Matsui 301 for posters?

[cloudesign]

Looking at making the switch to water based instead of using acrylics.

I don't want to lose any color intensity / brightness!

Has anyone used Matsui 301 water based inks? Thoughts?

[Josh Rickun]

i use em sometimes - they're shimmery and shiny and expensive

[cloudesign]

Price seems to be about 5-10% more than Speedball Acrylics. Doesn't seem to bad to me?

What's the best quality / price? I used a University screen printing lab for years and have no clue as to ink costs.

[anthony social]

i've got them as well. i've only used the process cyan and magenta though. i have another poster due soon. i'll let you know how they turn out. the process colors were really smooth, and bright.. really easy to print with.

oh, and another convenient thing about them, the colors are named after the base pantone colors. really easy to match in photoshop/illustrator. and matsui has a free color matching software to easily match pantone colors.

[ohdanielsan]

here's where i do my spiel:

matsui inks are t-shirt inks. the label says you can use it on paper too, but i don't recommend it if you are printing more than 2 or 3 colors on top of each other. unless you're heat-setting your prints, the ink will never fully dry and your stack of posters will become a huge brick. don't say i didn't warn you.

what do you mean by "switch to water based instead of using acrylics"...? acrylics are water based.

here's a quick noob guide, since you're ink shopping -
in order of ease of use: speedball, perma print, TW, nazdar 2700.

[anthony social]

matsui inks are t-shirt inks. the label says you can use it on paper too, but i don't recommend it if you are printing more than 2 or 3 colors on top of each other. unless you're heat-setting your prints, the ink will never fully dry and your stack of posters will become a huge brick. don't say i didn't warn you.

good to know. i heard that they could be difficult to dry. on the last poster i did, there is a small overlap of colors and it took quite a while to dry. ill have to be more careful about overlapping colors. i would like to avoid heat setting due to registration issues on paper.