HSA inks on Royal Tees

[TCT]

We had counted Matsui out for the most part, mostly I was frustrated with their awful and confusing product naming. But there was a rep that came out and brought us some samples, we ran the HSA white on a purple shirt job we had set up. The sleeve prints we used the HSA white for made the front and back we had already printed look dull!

Anyway, the stuff is called "301W-CL" (ya, they still have work to do on the names! ) Used a 180S and then a 150LX, but we later printed another job with a 200S and a 180S. We would do a 2sec flash @ 212f and it was good. It does dry in the screen like a mofo though!

[ZooCity]

All the HSA's definitely beat plasti in terms of a fully bridged, finished print.  There's no real comparing the two, it's not even close in terms of hand and opacity.   Some of them just need 3 screens to get there. 

Alex, your description of the Matsui sounds typical to me.  The ink prints very opaque with two screens at a certain level of hydration, no additives, but dries aggressively.  So in goes the water and the open time extenders and retarders and out goes the opacity in varying degrees.  I think they just need to get the humectants figured out with this ink so we can print it thicker without being at full pucker on press.

[brandon]

We run almost all discharge and HSA now and reading others' posts temp and humidity does have a major role in this. Being we are in New Orleans our ink prints like butter. I can't imagine trying to print some of the half tones and multi color wet on wet jobs we do in Arizona or some place like that. But I will not lie we do not use any of our inks out of the bucket even the RFU's. They all get prepped before going to press.

[abchung]

FYI my printing environment stays at a humidity of 60% to 70% average.(when it rains it goes up even higher).
we can flood the screens for lunch for an hour then come back and start printing again.

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[bulldog]

This is a job we just ran, on royal next level 3600s

166: GG meteor white
flash
166: Sericol Red
flash
200s: GG Meteor White

It came out looking pretty great. I'll admit the picture makes the white pop a bit more, but in person it looks pretty great.

The job we were trying yesterday wasn't going to work with the two whites, due to it being SUPER blocky. Basically a "staff" print.

I saw this and then some comments about this being a HSA base? I thought Meteor White was plastisol. Comet White is WB but didn't think that was considered HSA?

Am I missing something?