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September 21, 2015 at 6:12 pm #2545
I’m looking into getting a pantone “pigment” mixing system and contacted several ink companies to ask for samples.I contacted One Stroke Ink, Wilflex, Excaliber, and Rutland. One Stroke Ink sent me a 4oz sample of their Low bleed white ink within 3 days. Wilflex sent me 2 pints of 2 different white inks that they make that arrived in about a week and truthfully the delay was caused by UPS delivering to the wrong house. It’s been 2 weeks since contacting Rutland and I never heard back from them so obviously they are no longer on my radar. Excaliber was contacted last week on Thursday and was very helpful but their ink hasn’t arrived yet. One Stroke Ink is extremely creamy and prints very nicely. Wilflex is a little bit creamier but I havn’t had a chance yet to print with it and obviously Excaliber hasn’t been tried yet cause it’s not here. But at this point I think I’ll be going with Wilflex as the ink is very creamy and their price is “very” good for a 15 color pigment mixing system. With Excaliber you have to put your own kit together as they don’t have a ready made kit for pigment systems. Excaliber DOES have a ready for use kit that is very reasonable in price but I want to go with a pigment system.
Hope this info is helpful to someone.September 22, 2015 at 12:13 pm #2547That low bleed white ink sounds pretty interesting to me. Did you notice if their was less dot gain with it? Wondering if its especially good for printing underbases.
September 22, 2015 at 3:21 pm #2551Actually there was a bit of dotgain with One Stroke Ink. About 2 pixels worth. I’ll be trying the Wilflex next and one of the inks they sent me is also a low bleed type ink. I’ll post my results after I try it.
October 19, 2015 at 6:08 am #2648Well I finally tried all the samples I received and the results are in (for me at least) the samples from Wilflex (Epic Quick White & Epic Amazing bright White) were both good inks. the amazing bright white white is as it’s name suggests “Bright” either would make a good underbase in my opinion. I tried the One Stroke ink a second time and it turned out a lot better (I must have done something wrong the first time) though it was not quite as bright as either of the Wilflex inks it was very creamy and covered good. I liked the Wilflex ink enough that I bought their pigment mixing system as that was my goal, to decide which brand to go with. I loved the One Stroke ink as well however, their mixing system was a bit out of my price range. I never did hear back from Rutland so I have no idea how their ink is. BTW I haven’t had any problems with dye migration with any of these inks.
October 19, 2015 at 12:18 pm #2649Thanks for the info Lee! So I’ve never had to buy a mixing system but I do remember using that Wilflex mixing calculator for PC back in the day. I think you could get it to calculate how much of a certain color you would need based on your artwork and how many shirts you would be printing so you wouldnt mix more than you needed and gave you the exact weight instead of just a percentage. Do you know if that comes with when you buy that? I cant find that info. Am I totally wrong in remembering that Wilflex was the one who made that calculator?
December 8, 2015 at 3:34 pm #2722Hey Casey
Sorry I disappeared for a while there Holidays have hit me hard with sublimation work. As far as the mixing calculator goes you can download one from Wilflex website “polyone.com” I think. ICC also has one but theirs is web based and I’d rather have it on my computer. It tells you how much ink to mix up for the size of the graphic you’re printing and also allows you to save any custom color recipes you might come up with.
BTW if you ever get a pantone mixing system I can definitely recommend the one from Wilflex, they have really good ink….including the low bleed white that they make. -
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