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screen printing => Ink and Chemicals => Topic started by: 3Deep on March 29, 2017, 11:28:22 PM
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Who has them and what colors do they come in
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Who has them and what colors do they come in
Apparently these guys do great glow inks.
Allure Glow
http://www.lightwithoutpower.com/Glow_in_the_Dark (http://www.lightwithoutpower.com/Glow_in_the_Dark)
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Who has them and what colors do they come in
Apparently these guys do great glow inks.
Allure Glow
[url]http://www.lightwithoutpower.com/Glow_in_the_Dark[/url] ([url]http://www.lightwithoutpower.com/Glow_in_the_Dark[/url])
I agree. They do. Very good ink.
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We just used some AllureGlow on a job and was fairly impressed. I will say the following:
1. their white during the day and glow at night ink wasn't good. Maybe it was a bad batch, but it had big flecks of glow in it that gave the final print a speckled glow. Their clear base is a much better bet.
2. It pops screens. I had 2 brand new screens pop while running a 400 pc job. I mean, split from side to side. either right where the squeegee started or ended.
3. It's the best glow ink we've used. It's the brightest, but we did find when we mixed some of it into the highlight white and then another hit of straight glow it really popped. And put the straight glow on thick.
On a side note, my customer didn't understand why the shirts had to be charged with light and is still insisting there is a product that glows without being charged. I thought she should patent that idea for light without electricity and make a fortune. I tried explaining it the best I could, but she just isn't getting it.
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That's good to know Brad, some customer's don't really a clue, they insist they know what they know and we should do it even if it don't exist, just had a customer tell us something like this about comfort colors after we told them these shirts can vary in colors from dye lot to dye lot, but I will keep the glow ink info you posted.
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I told her to set up an area with black lights to charge the shirts. But she still swears the ones from Target don't need any light to glow.
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We just used some AllureGlow on a job and was fairly impressed. I will say the following:
1. their white during the day and glow at night ink wasn't good. Maybe it was a bad batch, but it had big flecks of glow in it that gave the final print a speckled glow. Their clear base is a much better bet.
2. It pops screens. I had 2 brand new screens pop while running a 400 pc job. I mean, split from side to side. either right where the squeegee started or ended.
3. It's the best glow ink we've used. It's the brightest, but we did find when we mixed some of it into the highlight white and then another hit of straight glow it really popped. And put the straight glow on thick.
On a side note, my customer didn't understand why the shirts had to be charged with light and is still insisting there is a product that glows without being charged. I thought she should patent that idea for light without electricity and make a fortune. I tried explaining it the best I could, but she just isn't getting it.
What mesh were you using when the screens popped? Are you using the powder or their premixed ink?
We tried their glow pigment with a 150S, but the particles didn't like to clear very well so we dropped it down to an 86, and the result was much better. We had the speckling you describe with the 150. I think the particles are pretty abrasive and might be a little too much for thin thread.
Your customer sounds like a real pain... its just tough to communicate with some folks. Once charged the ink does seem to glow for a very long time!
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We were using a 150s for the highlight white and the final glow. We ended up switching to 110's that were lower tension.
Everybody here was laughing at how much it got under my skin that she didn't understand how glow in the dark works.
My wife and I were thinking she maybe meant reflective, but that still requires light.
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If you have some Glow in a dark powder you can always mix that with a clear base and overprint on a top of white or any other color.
I do have small amount and printed some on a white paper. It worked.
Still need tome free time to mess with it on the tees.
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Ger some Uranium 235 grind it up mix with ink bam always glow ink.