PolyOne Wilflex™ Screen Printing Inks are more than just
textile inks. Wilflex focuses on total ink-room management, providing the most
efficient, cost-effective environment possible to help you win in competitive
marketplaces.
Textile Screen Printers Have a New Ally: EPIC™ Rio
Non-Phthalate Ink Mixing System from Wilflex.
On July 11, 2016 PolyOne announced the launch of
non-phthalate Wilflex™ EPIC™ Rio, a new color mixing system for textile
inks. Based on cutting-edge pigment technology and formulated for excellent
color strength, these inks are PANTONE® approved and boast an extended color
range of 18 finished ink mixing components. The end results are a perfect
balance of color accuracy, vibrancy and opacity for peak press performance and
color design.
As the most opaque color system in the Wilflex range,
EPIC Rio maintains color precision and flexibility, and can help screen
printers save ink and money by achieving color on press quicker, even with fine
mesh-counts. The increased opacity of EPIC Rio also offers greater processing
flexibility with regard to mesh screen selection, print strokes and direct print
capability, all while maintaining accuracy to Pantone color standards.
Kevin Romine, Wilflex product manager, commented, “EPIC Rio’s
color matches to Pantone color standards are spot on, and they strike a perfect
balance between color vibrancy and opacity. These new inks will allow textile
screen printers to improve opacity and really up their game on color design
because the increased color accuracy and strength add a significant ‘wow’
factor.”
The inks are creamy and smooth right out of the bucket and
remain that way throughout production runs. Press-ready EPIC Rio inks also give
consistent, exceptional results for large or small runs.
Designed for ease of printing on a manual press without
tiring the press operator, EPIC Rio inks are also appropriate for larger
production runs with an automatic press. They perform well over a wide range of
mesh sizes and press parameters, so printability for either manual or automatic
textile screen-printing is outstanding.
Their distribution footprint covers 55 countries across the
globe supporting their wide range of Wilflex ink chemistries.
The Wilflex brand of inks emerged in the early 1960’s as
screen printing on t-shirts gained popularity for self-expression allowing the
Wilflex brand to gain global recognition. Wilflex continued to make history
twenty years later, when it provided design freedom allowing hundreds of color
options with the introduction of the first plastisol mixing system. Another
first for the textile printing industry was the introduction of automated ink
dispensing equipment in the early 1990’s. The Wilflex DispenseMaster™ continues
to excel in the global market by providing efficiency driven and automated
solutions in today’s leading print shops. Ink room solutions now also includes
IMS3.0, a cloud based software providing formula and inventory management for
the entire family of PANTONE® approved Wilflex color mixing
systems.
Learn more about textile
screen-printing and t-shirt
printing in our apparel industry directory.
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