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Offline 3Deep

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top ink purchaesed
« on: October 14, 2011, 11:05:07 AM »
what are top 4 colors of ink do you use/buy

for us its
Black
white
Red
Royal Blue

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Re: top ink purchaesed
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2011, 11:18:33 AM »
Top 4 for us would be (in no particular order):

1) white
2) Athletic Gold
3) Royal Blue
4) Black

Honorable mention: Vegas Gold... we've been going through a bunch of it lately.

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Re: top ink purchaesed
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2011, 11:25:20 AM »
Bears Navy
White
Black(recently)
Dallas Scarlet

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Re: top ink purchaesed
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2011, 12:32:49 PM »
white
black
scarlet red
light blue
navy
royal
golden yellow

This past year I've been going through gallons of liquid silver, customers love that stuff!

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Re: top ink purchaesed
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2011, 01:17:04 PM »
white

white

red

highlite white
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Re: top ink purchaesed
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2011, 01:31:12 PM »
white

white

red

highlite white

similar to Homer . . .

everyday white
mixing white
black
mixing yellow ('seems like it is in every color we mix, just think about it, any green, gold and shades of red have it.)

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Re: top ink purchaesed
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2011, 01:34:01 PM »
I do not buy ink so this is based on my clothing sales......

White by a huge margin....
Red and black.....
All the rest hardly matter....

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Re: top ink purchaesed
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2011, 01:50:47 PM »
just purchased some wilflex EPIC red a month, it's like water and gets real hot -real fast,. . .plus the opacity is very low. maybe I ordered the wrong thing, Loving the Buffalo white though - LOVE it. . .
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Re: top ink purchaesed
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2011, 01:56:42 PM »
Black
White
Brite Red
Process Blue
And I buy these in 5gal.

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Re: top ink purchaesed
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2011, 02:02:32 PM »
White, buy a ton.  We use 10 gallons of white to every 1 gallon of black, and it might actually be 12 to 1. 

White
Black
Bright Red
Royal Blue
Golden Yellow
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Re: top ink purchaesed
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2011, 02:22:00 PM »
It's really hard to say what I buy most since I have so much ink.

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Re: top ink purchaesed
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2011, 04:42:53 PM »
just purchased some wilflex EPIC red a month, it's like water and gets real hot -real fast,. . .plus the opacity is very low. maybe I ordered the wrong thing, Loving the Buffalo white though - LOVE it. . .
Not to get off track too much but give the Epic Sprint a try. Its only for 100% but I am loven it.
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Re: top ink purchaesed
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2011, 05:00:52 PM »
We,ve bought so much white it ain't even funny...since I got the beveled squeegie from Sonny we have been laying some white ink and to my surprise its not a big bullet proof print.
  I,m still thinking though white and black ink is the main buy for everyone, if your printing one of those colors are going down 95% of the time.

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Re: top ink purchaesed
« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2011, 07:13:29 PM »
we buy in 5 gal pails too,, my bucket of black lasted me over a year, I used triangle batman black - it's flat, not a gloss so it looks like a wb print -really sharp. . .just went to another Epic flat black, should last me a long time. I think a lot of it too is mesh count, if we print black, it's a 230 or higher. white is usually 160-230, we don't go through nearly as much ink as most you guys but 5 gal of white is about 3 months.

D - what white are you using now?
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Re: top ink purchaesed
« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2011, 07:22:47 PM »
I don't like buying in 5 gal.  No matter how good we stir and mix it up, by the time we get down to the last gallon, the ink is junk and I don't like dealing with it.  I buy gallons and the ink remains consistent and there are never any surprises.
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