Today we do a little product review on
fusion 180s white ink coming up so today
we're gonna do a little bit of a review
on some ink fusion 180 sent us no I got
ink on my hand the folks over at fusion
180 was kind enough sorry this is my ink
station and apparently he needs a little
bit of a wipe down I keep getting ready
ink up my hands but fusion 180 was was
kind enough to send us this package
which has some sample ink forests in
return we said we would do a review so
let's see what's inside the box
got some technical information looks
like we need to use 82 305 cures at 240
you can also be cured with the flash for
seconds at 450 degrees that's good
information to know the ink gels at low
flash temperatures that's good does not
require a catalyst yeah you know typical
stuff can print on any fabric and heat
sensitive materials polyester soft vinyl
water what do we have in here what did
they send us eco-friendly increased
production with Fusion 180 I'll let you
guys pause it and read over some of this
I think this enough phthalate free
that's good always a great thing just
like if we have a bunch of different
model numbers and all that stuff let's
get to the meat and potatoes and so
shall we okay it looks like we have
fusion 180 cotton ult F 180 ultra low
thermal fusion plastisol Inc choosing
Tim 152 240 super die thermal migration
resistance excellent and blocker of
cotton fiber fibrillation opaque white
we'll put that to the test
okay I'm guessing because this is a
sample it's not completely full or maybe
it's just the size of the container I
don't know yeah seems about the same
size as some of the other containers we
use yeah as I started to dig into it
stuff's pretty thick you know one thing
that I look for when I am taking a ink
is actually how creamy it is cuz I don't
want to have to work my tail off
printing white ink has a little bit of a
odor to it not too too bad a little
different than I'm used to
seems a little some of this ink here
coming off the sides
seems a little chalky but who knows it's
an eye I don't know we're gonna print
some the shop gnome shirts with this but
a little hesitant to maybe we'll just do
a print and see how it goes let's
compare the fusion 180 to my usual go-to
which is epic amazing bright white look
how easy this ink is to just stir it up
and this is one of the reasons why I
really like this ink and it prints down
a nice bright white let's take this
stuff on press and just see how it works
out
fusion 180 what I assume is caught in
ink here then we're gonna load it up
into the screen
and then put a generous amount that way
anytime you're printing with white you
want to be sure to put a good amount
even if you're doing a handful prints
you scrape the excess ink out but be
sure to put a good amount of ink in
there okay gang what we are using for
our test subject is a bell canvas 3001
t-shirt and it is 100% cotton okay I'm
gonna go ahead and load up the t-shirt
and then let's go ahead and do our first
pass I'm going to flood it print it a
couple times flood again
that way I can get the ink actually
flowing through the mesh kind of
saturate the mesh it's that way we're
really getting the good and it's good
friend so this is the fusion 180 ink
we're using a 70 drama terse queasy and
let's see how this turns out you can see
this pretty thick
has a little bit of a smell and I'm
going to do a push stroke but I'm going
to use a fairly upright position almost
as straight up as I can get it but
you're not going to be able to print it
like that I'm going to try and do this
fairly upright I'm going to do a few
passes until it clears
Wow that's pretty hard to print with I
haven't mentioned this yet but this is a
195 the tension on this thing is nice
and tight this one was just remesh not
that long ago but let me slide it one
more time and then give it another hit
before I show you how it looks and I'm
putting a good amount of pressure down
here it's still yet to clear
I mean it looks like a pretty bright
print I don't think that the mesh
cleared as well as I would have liked it
to and so here is hit number one as you
can see it looks pretty good it looks
like it's holding down the fibrillation
pretty well the reason we did the 195 is
all this little detail and then we have
these really detailed small lines here
you can actually see the knit of the
shirt but it looks pretty good even
though it's a little tough to print by
hand manually looks pretty good for the
first hit okay now that I did my first
pass I'm gonna go ahead and flash this
until it's nice and tacky and no ink
just coming up on my finger
okay I flashed this for maybe about a
good seven to eight seconds and it
actually it flashed really quick that's
that's pretty awesome so we're gonna go
ahead and do now is we're going to go
ahead and do our second path it's going
to flood it this ink is a little thicker
than I'm used to working with but you
know the end results matters as well I
tend to like my inks to do not be so
stick with the bright white opaque
friend but as you can see that that
looks pretty good that looks really
really good and it seems to have done
what it's supposed to you know it's a
bright white ink looks like it fought
off the chip relation we got all of our
details here
I'll say that I'm impressed with this
ink how quickly it flashed the coverage
my only complaint would be how thick it
is I'm just kind of over printing with
super thick white ink on a long run
manually I would not use this ink with
it automatic yeah this would be a great
option I'm going to go ahead and toss
this on the conveyor dryer and see what
she has a shot nothing
okay we just ran this through the
conveyor we cured it at about 280 here
at saying about 240 and I'll say that
it's got a nice hand it has a nice hand
to it it's even with the 195 it's really
a really bright white print but it's
also pretty thick I mean it's it's got
some body to it which isn't a bad thing
it's just not quite what I was expecting
and that also is not a bad thing I think
that's
man that's actually pretty great so let
me see what she had on the shop known
things shandler shop known what do you
think about this print okay hand over
the whole thing run your hand over the
whole thing you don't want your hand in
it
okay drive it off camera so what do you
think I like it texture is kind of thick
yeah but it's kind of thick nice bright
textures thick maybe a little too thick
from the details that I'm noticing or
missing like all the cracks are supposed
to be there okay yeah but if you look at
the difference between that like puffy
it does so this one was the one stroke
ink but we just I'm not I don't recall
if we did and a print flash print with
this this one is definitely a brighter
white I don't recall if we did just a a
one hit print with this that we print
flash print this one I don't know you
did that without me okay
well it looks like it's definitely
brighter I mean some of the tails are
missing but that might just have been
the screen making process I I think that
this is a nice bright white it does do
what it says it does which is get rid of
fibrillation but I think part of it why
it's not there is because it's a thicker
ink I think it's it is thicker
there's definitely a lot of hand to it
versus well that one you can almost see
well yeah just print flash print that
one I don't know I I think it's great I
the thing as I was saying in front of
the camera when you weren't there's I
just don't like how thick the ink is and
how hard it is to push through this the
screen and so this kind of translates
into what I was saying about how thick
it is because this is a pretty thick
candid fill yeah listen which isn't bad
you can definitely hear it yeah all
right we're gonna do a little bit of a
stretch test see how this came out seems
like at 280
it's pretty and stress is pretty well
I'm stretching it both ways and it seems
to not really be breaking up much if any
generally we'll using a 195 if you
stretch it along with the fibers you
might tear the print a little bit if you
did a 110 that wouldn't so much to be
the case I tend to use a higher mesh
even for white about 195 you can see me
stretch it and looks pretty good so a
good job there guys looks awesome
has a nice feel to just a lil on a
thicker side but you know it's plastics
all in so it's meant to have a hand so
I'll say oh I'm impressed
in that sense okay so there you have it
everybody me personally as a manual
screen printer it's a little thick and
tough to work with it produces a bright
opaque white print with a print flash
print method has a little bit of a smell
but it's flat saw ink so what are you
gonna do once you do cure it it tends to
be fairly thick which i think is trying
to compensate for the fibrillation to
the fight fibrillation and then as you
heard it from Shannon Shannon thought it
seemed a little thick some of the
details seem to get a little loss of
those fine details but I mean you know
this is a higher to tell print that
we're doing with the 195 mesh so there's
our review we really appreciate fusion
180 ink for sending us a sample to try
out we'll continue to work with it a
little more and see what we think of it
but that is our review for now thanks
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