Team,
In my never ending quest to find a good emulsion, I decided to try the
"Image Mate" PC-701 emulsion. I had have great success with a dual cure
products, but I was/am looking for a simpler premix, ling life system with
fast exposure for the UV unit. Their description below was a homerun:
PC 701 is not only one of the fastest exposing one-parts, but it's the
highest solids content emulsion you'll ever use! The extreme solids content
of 52% allows you to use minimal coatings for half- tone, white base, and
high density printing. Designed for the textile printer, it has excellent
resistance to plastisol inks. Caution: PC 701 is fast! Testing has shown PC
701 to expose more than 3 times faster than other SBQ emulsions - great for
fluorescent units!
I tried it and it was a real fast exposure time (for a UV fluorescent unit)
and cut the time in half! Unbelievable...but, I found that on 158 and 196
screens the image would blowout during the washout. 110 screens were
perfect. The second oddity was the reclaiming. I purchased the EZSolve dip
tank system to make life easy in the reclaiming department. This PC-701
product is doing something very odd, it is coming off the screens in sheets.
it is like a second skin removing. It is very messy cleanup after the
reclaiming process. I am having a hard time trying to look at the clean up
verses the fast exposure, but the high screen mesh problem is almost the
nail in the coffin.
The Questions:
* Is anybody using this product?
* Is there an alternate washout process I should consider for high mesh
screens (w/PC-701)?
* Has anybody experienced this same reclaiming phenomenon?
* Can anybody recommend another emulsion to try? (I'm still searching, but
recently purchased a test quart of DZ-307 to see what that is all about).
* What is the deal with high solids? I know we reviewed this in GP-101 but
I have no clue.
-Joe Russo
RussoCustomTees.com
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