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The plasticisers are being swallowed up by the resins.Think of a desert. The resins are thirsty when it gets hot and they drink the plasticisers.When this occurs. There is no GOOD way to fix the ink. You can add a lot of curable reducer and maybe some plasticiser.... but you will loose opacity - you will loose flash parameters - you will only gain SOME printability.Truthfully, your best step is to set the ink aside and wait for a replacement bucket.
To avoid this, is there a better time in the year to order our white ink? Like try to stock up and avoid ordering in June-July-Aug?
So, what temperature is the "danger zone" for ink? This thread has me wondering about our own ink storage... in Florida, no a/c in the shop. At what point does ambient heat start altering the desired ink chemistry?
Quote from: ZooCity on October 28, 2016, 12:21:02 PMFYI, we tried Legacy and thought is was garbage. Turns out it's either inconsistently produced or like others mentioned it doesn't store well. After seeing that half of the printers in another thread on here were seeing "good" characteristics and half were seeing "bad" we had our distro send another bucket and it was fantastic. The first sample we got had all the terrible characteristics you are describing. Were it not for this consistency problem we would probably run this ink in our shop much more often. Chris, have Mark send you a gallon of the low bleed lava. We helped tweak on this formula for a couple months prior to them finalizing it. We used to run quick white, then switched to legacy as most of the time it performed really well until we had batch issues. But the low bleed lava I feel is a better version of the best batches of legacy with the consistency that wilflex is known for. We've gone through about 40 gallons of low bleed in the last few weeks and its been working really good here. We can run the stroke speed from 8-10(full speed) and the ink drops through the mesh nicely. If you like the good batches of legacy and have had good luck with quick white then the low bleed lava should be a great option for you. I have been getting lots of emails/texts from shops that are really digging it.
FYI, we tried Legacy and thought is was garbage. Turns out it's either inconsistently produced or like others mentioned it doesn't store well. After seeing that half of the printers in another thread on here were seeing "good" characteristics and half were seeing "bad" we had our distro send another bucket and it was fantastic. The first sample we got had all the terrible characteristics you are describing. Were it not for this consistency problem we would probably run this ink in our shop much more often.
looks like a wilflex brand with ryonet packaging..
Quote from: Prince Art on October 31, 2016, 10:21:01 AMSo, what temperature is the "danger zone" for ink? This thread has me wondering about our own ink storage... in Florida, no a/c in the shop. At what point does ambient heat start altering the desired ink chemistry?We're in South Florida and routinely have white ink harden up on us during the summer. This year it was a few One Stroke varieties as well as Synergy white. Took us a bit to figure out what was going on, but starting next year we'll be storing our pricey white ink in the air conditioned part of the shop throughout the summer months. A good rule of thumb heat-wise is when it starts getting pretty uncomfortable for you, its probably getting uncomfortable for the ink as well.