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I print manually, using mostly Union inks, and a few International Coatings. Right now, I'm using Union's Bright Cotton White 1027, and am pretty happy with it.Black and many other colors are Union Ultra Soft. I add some soft base with them except for the few times I need a thicker ink to hold especially sharp, fine detail.I also use the Mixopake system.As for Poly, to take liberties with another quote, "Machete don't do poly white!" (except for Sport Tek PosiCharge)I need it so seldom, I don't bother. I am in the twilight of my career, and somewhat cherry picking what I do, and am more than happy if they go elsewhere. May not work for you.
Quote from: Frog on October 18, 2017, 03:50:05 PMI print manually, using mostly Union inks, and a few International Coatings. Right now, I'm using Union's Bright Cotton White 1027, and am pretty happy with it.Black and many other colors are Union Ultra Soft. I add some soft base with them except for the few times I need a thicker ink to hold especially sharp, fine detail.I also use the Mixopake system.As for Poly, to take liberties with another quote, "Machete don't do poly white!" (except for Sport Tek PosiCharge)I need it so seldom, I don't bother. I am in the twilight of my career, and somewhat cherry picking what I do, and am more than happy if they go elsewhere. May not work for you.Thanks for the info! What kind of curing times are you seeing with the Bright Cotton White and do you have to reduce it down at all Ive heard it can be a little to thick?
We are 100% manual here and my go to for white is Next Gen Cotton. I push it through good 155 or 156S mesh and it makes for an incredibly good and easy print. I am also a huge fan of the Next Gen Poly white. It is really great ink for a manual or auto. It may want to climb the squeege a bit but you will figure out how to keep it down on the blade. I highly recommend. As for colors we use alot of International coatings and QCM colors but we have been loving the Wilflex Top Score colors as of late on the temp sensitive garments. As for squeeges we are 75/90/75 on just about everything around here. Sometimes we drop down to the 65/90/65 on poly white. Good Luck...We need an auto so bad it hurts right now as I look at over 2500 pcs on my floor in the shop :-(
I am in the twilight of my career, and somewhat cherry picking what I do, and am more than happy if they go elsewhere.
Quote from: XG Print on October 18, 2017, 04:22:47 PMWe are 100% manual here and my go to for white is Next Gen Cotton. I push it through good 155 or 156S mesh and it makes for an incredibly good and easy print. I am also a huge fan of the Next Gen Poly white. It is really great ink for a manual or auto. It may want to climb the squeege a bit but you will figure out how to keep it down on the blade. I highly recommend. As for colors we use alot of International coatings and QCM colors but we have been loving the Wilflex Top Score colors as of late on the temp sensitive garments. As for squeeges we are 75/90/75 on just about everything around here. Sometimes we drop down to the 65/90/65 on poly white. Good Luck...We need an auto so bad it hurts right now as I look at over 2500 pcs on my floor in the shop :-(I'm surprised about the NexGen ink working so well, I have heard a lot of great things about it but mostly from Automatic users. Even on the NexGen site its said to work best at faster speeds. I have been calling NexGen for the last Two days on and off but cant get through to anyone Ive even sent a email and still NO response!! All my colors are From Wilflex Rio MIxing System.