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A spotlight on colour changing screen printing inks
If you’re looking for ways to incorporate intrigue to your screen printed garments, adding colour-changing effects can be a great option. There’s a wide variety of options in the MagnaPrint range of water-based inks, each offering a colour shift response to environmental conditions such as sunlight, heat, water, UV light and water. Here are four of the ranges that can bring these properties to garments and textiles: • Heat sensitive thermochromic effects with the MagnaPrint Variotherm range
These heat sensitive pigments that lose their standard colour as the temperature they are exposed to rises. They retain their colour up to 22°C (72°F), and progressively begin to lose it as temperatures builds up to 31°C (88°F) – at which point the ink has disappeared.
• Shining a light on photochromic inks with MagnaPrint Uvisenz RFU These inks provide a fully reversible colour change when exposed to UV light and sunlight. Light causes the molecular structure of the colourant to change, allowing it to exhibit a hidden colour. Once the light source is removed, the ink will slowly return to its original state which is almost invisible on the garment.
• MagnaPrint Invisible Ink for stunning black light effects Under exposure to UV light, the printed areas of this ink will glow bright blue, allowing for bold, dramatic effects. It can be printed as a clear topcoat ink to add invisible effects to certain print areas of your design.
The new MagnaPrint range of water-based inks
• Uncover hidden print layers with MagnaPrint Wet Reveal This hydrochromic opaque ink turns transparent when it comes into contact with water. It was developed to be printed as white topcoat ink able to hide other printed layers and colours underneath. When water is applied, the Wet Reveal ink slowly fades revealing printed areas beneath – once it dries, the ink returns to its opaque state.
www.magnacolours.com Mismatic A wealth of possibilities
Mismatic manufactures screen printing presses, dryers, handling systems, pre- and post-press equipment, and it has a selection of more than 100 models. Its machineries are installed in 60 countries worldwide. In recent years the best-selling machines are Sophia and Lorenzo. Both machines can be equipped as option with a latest generation ethernet/ WiFi router. Thanks to this device, the possibilities of the machines are greatly expanded: remote service, monitor control by PC, tablet and smartphone, free software updates, etc.
Sophia – Sophia has been designed and built to satisfy a specifi c request of the customers: to have available a single-colour automatic screen printing machine for printing garments that is compact in size, easy to use, with an excellent production per hour and above all low-cost.
The need of the customers has forced Mismatic to completely rethink the concept of screen printing machine for fabrics.
The introduction of a single mobile printing table has allowed Mismatic both to extremely reduce the size of the machinery and to make the loading and unloading of the garment easy and fast.
Mismatic’s Sophia and Lorenzo
Lorenzo – Many customers asked for a machine like Sophia, but which was equipped with a vacuum printing table. From this request Lorenzo was born, a semi-automatic screen printing machine for sheets (paper, cardboard, etc.) that gives a nod at printers of transfers for fabric.
Unlike traditional semi-automatic screen printing machines, where the table is covered by the printing unit and the space for loading and unloading the sheet is reduced, Lorenzo’s mobile printing table makes loading and unloading the material quick and easy.
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