Jacquard Professional Screen Printing Inks

Jacquard Professional Screen Printing Inks have good body and screen beautifully with excellent resolution. With a slightly more noticeable, hand they are especially well suited to commercial applications. These inks were designed for all surfaces and are permanent on most. They will not wrinkle paper when screening art prints. Choose from a nice assortment of regular, metallic, opaque and "process" colors.

Extended Open Time: These inks break new ground with a greatly extended open time unmatched by any other ink. This gives you the flexibility to work with more colors and do bigger runs without the ink drying in the screens.

Permanence: Archival & lightfast these inks are permanent on most non-porous surfaces including: fabric, paper, plastic, vinyl, leather, metal, & more! Fabrics must be heatset for permanence and durability, or you can add Jacquard AirFix to the paint before screening and cure for a few days. Once set, the inks are fully washable and dry-cleanable on all natural & synthetic fabrics. Since these stick to almost anything, they are great for linoleum block printing as well. No need to rough up the linoleum.

Washability: Fully washable and dry-cleanable on all natural & synthetic fabrics when properly heat fixed.

Waterbased: No smelly solvents and cleanup is easy with just soap & water.

Process colors: Jacquard has created these colors for those who screen print using what's known as "4 Color Process Screen Printing" or "CMYK Printing". Using this process the four colors (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) can reproduce most of the entire spectrum of colors. This particular style of printing takes special care and is much trickier than simple screen printing. The Process colors can be used in the the same ways as the others but were created specifically with CMYK printers in mind.

Basic Instructions

• Use straight or thin as desired with water.
• Pre-wash fabric before printing if necessary to preshrink and remove sizing.
• To heat set on fabric: iron on reverse side for 1 minute at appropriate fabric setting. Keep iron moving.
• Use standard fabric setting for conveyors or commercial dryers.
• Always test samples prior to production runs.
• Curing
  Jacquard Screen Inks are self-curing on most
  surfaces no heat needed. For maximum wash
  fastness on textiles, heat at 250-300 degrees
  Fahrenheit for one to two minutes. Lower
  temperature, for longer periods of time may be
  required for some synthetic fibers.  OR, for textiles use Jacquard AirFix additive, instead of heat setting.
• Clean Up
  Clean up with warm water. Mild commercial
  detergents may be used to remove spots where
  the ink my have dried in the screen.
  Always test this product for wash fastness,
  adhesion, and other requirements specific to
  your application prior to production runs.
  Non-absorbent surfaces such as plastic and metal
  need to be cleaned before printing. While Jacquard
  Screen Printing Inks are certified ASTM D-4236,
  good housekeeping is always advised. 
• Opacity
  Use White (JSI118) or Super Opaque White
  (JSI119) to print as a separate color or blend with
  other colors to increase opacity.
  Try our five new Jacquard Opaque Screen Inks
  (JSI124 - JSI129) for unparalleled opacity.
  Also available are our Metallic inks for both
  opacity and metallic effects on all backgrounds. 
• Suggested Screen Mesh sizes
  Use monofilament polyester meshes.
  Opaque Colors = 110 mesh
  Metallic Colors = 86 mesh
  Regular Colors = 156 mesh. 
• Stencils
  Use any water resistant emulsion.

For more info and to see how these inks stack up against the competition, see our Screen Printing Inks Comparison Chart.