Screen Colour Systems

Aquascreen Technical Notes

Aquascreen is a range of ready-mixed water-based screen inks for textile printers. These inks are ready to use straight from the pot. The Aquascreen range includes Standard Colours Fluorescents Colours and special effect binders. These can be screen-printed onto both natural and synthetic white and light-coloured fabrics. The colours are translucent and can be overprinted to produce additional shades. Only Black and Opaque White are suitable for dark and coloured fabrics. When printing onto dark fabrics we recommend the Aquapaque range of ready-mixed inks. The printed garment retains the original soft feel of the fabric when printed through finer meshes. All AquaScreen standard colours are inter-mixable.

All our water-based textile inks require heat to achieve maximum wash resistance. Our recommended curing schedule for most of our textile inks is 160°C for 2 minutes. This is a guide and under certain conditions the dwell time may need to be altered without changing the temperature. A 2% Aqua Cool Cure Additive can be added to accelerate the curing process. The AquaScreen Cool Cure Additive can also enhance wash resistance when 160°C is not achievable. We recommend a wash test is conducted before commencing a print run.

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