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Offline jvanick

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Re: Best way to compare white inks side by side
« Reply #30 on: April 09, 2015, 07:31:20 PM »
quick review...

thus far, on a 150 shirt order, we are very happy with how the Production White is running.

to set things up correctly, we run a 10c sportsman, RedChiliD flashes, S-mesh and 70/90/70 squeegees... this order was on standard Gildan 2000 shirts.

This job is a PfP, 160S mesh underbase, 225S top white...  we've run this before with Quick White (unmodified), and we're running this with Production White unmodified as well.

Upon opening the bucket, this ink is definitely creamy and very easy to stir.

On press, it performed very nicely as well.
-- we had some opacity issues at first... until I sped up the squeegee to what I felt was SUPER fast, however, it was shearing nicely and the fiber-matte down is perfect... squeegee pressure was comparable to quick white at 35-40psi...
-- prints were just as smooth if not a bit smoother than the quick white...
-- flash time was definitely faster...  we normally flash at 200 degrees with quick white, we were at 190 with the production white, and we could have possibly gone even less... after running about 50 shirts, we were around 2 sec for the flash time...

we're going to continue testing, but so far we really like it.


Offline Robert Clark

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Re: Best way to compare white inks side by side
« Reply #31 on: April 10, 2015, 08:38:18 AM »
Jvanick,

   As a first time user of OSI, it looks like you had a great experience from opening the bucket till end of the production run. Always good to hear !

Thank you for sharing !   
Robert Clark
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Offline Maxie

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Re: Best way to compare white inks side by side
« Reply #32 on: April 16, 2015, 12:30:27 AM »
Java nick,
You mention a 70/90/70 squeegee, do you have rubber on your pallets?
Maxie Garb.
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Re: Best way to compare white inks side by side
« Reply #33 on: April 16, 2015, 08:01:39 AM »
yes, we have rubber on our pallets...

I'm really liking the 1st print and onwards quality of this ink... with our Quick White we used to have to stroke a few times to get it moving, and/or slow the squeegee down for the first few prints ... we threw a job on yesterday and the first stroke was a perfect clear, surprising actually.. it almost prints like a hybrid between waterbase and plastisol.