Wilflex Nupuff base

[Sbrem]

So, we have rush for tomorrow, and only puff base. I can't seem to find the correct ratio of white ink to puff base anywhere, does anyone have experience with that base?

Steve

[Orion]

https://sourceone.nazdar.com/portals/0/tds/Wilflex-NuPuffBase.pdf

Well shoot, That PIB won't help you.

Back in the day the Union product was 25% base added to white.

[Sbrem]

we tested, and it ended up 2:1, base to white. It was kind of gross, but the end user loves it, go figure.

Steve

[Frog]

After looking at the meager Wilflex  tech info, it kinda' appeared to me that this is truly a base meant to mixed with their various pigments for best results. Not like a puff "additive" for RFU inks

[Dottonedan]

Yep.  That’s what I understood last week. There is a Puff additive and there is a Puff base. The Base (from the spec given to me by Ray Smith at Wilflex/Union/Rustland/Polyone/Avient er whatever these days, was 20% puff base, 80% ink (for a puff screen).   I gather that the "additive” is to make things more opaque or slightly dimensional but not really puffing.  If I remember right.


BUT, like Sbrem,  we ended up with probable about 40% puff base added (before I was able to get that info to the ink mixer/printer).  For what we were doing and trying to achieve, it worked...but it still wasn’t all that extreme.  We currently have a small 8'dryer, so that may have played a role.

[Frog]

For what we were doing and trying to achieve, it worked...but it still wasn’t all that extreme.  We currently have a small 8'dryer, so that may have played a role.

I'm not so sure about that. My first few years I used a four foot Ranar Scamp dryer without even an enclosed tunnel, virtually just a panel suspended above a small belt. Puff was big then, and with the proper RTU inks from Union, it worked great!

[Sbrem]

Ours was extreme, to match what was already on the front. I prefer a suede base over puff, but we have no call for it at all...

Steve