Top 5 reasons to buy permaset inks?
- 100%solvent free
- SUPER soft hand feel
- amazing coverage over dark fabrics with their SUPERCOVER line of inks
- full range of standard and supercover colours
- Easy heat setting at home
Here’s my review of the SUPERCOVER inks:
The soft hand feel is not the best thing about Permaset; the best thing is the SUPERCOVER line of opaque pigments. How many of you have had to add opaque white base to your pigments and had to use so much pigment just to get the colour saturated it ended up costing five times more than a regular colour would have? Or have had to do more than one coat to get an opaque colour on dark fabrics? Well, you’re going to love these. Permaset SUPERCOVER pigments are ONE COAT coverage over black. Amazing. I’ve demo’d some of the SUPERCOVER inks on black with the standard cover pigment to show you the difference.
Left: Permaset Standard Cover White Ink Right: Permaset SUPERCOVER White Ink
As you can see the SUPERCOVER white ink has full opaque coverage with just two passes compared to a standard cover ink and both have a great soft hand feel.
Left: Permaset SUPERCOVER Scarlet Ink Right: Permaset standard cover
Here’s an example of the scarlet SUPERCOVER and the scarlet standard cover. You might want to note that the scarlet SUPERCOVER and standard cover are slightly different hues. Unlike the other inks that come both in standard and SUPERCOVER colours which are all almost identical I have found the standard scarlet to be a much more orange hue than the supercover.
Left: SUPERCOVER Right: Standard
Here’s an example of how the SUPERCOVER and standard cover pigments will perform when you overprint a light and dark print.
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thanks- but I’ve already found someone to edit the e-book.
Thanks a bunch for this review! I’ve been looking at the Supercover series but wasn’t sure if it was just marketing hype about the opacity. Seeing the examples has me sold. It costs twice as much as the standard stuff I’m using, but I use 3 or more coats to get decent coverage on dark fabrics, so I’ll be saving money in the end. Much appreciated!
Don’t forget that you need a minimum a 110 screen mesh- no higher or you’ll loose your opacity. Ideally they suggest 83 mesh count. My examples though were done with 110.
Good luck and happy printing.
Thanks bro. Helpful pics