Thanks mainly to Canadian snowboard racers like Freddy Ansara in our illustration, and snowboarders in general, fluorescent prints are on the way back.
That gave Chris Hughes, our warehouse and ink lab manager, a great idea. Chris, who has many years of experience in the industry as the former production manager in two different automated print shops, suggests that you buy some of the Fluorescent Puff ink in our “$10.00 Bargains on the Blog” section (you can get a 5-gallon container for just $10.00) and use it for creating special effects.
She says that you can get an interesting tone-on-tone, high-density kind of print with a single colour of fluorescent puff. Print the first screen and flash it. Then print the second screen and put the print through the dryer. The first print, having been flashed, will end up a bit lower, darker and shinier than the second print. An 80 or 110 mesh is recommended for this.
Chris says that not only can you create interesting special effects by playing around with the fluorescent puff ink in this way, but that you get a high-density type of effect without having to use a special high density capillary film on your screen.
Get creative and go after Freddy and his snowboarding pals. We also hear that the freestyle skiers are flashing the fluorescents. At $10.00 for a 5-gallon container of Wilflex fluorescent puff, what have you got to lose?