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fluxy · October 6th, 2009

Hey there,

Bear with me as I am new to the screen printing business and have tried conducting research on my own to no avail!!

I am in the UK and am looking to find a range of plastisol inks that have their own matching / mixing formula. As far as i'm aware in the UK I can only track down a shop that sells Maxopake inks and I was wondering if this set has any software online that will enable me to mix / match to pantone colours?

Thanks in advance guys!!

ScreenPrintH2O · October 6th, 2009

If you found a supplier that offers Makopake inks then chances are it's a Union supplier that has access to their other inks. Makopake is good if your doing athletic type prints, as it's a high opacity ink. I think Unimatch is a better all around ink but that's a personal opinion. Union has mixing software available at this link: Union Ink Company - Software
and I believe this covers their makopake series as well.

Hope this helps!

bobbob1982 · October 6th, 2009

Hi m8 the inks you are using are union maxopake inks the inks you will need for matching pantone formulas are union mixopake you can go on the union websit and download there pantone matching system its free all you do is type in your pantone code and it will tell you want inks you need to make that pantone and also how much in weight of each ink hope this helps.

fluxy · October 6th, 2009

Cheers for that guys and thanks for the links to the software!

I'll look into purchasing the MIXO range I think and see how it goes. Can only find one retailer in the UK, Wicked Printing Stuff, i'll do some searches on the forum and see if they come recommended or not!

Thanks again for the quick replies dudes!