of the "super soft hand bases" wash very well.  Lots of fibers still come loose.  This is why you will see black on white end up looking grey after a few washes.  As stated above.

[jsheridan]

we use that with a few grams of 'pfx black' thrown in to make a transparent gray that we sometimes put over 'flags' to make them look wavy.  other than it being really liquid, it works pretty well.

THAT is wicked cool bro! great use of a 'specialty' ink