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	White Inks

White Plastisols

Bright Cotton White (PADM-1027)
Bright Cotton White is Union's newest white ink for 100% cotton garments. Its versatility makes it a natural choice for use as an underbase, stand-alone, or highlight white. Bright Cotton White provides excellent opacity, a pure white appearance, and a smooth surface to print over. Its easy printing viscosity ensures that it will print through meshes ranging in size from 86 - 305 (32 - 120 metric). It flash cures quickly with no after flash tack when used as an underbase on dark garments.

Diamond White (PLHT-1070)
Diamond White plastisol is Union's premium, high-opacity, low-bleed white. Diamond White is formulated to be an extremely bright white exhibiting high opacity, easy printability through fine meshes up to 196 (76 metric), and excellent bleed resistance on polyester blended fabrics. Diamond White retains a creamy viscosity during storage, is ready to use straight from the container, and is designed for both manual and automatic printing.

Polyester White (POLY-1050)
Polyester White is Union's ultimate high-opacity, low-bleed white formulated to help fight dye migration on the 100% polyester athletic uniforms or other synthetic substrates prone to dye migration. It provides excellent printing characteristics for both manual and automatic printing.

Beckmar Low Bleed White (LB-1000)
Beckmar's LB-1000 is an economical, low-bleed, high opacity white.

General Purpose

A versatile, easy-to-print, direct print and transfer ink

General Information: Ultrasoft inks are versatile, lead-free, plastisol inks formulated for direct printing and heat transfer manufacturing. They have good coverage on light and medium-colored garments. When printing on dark fabrics, a white underbase is recommended. Ultrasoft's new HS (high speed) formulation helps eliminate press stoppages due to build-up on the backs of screens.

High Opacity

High-opacity, direct print plastisol

General Information: Maxopake inks are the most opaque plastisol colors available. Even the neon colors are bright and highly opaque. Maxopake inks are recommended for direct manual or machine printing on black and dark colored garments. When printing on whites and light-colored fabrics it is recommended to add the appropriate extender base for economy.

Mixing - PANTONE

A versatile, high-opacity ink for color matching or all-around printing

General information: Union's Mixopake inks will enable you to create any color in the PANTONE® Matching System and all Union Ink standard colors when printed on black, colored, or light fabrics. Mixopake inks are also an excellent choice for standard colors when color matching is not required. Mixopake inks are balanced, ready-for-use plastisols - not concentrated pigments.

Athletic Gloss

Durable plastisol for nylon athletic uniforms

General Information: Athletic Gloss plastisol inks provide glossy, opaque prints with excellent elasticity. Athletic Gloss inks are recommended for printing large numbers, letters, and designs with thick ink deposits on cotton and cotton/ply athletic garments as well as nylon mesh jerseys. Athletic Gloss, when combined with Unistretch Additive is excellent for printing on many stretchy fabrics used in active-wear (bathing suits, cycling suits, dance-wear, etc …) such as Lycra / Spandex where great elasticity and toughness is required. Athletic Gloss is also the best choice for printing on nylon jackets with the addition of Nylobond Additive.

Process Colors

For extremely accurate and consistent process color printing

General Information: Union's Tru-Tone (PRPL) plastisol inks are the premier inks for process color printing on textiles. Tru-Tone inks have extremely accurate, consistent colors, very low dot gain, and are ready to print right out of the container.

Fabric - Patch

Ink for printing patches to resist industrial washings

General Information: Fabric Patch is a two-part textile ink formulated for the ultimate in washability and dry-cleaning. Recommended for direct printing on polyester and other textiles. Specifically designed for special thermal path fabrics. These are fabrics with a special heat sensitive adhesive coated on the reverse side. They were originally designed to allow screen printing to replace embroidered logos and names on uniforms, jackets, etc … The inks are designed to withstand 52 industrial wash cycles, which represents on year's use.