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screen printing => Equipment => Topic started by: RICK STEFANICK on October 15, 2018, 10:28:21 AM

Title: INK SCALE
Post by: RICK STEFANICK on October 15, 2018, 10:28:21 AM
What ink scale are you mid size shops using. We are going to be mixing all water base and plastisol using base and PC's. Thanks in advance
Title: Re: INK SCALE
Post by: Frog on October 15, 2018, 10:37:08 AM
The question will arise of what are your typical volumes, to establish the range you will need.
For small amounts of ink using pigments, you'll need one that goes way down.
Myself, I still love A&D, .but for the really small quantities I sometimes mix, it would not work with pigments.
Title: Re: INK SCALE
Post by: RICK STEFANICK on October 15, 2018, 11:03:46 AM
Probably within .05 of a gram. mixing mostly quarts of discharge and gallons of plastisol
Title: Re: INK SCALE
Post by: ZooCity on October 15, 2018, 06:30:51 PM
The Sartorious model that plays with IMS 3.0.  Ours runs down to 0.01.  A scale that reads a true 0.01 and has a capacity that can mix a gal of plastisol costs a good grip more than most scales going to hundredths but have lower capacity.  Worth it for PC mixing small qty imo.
Title: Re: INK SCALE
Post by: blue moon on October 15, 2018, 07:23:07 PM
The Sartorious model that plays with IMS 3.0.  Ours runs down to 0.01.  A scale that reads a true 0.01 and has a capacity that can mix a gal of plastisol costs a good grip more than most scales going to hundredths but have lower capacity.  Worth it for PC mixing small qty imo.

this if you can swing it. I've seen used ones go in a reasonable range. I bought Zoo's when ours died.

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