Anyone using Union Brite Cotton White PADE-1027 ?

[Frog]

I got a gallon shipped in error and am wondering whether it's worth a try or just return it?
Pros, cons?

[ebscreen]

Was my favorite manual white for years.

[Frog]

Okay, I'll try it, but it's way higher than the Street Fighter I currently use, but still, I'm sure, less than what many pay for their favorites.

BTW, Laura at Beckmar is giving me a deal since I'm saving her the expense of returning it. She treats me well and, though a day longer shipping than local,  has become my Union supplier.

[alan802]

I'd say it's superior to SF by a good margin.

[Frog]

I'd say it's superior to SF by a good margin.

Don't forget that I'm printing manually Alan. Adjustments and compensations for different ink characteristics can vary from auto to manual.
Then again, I know that something is likely being sacrificed to sell a white ink at less than $40 a gallon. I suspect this stuff will be pretty nice, but I was also going to look into the new cotton white from IC as my next try.

[mimosatexas]

My favorite manual ink is expensive, but when I try out cheaper options I am quickly reminded why I happily pay more.  If I was doing enough volume where the price was eating me alive, I would find a way to make something else work, but I just love my current white so much.

Triangle Poly Excel in case anyone is interested.  Never bleeds on anything, super smooth, no ink flinging around, mats down great, etc.  I have tested maybe 12-15 whites and the only other one I really liked as much was Bravo Flex, but not enough to pay even more than the Poly Excel.

[Screened Gear]

Union cotton white prints as easy as any other color ink manually. It was my only white for many years. With all the 50/50 blends now I use legacy LB. I only like having one white. The cotton white manually is a dream. It is not sticky and you don't have to modify it ever. Out of all the inks that one has a nice smell, like I'm the only one smelling inks.

[mimosatexas]

Big part of why I like the poly excel. No bleeding on blends and comfort colors but prints like any other ink color. I can pretty much one hit it through a 135S, underage with 150S or 180S, or do top a top white through a 225S or 280 with 55lpi with zero modification and it prints like butter

[tpitman]

Union cotton white prints as easy as any other color ink manually. It was my only white for many years. With all the 50/50 blends now I use legacy LB. I only like having one white. The cotton white manually is a dream. It is not sticky and you don't have to modify it ever. Out of all the inks that one has a nice smell, like I'm the only one smelling inks.

Agreed. Since most of what I do anymore is contract (sort of) I get too many 50/50s to use a cotton white, but Bright Cotton White was my favorite for a long time. And IC's Legacy White is my standard now.

[noortrd]

Triangle excel poly is better than Wilflex poly white?

[screenxpress]

Andy, its the white I've been using for years  - manual

[Frog]

Laura did tell me that it had a problem period of growing pains a few years back when most inks were reformulated, but it's supposed to be all worked out now.
I go back to 1988 when the Union Cotton white I had could be compared to chaulk. It was nasty! For years I was an all Union shop except for white (and some Wilflex pigments)
I went International Coatings for a long time, then the Rutland Streetfighter, and now I'm looking forward to trying this out.
It would not be the first time that a mistake has resulted in good fortune. (But I was a little shocked when I went to open what was supposed to have been Black!)
Twas good indeed that I had a couple of days leeway on my need for the dark stuff.

[screenxpress]

(But I was a little shocked when I went to open what was supposed to have been Black!)

Lol, I imagine!

[whitewater]

we use the 1030 white. i think its a step up from the one you got.

ive used it on manual first then auto.

[Frog]

They certainly have no shortage of whites!
http://www.unionink.co.uk/products/complete-product-listing.aspx

Even those just for cotton offers a variety.