DETAILS
- USE
- Lower plastisol viscosity for a softer hand and cleaner prints through fine mesh
- WORKS WITH
- plastisol ink
- MIXING
- Warm the ink to printing temperature and stir it thoroughly first. A 5 percent addition by weight lowers the viscosity of most plastisols by around 25 percent, so work in small additions. Within the recommended range it will not shift the ink's cure temperature. Past 10 percent you start trading away opacity and bleed resistance and can affect cure. Always pull a test print after you reduce.
PRINTOOLS NOTES
Stocked by Jones Brothers Printechnology in Campbellfield (quarts through 5 gallon pails, orders by phone or email) and CCG Industries for New Zealand. Reducer is not a fix for old or badly stored ink, it is for dialling in viscosity on good ink. For heavy-bodied whites and blockers, Avient's concentrated Viscosity Buster (K2910) at 0.5 to 3 percent is the better tool.
