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We were using it for a year or so where I work now. It performs really well and has really good detail hold with a fast exposure time. For waterbase/discharge you can add Diazo. It's non Ryonet name is TX Texcharge from CCI. What you are buying now is the Texcharge emulsion without the diazo.Drawback: it tends to stick to the glass after the exposure unit warms up and it sticks really bad with coated LX mesh. The emulsion also has a tendency to pull the image off of inkjet films at the same time the emulsion sticks to the glass of the exposure unit.35% relative humidity, strong dehumidifier, and making sure all screens had proper time to be fully dry have not helped.Otherwise I liked it!
http://www.ccidom.com/download.php?id=937. This is what the HI-FI is in CCI. If you like the Hi-Fi you should try Saati Chem PHU. 50% solids really close to the Hi-Fi. Water base and discharge without a hardener.$49 a gallon or $180 for 4 gallons. The CCI product with hardener started breaking down with waterbase on me.
Quote from: sben763 on May 08, 2013, 11:00:35 PMhttp://www.ccidom.com/download.php?id=937. This is what the HI-FI is in CCI. If you like the Hi-Fi you should try Saati Chem PHU. 50% solids really close to the Hi-Fi. Water base and discharge without a hardener.$49 a gallon or $180 for 4 gallons. The CCI product with hardener started breaking down with waterbase on me. The above product is available here.... http://shop.spotcolorsupply.com/Emulsion_c48.htm
CCI rep named Robert came here last month, left me a gallon of CCI HXT emulsion to try. gave me diazo for half a gallon, so I split the bucket, Diazo in one half straight coated the rest. This, for us, is our new all around emulsion. With Diazo, amazing, did a test run, 40 psi wet on wet discharge, double strokes 500 piece run, zero wear or break down on a "non diazo" screen set up with the HXT. No hardener either. We just loaded up on a nice stock of it, won't need the diazo. Been running discharge jobs on the auto all week, no more hardener, no more post exposing, fast non diazo exposures. Also, for us, perfect imaging when running screens through our I-Image CTS. This emulsion to me is as good as the nova that I had fell in love with, but, like I said, no diazo. Now maybe if I had a 10,000 piece run, those don't come around very often if ever for us, I would think about the diazo or hardener. But 1,000 piece, over the seem prints all day, no problems, under 50 bucks a gallon at that. 80 23x31 screens coated 2 over 2 with the round edge from a gallon of the CCI HXT for me. Love this stuff!!!! I probably wouldn't have tried it since I really loved the Nova, but Tonypep was adamant on the use of CCI emulsions for discharge, I'm glad I gave it a chance!
Thats correct Jon. I returned 4 gallons of aquasol once I tried the HXT recomended by my cci rep. Love it man no diazo, no hardner, great stuff for our system.
Just a reminder for all parties interested here. The strength of th ebulb comes into play with what emulsion is viable in your shop. With my Nuarc 3140 (1200 watt metal halide) I know Diazo is not for our shop. Exposure times will be 200-400 light units....Even the great single part emulsions out there are not created equal when it comes to light source.... the stronger the light source, the better.Tried the Saati PHU and my bulb is definitely on the week side for that emulsion. Other shops I know that use it have 5-6K bulbs and they get 5k plus impressions out of a screen.Oh, the VPR is extremely difficult to reclaim btw.Remember to qualify your results by giving us your specs!!!
Quote from: Colin on May 09, 2013, 11:16:36 PMJust a reminder for all parties interested here. The strength of th ebulb comes into play with what emulsion is viable in your shop. With my Nuarc 3140 (1200 watt metal halide) I know Diazo is not for our shop. Exposure times will be 200-400 light units....Even the great single part emulsions out there are not created equal when it comes to light source.... the stronger the light source, the better.Tried the Saati PHU and my bulb is definitely on the week side for that emulsion. Other shops I know that use it have 5-6K bulbs and they get 5k plus impressions out of a screen.Oh, the VPR is extremely difficult to reclaim btw.Remember to qualify your results by giving us your specs!!!Are you saying a 1000K light and a 5K light will burn the screen differently? I understand the 1K would take longer then a 5K (if they both worked the same, shutter or no shutter units) but your saying the emulsion itself will last longer with the 5K over the same exposure on a 1K. (by "same exposure" I mean they both fully cured the emultion it just took the 1K longer)I have a hard time believing that, if that is what your saying. By the way I have 3 screens coated with CCI HXT right now. I will treat it like its just a normal Aquasol screen and see. If it does like screenprintguy said, and I hope it does, I maybe trying a bucket or two this month.