Water Based Ink VS Plastisol Ink - Which is better? Everything you need to know Review KING PRINT 

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You want to print as much as you can without flashing. The heat from the pallet is what is causing the ink to dry. The mesh count you use is very important. For a print like this I would use 160 mesh or lower maybe 125 mesh. If you coat your screen heavy maybe, coat it twice letting it dry between coatings. You might have to add time to exposing your screen. you want a thick layer of emulsion. Another thing I do is put a pad on the pallet. One of the materials that works great is the material that is used to make wetsuit. Like the ones surfers use. This spongy pad allows the ink to stay on the surface. If you are printing on a hard pallet surface and the squeegee rubber is some what harder you will not get as much ink down. Then your kind of fighting it. The foam/rubber pad really helps. After that it's kind give and take on how opaque you want the ink to be. I use to what the white ink super white, with print/flash/ print using plastisol ink. I like the softness of the waterbase ink. I only hit my t-shirts once and let them air dry over night. This might not be ideal for production runs where you have to get it out right away. I have a count-o-veyer dryer but it's not idea for water base ink. It a pretty old dryer. Just my 2 cents - Henry loco Contreras

the reason that ink is drying in the screen is because you are not leaving the screen flooded after printing

the problem is youre using plastisol principles for water based ink. It's not a fair test.

Water based ink is a headache, but I agree with the other person commenting - printing with WB is totally different from plastisol. Everything has to be prepared and ready. Professional WB ink and leave your screens flooded. Also, with WB ink, you should be adding loads more to your screen. Also, a mister, to rehydrate ink in the screen as you print. First time I printed WB, I had major panics and headaches, but it gave me some incredible end results, so I stuck with it.

I have never had that problem with water base ink you have to flood the screen after ever print to keep it from drying out

Alway wondered about the difference between water base n plastisol. Great explanation.

with water-based ink you have to leave the stencil filled with ink after each pass, or use the drying retarder with the ink

Working in a room 7x7 feet sizen with WB has been my worst nightmare! I'm migrating to plastisol...

With water based inks, how would you make the white and black ink lighter in color? I'm ok with using water based because I'm just making shirts for myself so I will only be printing one print anyway of each image.

Great video man I've been trying to figure out wtf an now ik the water base in is doing it exactly that an ruins my shirts if it's a diy ya but for resell no so gotta get new ink thank you so much for this video Also any input on curing the ink plastisol ink with a heat gun just starting out an don't have enough for a flash dryer Anyone thanks 🙏

Great video, thank you. My question is regarding durability and feel of plastisol. Would you please tell me about your experience?

Flood with waterbased and there definitely better ink than speed ball wow

To the dude commenting about his shop being a pig sty: A messy shop is a sign of a busy shop so I feel his tutorial is valid

ayo, clean your shop homie, that lints gonna caus a fire

if i use a 110 mesh screen which one should i use. water or plastisol?

Plastisol ink, Will it be good for printing skateboard decks ? Which one will be better for skateboard decks. WB or plastisol

Very helpful thank you

I’m a new screen printer and I have only ever used water based and I have never had ink dry up like that or stick to my shirts.

Thanks for the info

Hello King print. I have one question. What is the difference between Plastisol inks and Solvent Inks. what is the purpose for two both? Thank you so much

I've experienced exactly what u showed with the water based ink "speedball". The ink dries up very fast and the ink does stick to the screen causing me to have to wash my screen every 3prints cause the ink dries and messes up my print causing it to look like it's a vintage type of print with pieces of my image not printing right

Great video, thanks a lot,

Like another comment says, your using the Wb ink like it was plastisol ink. Clearly your main usage is that. Its quite clear you don't use WB. Flood the screen after each use period. We have done 100's of shirts no dried ink in our screens. Wash them out immediately once i have done alot of shirts this way

Excellent, informative, straight to the point.

waterbase: print fast fast fast! and flood flood flood. thats why waterbase printer use array table and print lots of shirt in one go. just my 2cent

Killer Video ,,Looks like water base is out,,,Thanks for the info,,it really helps us beginners out..

nice video man btw Is it possible that you can use 1 design on 1 screen using 2 colors? the first is water based black ink and the other is white. The Ink always gets clogged so I end up removing the design and chaging it to a new one. Need Help.

Which one would you recommend for printing on plastic pens and metal pens

So basically you will say plastisol ink is better and why you keep swing the board back and forth and how you get the design to put on the screen?

My question is could you not go over the water based two more times for a deeper tint?

How can I cure my shirt's if I don't have a conveyor or flash dryer?

I think you're Emulsion is for Plastisol ink that doesnt do well when WB is applied. Someone correct me, I'm trying to learn Screen Printing.

Thanks for the video!! Extremely helpful and warranted…. Now know plasticol ink is King.. it wasn’t even close

What do you mean by white flash white. What is flash??

Can you dye a white shirt with a water based screen print without the water based ink from the print absorbing the color of the dye?

I am using plastisol ink on my fabric.after wash it fades out.what I'm doing wrong ☹️

water based is always better .. plastisol is not even considered ink (to me) and it makes so much mess and does not last that long.. water based is much easier to work with and lasts for as long as the fabric lasts. (thats my opiniion)

Pls what pain can I use to print a name of fabric

NICE

i was wondering could u make dtf white inks with this base

Thank you for this video I'm new to all this and I got some tshirts done with heat press/transfer and someone told me plastisol is better because it's in the tshirt compare to heat press that you could feel the letters and in time it will mess up and crack. Bit then in another video the person said plastisol ink does that I'm confuse

Hi great vid I do have a question is plastisol ink safe for under 5 years old or any children from that matter?

GOOD COMARISON BROTHA! THANK YOU! I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN MYSELF INTO A WORLD OF TROUBLE...

Can I use plastisol ink on dri fit?

Use mesh 120 and higher and add water to water based ink..he left mor time to dry..water based ink is for paper not for coton fabrics

No off contact?

This isn't a good comparison. You're not using the water based ink correctly. You always want to flood the screen with ink in between prints. If you flood it, it won't dry up like that. Load the screen up with ink also. The tiny bit of ink you were using is definitely going to dry out quick.

Who uses speedball professionally... That's comparing apples to oranges...

You have to flood the screen with water based ink. I don1t belive that ink dries in 5 min.

This is a totally unfair comparison. Waterbased should be flooded.

BUT why wll keep DOING OVER AND over how many times have to put paint in the damn tshirt?

Dude, that space is disgusting! Clean it up! Hard to follow advice from someone who works in a pig sty.

you should take this down.. you aren't doing it right for WB.. and anyone who has common sense can hear your bias from the start.