Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
I am wondering what kind of emulsion you have that is Xenon brand... As for the shipping I mentioned to Sonny that most of my suppliers give free shipping on orders over some $150 (WM Plastics) and others $200 is the limit. The free shipping is a good incentive to buy there products, I know some say they hike the original price but it looks the same to me.
I have used chromablue for years and have exposed probably 5K screens using it. It's a good pure photo emulsion that has done everything we ever asked it to do. We changed over to kiwo one coat for about a year then we have recently went back to the chromablue. It's a high solids emulsion, which I prefer an emulsion around 50%. I have more control over what I can achieve with my stencil thicknesses with a higher solids content. I can have a thin stencil if I want as well. The low solids content emulsions are difficult to attain a thick stencil with and not worth my time. I recently tried out a quart of the WM Plastics white ink and it has so much puff additive in it that it's ridiculous. I pfp'd our company logo on a few shirts, sent it through the dryer and the damn print was raised up about 2-3mm from the shirt. There was so much puff in it I thought my guys were playing a joke on me. And the opacity was not really that good either. You'd think with that much puff in it that the print would have been bright white and opaque, but no. Needless to say I was really disappointed with their white ink, it down right sucked.
Also, the difference between a $45 gallon and a $80 gallon is likewhat, $0.20 a screen or something? Not one of those areas totry and save money that is unless you're printing black on white shirtsall day long. (lucky)
Alan -are you back using QCM? I am throwing in the towel on the Xenon white. Too many problems to deal with, back to Quick white. . I heard One Stroke has a new white that is supposed to be for cotton AND blends, I may look for a sample. .