Winter Wonderland

Happy New Year and Welcome to the 2009 Winter edition of International Coatings’ Newsletter. We have a lot of news to share with you.  Here are highlights from this issue: ISS Long Beach is coming up Jan. 23-25 New Products - PVC-Free High Density, 7041 Ultra Low-Bleed Paramount White, and our GEN IV Eco-friendly ink series.  Read more below. New Bases now available! – 7050 Opaque Base and 3816 Sentri Clear. Find out more below. Phthalate Compliance – IC has been hard at work to assure that our standard ink product formulas comply with the Consumer Product Safety Improvements Act of 2008.  More below. New Ultramix Online Color Formulation Tool – Cool Tool. New Special Effects Kits – Available now. Facebook – Come visit our new Facebook page. Product ‘How To’s’ – Check out our web site for new tips.

Happy New Year!

A new year is upon us and we want to extend Best Wishes for a successful and fulfilling 2009.  We will continue to work hard and provide you the best performing products, outstanding customer service, and most responsive and knowledgeable technical support in the market. 
ISS Long Beach

ISS Long Beach - Be sure to come by our booth, #1947, to check out our latest products.  Ed Branigan will lead print demonstrations of our new PVC-Free High Density and Paramount White inks, and will showcase several new special effects techniques. See you there!!!

Coming Soon: PVC-Free HD

International Coatings premiered its new PVC-Free High Density ink at the recent SGIA show.  We are currently beta-testing the product, but initial reports have been overwhelmingly positive!  The new ink is creamy and smooth, produces a soft print with a lot of stretch and is also phthalate free.

Brand New! Paramount White

At SGIA 08 we showcased our brand new 7041 Paramount Ultra Low-Bleed White.  Paramount’s outstanding bleed blocking capabilities and other attributes, such as printability and opacity, make it our best ever white ink and quite possibly – in our opinion – the best white ink in the market. 7041 Paramount White’s superior attributes include: Ultra low bleed Phthalate-free formulation (PF) Excellent opacity Very fast flash Low cure (300°F to 325°F) Ideal for low and high mesh counts Non-ghosting No bleaching agents Creamy viscosity The 7041 Paramount White is in stock now.  Try it today! You will be impressed.

NEW Opaque Base & Sentri Clear

Introducing our new 7050 Opaque Base and 3816 Sentri Clear: 7050 Opaque Base is a ‘Phthalate Compliant’ opaque mixing base that can be used in many of the popular mixing systems.  7050 Opaque Base creates more opaque colors and can be printed through a wide variety of mesh sizes.   3816 Sentri Clear is a soft hand ‘Phthalate Compliant’ mixing base that can be added to any product to dramatically reduce the hand.  Sentri Clear can also be used as an underbase to help lock down fibers and control fibrillation.  3816 Sentri Clear can be printed through a wide variety of mesh sizes.

  Phthalate and Lead Compliance 

For years, International Coatings has been pro-active and in many instances, even ahead of regulations governing certain chemicals as it steadily moved towards a more eco-conscious product line.  Some of our most popular products were initially formulated with either no phthalates or without what are now restricted phthalates.  All International Coatings inks, except for one or two products designed for limited and restricted use, meet current standards for lead and other heavy metals.

Shortly after California and federal regulations restricting the use of certain phthalates in infant toys and child care articles were announced, International Coatings began converting all of its product formulas to eliminate any question as to whether and which of its products can be used to meet government regulations and the requirements of major retailers.   Unless otherwise specified, all 2009 International Coatings standard ink product formulas now comply with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CSPIA) regarding lead and phthalate content and the Consumer Product Safety Act, Title 16 CFR Part 1303, Part 1500.135 regarding restrictions on heavy metals.  Once we work down our inventory of products that were formulated ahead of the restrictions (which are OK to use for any application other than infant toys and child care articles), we will no longer offer ink products that contain any of the restricted phthalate plasticizers.  In the meantime, please be sure to specify when you order if you require phthalate compliant inks now.  And look for the ‘phthalate compliant’ sticker on the containers. In addition to our full line of ‘Phthalate Compliant’ inks, International Coatings offers several eco-friendly ink lines that are either Phthalate-Free, or PVC and Phthalate-Free.

New! UltramixÔ Online Color Formulation Tool

Introducing our NEW web-based UltramixÔ Color Formulation Tool.  Now you can obtain Pantone® simulation color formulas for our UltramixÔ 7400, 7900, and 9000 ink series online from anywhere in the world.  Our new tool also allows you to create your own library of custom color formulas and calculates custom pricing and costs.  How cool!  Click here to check it out.

GEN IV Eco-Friendly Inks

Recently, our National Sales Manager, Kent Hudson, enlisted the help of Aurum Organics to assist the Music Makers Relief Foundation, a North Carolina based charity helping Southern music pioneers. Aurum donated organic t-shirts and then using GEN IV inks, Mirror Image of Pawtucket, RI printed a highly detailed black and white photograph on black shirts.  These unique T-shirts will be sold to raise money for the organization.  International Coatings is proud to be part of this project and the shirts came out beautifully.

Gen IV Series inks are PVC-Free and Phthalate-Free, and offer many of the same attributes of traditional plastisol inks – great opacity, ease of use, smooth viscosity, and printable on automatic equipment. Most amazingly, these high-solids water base inks don’t dry easily on the screen.  And they can be used for both direct and transfer printing. Order a GEN IV Kit today and be prepared to love this product!

New! Special Effects Kits

Back due to popular demand!  We now have a limited number of our Special Effects Kits available.  These Kits contain one quart each of our BlowOut Base and Granite Base as well as a pint of our red color concentrate and some basic How-To guidelines.  Kits are available for only $30 each.

Don’t miss out on this Special Effects Kit or our other limited stock kits ($30 each):

• Water-base Discharge Kit (Discharge Base, Activator & Pigment)
• GEN IV Kit (4601 White, 4618 Black, and 4602 Yellow & Reducer)

 

Order them today!

A Special Thank You!

International Coatings would like to extend a special “Thank You” to the students of the Screen Printing Class at Pasadena City College for contributing their special artwork, creativity, passion, and talents to create two banners for our booth at SGIA! They combined different special effects techniques using various inks from our line, and combined them with foil, caviar beads, and even appliqué techniques. The result was fantastic! Thank you so much!  We look forward to more amazing creations from you in the future.     For more info you can contact kfpilon@pasadena.edu

FOREVER Digital Transfer Paper

Every year, interest in Digital Transfer products grows.   That’s why we are proud to offer the FOREVER line of digital transfer papers. 

FOREVER transfer papers offer superior performance – application, versatility, color brightness, opacity, detail, durability, stretchability and washability. We have tested FOREVER’s durability through 50 washings.

Click here for more information available on our website.

FOREVER Solvent Dark	FOREVER Solvent Dark Metallic	FOREVER Solvent Dark Metallic printed over with Granite Base ink

Facebook Page

Visit our new Facebook page!  We have listed our latest news, products, and printing techniques. Leave us comments and browse our page! We’d love to hear from you.

Printing Tips

Printing Tips and Techniques: Many of you asked for ‘how-to’s’ on special effects and other printing tips.  We now have a section posted on our website featuring many new techniques and applications.  You can click here to go to our How-To page. We have a lot of information on our website, www.iccink.com. But please feel free to email or contact us with any specific questions about any products or product categories.