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Offline mk162

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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2017, 03:06:38 PM »
I personally HATE and I mean HATE using ink cards for ink.  I prefer a metal putty knife with the edges rounded.  I've had guys leave these cards in a gallon of ink before.  What a mess.


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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2017, 03:08:25 PM »
Same

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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2017, 03:29:38 PM »
I get them from Graphic Solutions and usually bundle them with other supplies or vinyl for the free shipping


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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2017, 03:44:14 PM »
I should have added, these cards are amazing for emulsion. 

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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2017, 03:50:31 PM »
for ink cleanup out of screens, 3" paint scrapers with the corners rounded. For other uses, we buy cardboard and cut it with our guillotine... If you don't have a guillotine, a large paper cutter will do just fine.

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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #20 on: February 07, 2017, 04:10:12 PM »
I use misprinted business cards. Got about 6000 or so still. Surely everyone has some of these going thru various trade printers.
This is what we do as well...Had a misprint of 10,000 cards that luckily my supplier stood by and replaced so now we have 10,000 ink clean up cards for FREE although we typically use the spatulas to remove ink from the screens.

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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #21 on: February 07, 2017, 05:32:18 PM »
I use a spatula to remove the ink from the screens but then keep a clean up card with each gallon of ink that I use to scrape the ink off the spatula. It's a lot easier and cleaner than just wiping the blade on the edge of the bucket. Then your lid gets messy, you grab it and get ink on your hands, etc.

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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #22 on: February 07, 2017, 07:14:33 PM »
I stumbled across a gal who's husband prints plastic credit cards and gift cards.... I traded her some blank shirts for a couple thousand misprinted gift cards. These are stiff plastic ones and work great to remove ink from a 20x24 screen. I keep an empty bucket near the press to collect the dirty cards... then I put the bucket in a lab oven to cure them before throwing them in the trash.

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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #23 on: February 07, 2017, 07:49:26 PM »
I use the metal putty knife paint scraper with rounded edges for white ink in the screen, but the ultimate clean up cards work fine for every other ink and emulsion and whatever else you could need a card for in your shop. Hard to justify cutting your own when the finished cards are like 2 cents each.

I use to buy blank credit cards from somewhere and they were like 4 cents each. I did like those a lot, but the cleanup cards work just as well and are easier to hold without getting ink or emulsion on you since they are bigger.

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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #24 on: February 07, 2017, 08:35:02 PM »
We use spatulas from Spot Color Supply.  They work great and you only need to buy them once!
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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #25 on: February 07, 2017, 09:29:55 PM »

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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #26 on: February 08, 2017, 06:57:59 PM »
Putty knife
Simply take some 400 grit sand paper and break the edge and the corners and you can use them forever and they clean up easy too.
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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #27 on: February 08, 2017, 07:15:44 PM »
I personally HATE and I mean HATE using ink cards for ink.  I prefer a metal putty knife with the edges rounded.  I've had guys leave these cards in a gallon of ink before.  What a mess.


I was going to mention that but thought I was the only one disgusted by it. Plasticizer leaching into cardboard is gross.

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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #28 on: February 08, 2017, 07:18:10 PM »
That doesnt happen unless you leave the cards in the ink for days though.  I just clean and toss in about 5 minutes.

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Re: Where do you get your ink cleanup cards?
« Reply #29 on: February 08, 2017, 07:27:20 PM »
That doesnt happen unless you leave the cards in the ink for days though.  I just clean and toss in about 5 minutes.

The joys of having employees. No one wants to fess up either.

Also not a big fan of chucking any more waste than necessary.

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