Comments about Jacquard Versatex Screen Printing Inks:

When used properly this is a good ink. The white in particular needs to be thinned and even strained if lumpy. The extender base should be added as well. The opacity of the white is a good feature and allows for brighter overprinted colors. In warm/dry conditions it is important use a retarder. I use an acrylic retarder or the product in the Versatex line called screen life.

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I tried this as an alternative to SpeedBall inks, picked it up at my local Blick's a few weeks ago. That was a mistake, it's so thick and like the other reviewers said, like flubber and cottage cheese. It clogged up one of my 110 mesh screens and was just horrible to work with. I don't recommend this at all. Great colors but so unusable in screen printing.

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Where to start... This ink has the consistency of a gelatinous blob, most commonly known as flubber. Which would have been tolerable if it were usable. Hands down terrible, the only thing that was positive of this was that I now know what ink not to purchase again.

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We attempted to use #43 Hot Pink and found that it was so gelatinous as to be unusable for the purpose for which it is intended. Despite our efforts to work with the ink to get it into condition to use, it remained very jelly-like and clogged our screens. Extremely disappointed - we lost a lot of money and inventory because of this product. Pretty colour, but not usable as a screen print ink.

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Even though this stuff is affordable I wouldn't recommend it. I bought 5 different colors and each one had a gelatinous consistency to it. I added extender base to try and thin up the ink but all it did was turn it into cottage cheese. Each container had a perfect airtight seal but still had similar properties to flubber.

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As an art student, these were great for my budget, especially for fabric ink. I bought a full set of colors--red, yellow, blue, black, white, and semi-opaque white (CMY not available at my Blick store so I went with red, yellow, blue). So far I have only used the semi-opaque white, and I'm not sure that I want to take a chance on the others and see if they are better. I will probably just return the rest, because they have given me nothing but trouble. So this review is only about my experience with semi-opaque white, but for me, that was enough to completely turn me off to this brand...

The viscosity of the ink is very thick. At first I was pleased with this, because I find that better for printing on fabric, but after a few minutes of use, I realized that it is not just thick, it's clumpy. After one pull of the squeegee, all of the ink sticks to the squeegee, and I have to scrape it off and lay it back on the screen. So for each pull of my squeegee, I have to stop, scrape the ink off, and put the ink back down. Talk about inefficiency!

It dries very, very quickly compared to Speedball ink. I realize this is an issue with waterbased ink, but this is worse than it should be. After about five minutes of printing, I had problems with some spots being clogged, and this is while printing with a fairly large mesh (around 140--not exactly sure because of the weird way Blick labels their screens....) and without stopping.

And don't even get me started about washing the ink out of the screen. If the things I just talked about were my only issues, I could probably just add a little water to the ink, and it would be better. But washing this ink out is almost impossible. My screen might be ruined after only printing with the white ink on it twice, because of spots that simply will not wash out. With Speedball ink, I normally spend only about five minutes washing my screen, and all I need is a sponge and water. For this ink I had to get out a scouring pad and dish soap, and even after half an hour of scrubbing, some of it will not budge. I tried bleach after that (which obviously took off my emulsion before I was ready to do that), and that did not even help. It's kind of ridiculous for water based ink, which is supposed to be easier to handle and clean up after.

I do not recommend this ink. Spend a little more money and get Speedball. You won't regret it.

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First off let it be said for an cheaper ink it is really great in most areas and I have been very pleased EXCEPT in the darker colors, which are almost and in some cases literally are unusable. I purchased one of each of all of the colors offered here on Dick Blick in one gigantic bulk order and have been working through as needed over the last year and have observed that all of the lighter inks such as sky blue, reds, yellow, metallic,etc have all had a great "mayo" consistency whereas black and the darker blues have been very thin, in fact what prompted me to write a review is when an hour ago I opened a sealed navy-blue and it spewed out of the sides of the container like water all over myself and my work. Literally as thin as juice and completely unusable except for maybe mixing with a lighter ink to darken it. Maybe I got a bad batch, but after going through 2 blacks and all of the darker blues and having problems I really can't recommend in regards to reliability and consistent quality.

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I truly love these inks...I use plastisol inks as well but I like the easy clean up with these inks water based inks. And the 16oz size jar I use prints at least 100 shirts for me out of one jar (not using a large design medium to large)and the colors are fantastic as well! I found Dick Blick Art supplies online one day and visited a store. I moved out of state for a little while and they don't have a store where I live but the ordering form their site is super fast and easy! The delivery time is superb!! I will continue to order from them they have a great selection on everything!!

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I used the super opaque white on dark purple shirts, for our levy designs and field day shirts - (1300 shirts). The super opaque white covers in one swipe. In addition hte glow in the dark ink is really cool on kids shirts.

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This product makes a great white print over dark fabrics. We use this product on Navy blue, Black, and Red T-shirts, Polo,s, and Sweats. The best method that we have found is to use a 110 mesh screen, load the screen, and with a stiff squeege, make two firm passes without lifting the screen in between the passes. After these 2 passes, lift the screen and using a blow dryer, air dry the printed area for 30 seconds. Lower the screen and make one additional pass. Lift the screen and remove the garmet.

We let this garmet dry on the shelf overnight, and using a clam shell press set on 350f , heat set the garmet for 1:15.

You MUST back flood the image area on the screen after each pass as this product will dry in the screen as do all water based products.