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Offline inkstain

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Re: What ink mixing system do you use?
« Reply #15 on: September 08, 2012, 09:29:57 PM »
Hope this screen shot helps

Thanks man!  This could change a lot for me!


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Re: What ink mixing system do you use?
« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2012, 09:33:30 PM »
Rockers, you're in Japan right?  I'd go with the PC as a gallon of that stuff lasts forever.  Less shipping cost.
That's right,
A German in Japan.
Fortunately enough Wilflex manufactures as well in China so the shipping will be even lower.

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Re: What ink mixing system do you use?
« Reply #17 on: September 08, 2012, 10:03:15 PM »
Inkstain and Prosperi-Tees:

Use the Alt White Plate formulas for your opaque mixes.  They are more accurate....

The other will be very very hit and miss for color...
Been in the industry since 1996.  5+ years with QCM Inks.  Been a part of shops of all sizes and abilities both as a printer and as an Artist/separator.  I am now the Ink and Chemical Product Manager at Ryonet.

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Re: What ink mixing system do you use?
« Reply #18 on: September 08, 2012, 10:27:30 PM »
Thanks Colin!

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Re: What ink mixing system do you use?
« Reply #19 on: September 09, 2012, 03:46:51 AM »
What I really want is something that is really opaque, not sorta see through.
Plastisol ink.


Wilflex MP formula ( I believe that's 'multi-purpose', but I've never actually heard what it designated ).
Nice opacity.
The only downside is the PC ( their designation ) mixing system uses too many pigments.
GNS inks use the same calcs for mixing, just different bases.

They've since changed the name. Used to be MP base.
They now call it 'amazing base'...which is kinda funny, but, it is a good base...don't know about amazing..

I've used it for over 10 years, and it still gets the job done on all sorts of substrates.
Use a white polymax base if you're printing on that sort of sh..stuff.

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Re: What ink mixing system do you use?
« Reply #20 on: September 13, 2012, 03:41:03 PM »
What is Wilflex's wet on wet base like? Is it as good as QCM WOW?
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Re: What ink mixing system do you use?
« Reply #21 on: September 13, 2012, 06:58:20 PM »
Thanks guys for all the info.
I ended up going back to what I used to use about a year ago... Union Mixopake.
Kinda sucks cause wholesaler near me stopped distributing it.  So had to go another route.
One thing I know with the Mixopake is that it's really opaque.
Cheers!