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Offline blue moon

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Waterbased crystalina or similar. Any suggestions?
« on: August 29, 2016, 03:04:50 PM »
we have a job that calls for white print with some glitter flake in it, but needs to be done with waterbased ink.

What's a good ink to get?

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Re: Waterbased crystalina or similar. Any suggestions?
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2016, 03:16:51 PM »
others will most likely have a better answer, but i believe matsui and virus have inks like this.
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Re: Waterbased crystalina or similar. Any suggestions?
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2016, 03:53:49 PM »
I have never seen a waterbase crystalina..the mesh required for the flakes would be a mess.. you may have to run a DC white and the greenest crystalina you can find then educate the client on whats available. 
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Re: Waterbased crystalina or similar. Any suggestions?
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2016, 04:12:37 PM »
Matsui make some bomb metallic water base
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Re: Waterbased crystalina or similar. Any suggestions?
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2016, 05:45:29 PM »
cool..I thought he said crystalina..those are glitter flakes.. but good to know on the metallics..
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Re: Waterbased crystalina or similar. Any suggestions?
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2016, 06:25:28 PM »
is there a clear waterbased gel I can print over the large flakes? We could mix the glitter into the clear and then overprint to seal it. Would that work?

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Re: Waterbased crystalina or similar. Any suggestions?
« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2016, 09:07:36 PM »
Matsui has a glitter base with RB code.  Works great for large flakes (even up to .008 through a 38 mesh]...

The base evaporates off in the dryer leaving an awesome hand.

You need to get polyester crystals, as the metallic will tarnish.

Also... If you're doing these on 50/50s, you'll want a bleed blocking base to make sure you don't get dye migration into the base/binder

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