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Does anyone that uses Aquasol HV mix in daizo? We have been using the HV forever, but for WB and discharge we would use the 1400. The 1400 was nicer on the wallet, but I didn't care for the stencil thickness we would get with it for use with plastisol. I mixed in a thing of diazo with the HV and seems like the best of both worlds. Thoughts? Warnings? Have all the cool kids been doing this already?!
My supplier recommended a 1/2 load of diazo in the Aquasol HV, We're just getting into testing.
Quote from: Inkworks on April 16, 2013, 11:50:56 PMMy supplier recommended a 1/2 load of diazo in the Aquasol HV, We're just getting into testing.Post back when you have results. I'd be interested to see how it does. On Murakami's site, they say to add 25% to the exposure time if the diazo is added. In my experience with my Olec 5k light, exposure times for a 2/2 150S yellow mesh w/o diazo are around 28LU, with diazo the same screen would be about right at 190LU...so I think their data sheet might be a tad off!
Quote from: IntegrityShirts on April 17, 2013, 08:22:08 AMQuote from: Inkworks on April 16, 2013, 11:50:56 PMMy supplier recommended a 1/2 load of diazo in the Aquasol HV, We're just getting into testing.Post back when you have results. I'd be interested to see how it does. On Murakami's site, they say to add 25% to the exposure time if the diazo is added. In my experience with my Olec 5k light, exposure times for a 2/2 150S yellow mesh w/o diazo are around 28LU, with diazo the same screen would be about right at 190LU...so I think their data sheet might be a tad off!Might be your exposure unit. We are not even at 160 light units for HVP with diazo on a 1200 watt Nuarc. 90% of what we do with HVP is without Diazo. Long runs we add it in for piece of mind.
When you add the hardener without using the diazo, are you able to get long print runs out of it?
I'm about to do a white discharge run on a couple hundred expensive $5 shirts with some HVP without the diazo because Brian and Michael said they did over 2000 without diazo and just hardener without a screen failure. They better be right or they're going to get a bill for those shirts that I have to reprint if the screen breaks down . So we got at least 4 members who print discharge on HV/P without diazo right?