Series 660 Pad Printing Ink

Printcolor 660 is a two component multi purpose ink for printing synthetic and natural textiles and fabrics.

Upgrade to Printcolor high performance Series 660 if you are using Sericol Nylobag NB or Nylotex NX, Marabu Maraflor TK, or Proell Noripol.

The official technical stuff from Printcolor
Printcolor 660 is a highly opaque, two component multi purpose screen or pad printing printing ink for synthetic fabrics, natural textiles and soft surfaces. The high quality of raw materials used in the formulation of 660 makes it suitable where extreme mechanical, UV or chemical resistance is needed.  It is based on different polyester and acrylic-resins that give it the stable gloss finish essential for outdoor applications.

A highly opaque screen printing ink for industrial and graphic applications on a wide range of synthetics like polyamide (eg nylon), polyester materials (eg trevira), and blended fabrics with both synthetic and natural components, mostly cotton. Series 660 is suited to most common fabric articles (bags, ties, umbrellas, etc.), textiles (shirts, overalls, sportswear), sun blinds, flags, pennants and sails.  Printcolor 660 can also be effective on difficult materials such as synthetic rubbers, soft PVC and different urethanes  and the manufacturing of fabric labels in the thermo transfer process.  Refer to the Technical Information and Series 660 MSDS documents for more details.

What we say about Printcolor 660
Printcolor 660 is a versatile screen ink but it also performs well in pad printing applications.  Although textile products like umbrellas and tote bags are usually screen printed for maximum print size,  660 is excellent for pad printing small image applications on textiles such as; tagless T-shirt branding, nylon pencil cases and compendiums and linen serviettes.  It also produces excellent results on difficult materials such as synthetic rubbers, soft PVC and urethane coatings making it perfect for pad printing leather products (real and synthetic), stress toys and soft touch coatings often used on cosmetics, pens and wine accessories.

Hardener: addition ratio of 10:1 700-HDa hardener
Thinner: 700-017 thinner – addition ratio 10 – 15% by weight
Retarder: 700-018 thinner – addition ratio 10 – 15% by weight

The good oil from our trade print room

• Printcolor 660 is a little slower than most pad printing inks.  Its relatively easy to use but you sometimes have to run a little slower to achieve transfer when printing areas of solid ink or multi-colour images.
• We use it on compendiums a lot because it sticks to both real leather and synthetics so you don’t have to guess what the substrate is.
• An excellent ink for branding tagless T-shirts.  Transfers the image well down to the finest detail and drys quickly enough that set-off is not an issue when stacking printed tees.  It produces a flexible, highly durable print that’ll stand up to many washes.
• 660 regularly surprises us by sticking to rubbery, slick coatings that look and feel unprintable.  It’s a finish that is increasing used on designer consumer items which we are presented with more and more, so we keep a couple of 660 colours in the print room as back-up.

Mixing recipes available in the Printcolor Colour Mix Calculator – here

Series 382 Pad Printing Ink

Printcolor 382 is a one component screen printing ink for PVCs and plastics.

Upgrade to Printcolor high performance Series 382 if you are using Sericol “Sericard CD”, Marabu “Maraflex FX”, or Rucco 31 VC

The official technical stuff from Printcolor
Series 382 was developed specifically for printing on PVC substrates used in the plastic laminating (eg. credit cards) and welding manufacturing processes. It is also suitable for a wide range of substrates such as rigid and flexible PVC, PVC adhesion foils, coated polyester, papers and coated surfaces. Formulated as a single component ink, Series 382 can be used with Printcolor hardeners HDA or HDR where greater mechanical, chemical or UV resistance is required. Refer to the Technical Information and Series 382 MSDS documents for more details.

What we say about Printcolor 382
What’s a screen ink doing in the Pad Printing section?  As it turns out, 382 is an excellent fast drying ink for printing stress toys.  It runs well in a pad printer and is easy to work with, giving good ink coverage and colour even on dark substrates.  It’s ideal for customising ID and loyalty cards and produces a very durable print on many of the budget-price pen lines.

Hardener: 382 is a one component ink – can add 10:1 HDa hardener to increase mechanical/chemical/UV resistances. Hardener will reduce pot life.
Thinner: 017 thinner – addition ratio 10 – 20% by weight
Retarder: 018 thinner – addition ratio 10 – 20% by weight

The good oil from our trade print room

• We use Printcolor 382 for printing stress toys because it’s fuss free – no pretreatment, no hardener and easy to use.  It gives excellent adhesion and is fast drying so you can pretty much print and pack immediately.
• Printcolor 382 has a very thick, elastic-like consistency straight out of the can and will take a little more thinning than other inks to make it doctor correctly for pad printing.  Mix through small amounts of thinner at a time, it will reach print consistency reasonably quickly but will go watery if you over do it.
• It runs well with your standard medium pad printing thinner (700-017) and transfers easily off the pad.   A pretty straight forward to use but like all fast inks, it can develop static around the print if you run it too thick or have a deep plate.
• Its a single component ink which is convenient as it gives you unlimited pot life and you can return the ink to it’s can at the end of the job.

Mixing recipes available in the Printcolor Colour Mix Calculator – here