Anchor Base Clear

Features

AXEON™ Anchor Base Clear (ABC) 1810 is a non-PVC, non-phthalate acrysol based product that works to "wet trap" fibers when printing on a white or light colored garment.

Anchor Base Clear 1810 is a first down clear to help hide any registration issues from art, screens or presses.

Anchor Base Clear 1810 used as a first down clear provides excellent color and durability for top coats/color.

Spot Flashing

This product will spot dry, with a very low after flash tack. Dwell time is dependent on the spot dryer used. In some cases, you may have to lower the heat of the spot cure unit because too much heat may actually make the ink tacky. When you spot dry, you are only partially fusing or gelling the surface of the ink. The ink should be just dry to the touch, with no lift off, but not totally fused. Totally fusing the underprint may cause inter-coat adhesion problems with the inks printed on top. Final fusing or curing will occur in the dryer. Failure to fuse ink properly may cause cracking, poor adhesion and poor wash fastness.

Important Information

It is extremely important to preprint and test printed fabrics for wash and wear durability before beginning production.

Since acrysols do not air dry, they must be fused with an appropriate heat source in order to achieve durability. The optimum time/temperature cycle will vary with the amount of ink deposited, fabric and the type of heat source used. Acrysols actually achieve the proper fusion point as soon as the innermost section of the ink film reaches the prescribed cure temperature.

Test dryer temperatures before a production run.

Wash test printed product before production run.

This ink and those in the AXEON™ product line are not formulated with PVC resins and phthalate plasticizers, nor are they intentionally added.

Care should be taken to not cross-contaminate the AXEON™ products with PVC or phthalate containing products.

Do not use standard plastisol curable reducers with this or any of the AXEON™ products.