Your go to emulsion for halftone work

[Rockers]

Which one is it, what are you using for all your halftone needs? I was hoping there is a good one from Murakami.

[Printficient]

There is a phenomenal one from Xenon.  Nova.  Designed as a high detail emulsion.  I have not seen one better.

[Rockers]

I think we will give the Murakami SP-9500 a try. Easy to get. Would  love to try the Xenon but I doubt you have a distributer here in Japan. But feel free to send me some samples. We generally order a lot from the States but this time we a short on time. But yeah samples are welcome.

[JBLUE]

Photo Cure Pro is much better than the SP 9500. 9500 is a little tougher to get out the low percentage dots where Photo Cure Pro washes right out. That has been our experience with the two.

[Prosperi-Tees]

Photo Cure Pro is much better than the SP 9500. 9500 is a little tougher to get out the low percentage dots where Photo Cure Pro washes right out. That has been our experience with the two.

How's it hold up to discharge?

[Rockers]

Photo Cure Pro is much better than the SP 9500. 9500 is a little tougher to get out the low percentage dots where Photo Cure Pro washes right out. That has been our experience with the two.

The Photocure is not available in Japan, that`s one of their products made specifically for the US market. Same for the SP-7500 which I originally wanted to order.

[Colin]

I loved the photocure pro, especially on week light sources.  I used it for years. 

Right now I am using Polycol S from Kiwo, which is a single part emulsion.  It has realllly nice resolution capabilities, but only 38% solids.  Which is great for high mesh counts, but takes and extra coat for low mesh.

I think a great question to ask is - What's available in Japan right now?

[ericheartsu]

I really like the nova. Not a huge fan of the price. but the zero issues with detail, or breakdowns on discharge make it worth it.

[alan802]

We don't try to hold 3% 65 line halftones so HVP as a pure photopolymer and a strong light source has worked well for us.  If we added the diazo I know we could do even better with the detail but we get enough out of the HVP straight out of the bucket.  We've used the Polycol S that Colin mentioned and it will hold some very fine detail, but since moving to higher solids pure photopolymer we've given up some of that detail capability for faster exposure times. 

[Parker 1]

CCI WR-14

[tonypep]

Switching to this. Should be able to xpose @60 sec/units

[ZooCity]

Aquasol HV all around.  Holds more than enough detail for us although the dual cures can definitely take it over the top if that's what's needed.  Ulano's Proclaim and Kiwo's Polycol Z always impressed me, I'm sure each emlusion mfg has a great dual cure for high detail. 

I don't see a need for the crazy fine detail for printing on most fabric, there's a point of diminishing returns.  Flatstock and transfer printing is a whole different situation however.   Where it gets interesting, in my opinion, on fabric is that other emulsion characteristics come into play aside from ability to hold detail.  The Polycol Z I mentioned has an insane RZ value and sharp/hard squeegee blades will glide over it like butter on a hot griddle.  Factors like this make the difference sometimes.  If the stencil holds it but you can't consistently get it down on the substrate...well what's the point? 

[Parker 1]

Switching to this. Should be able to xpose @60 sec/units

WR-25 exposed @ 112LU  (Later found that it should have been around 160)
WR-14              @ 56 LU

[dirkdiggler]

Switching to this. Should be able to xpose @60 sec/units

WR-25 exposed @ 112LU  (Later found that it should have been around 160)
WR-14              @ 56 LU

on my msp 3140 it still exposes slow.  180ltu

[JBLUE]

Photo Cure Pro is much better than the SP 9500. 9500 is a little tougher to get out the low percentage dots where Photo Cure Pro washes right out. That has been our experience with the two.

How's it hold up to discharge?

Not very well. It is not meant for that.

Right I am testing Kiwo one coat. Been through about 4 gallons. I like how it is working so far. Great detail and exposes super fast even with Diazon on our 3140.