The Grendel proudly carries a full line of screen printing inks from the QCM Textile Inks Company. Get your QCM Inks in quarts and get them quickly and conveniently through our e-commerce website. As The Grendel constantly strives to be your preferred provider for superior screen printing supplies, our e-commerce store would not be complete without the high quality screen printing inks provided by our friends at QCM Inks.

QCM Inks has been in business since 1972, leading the industry with their plastisol and water based textile screen printing inks. QCM consistently works to develop new and improved, user friendly, plastisol textile screen printing inks. They provide inks that are creamy, opaque, bleed-resistant and easy to print with. One of their most popular inks is the Creamy Glacier White (XOLB-158), a high-opacity plastisol suited for printing onto 50/50-cotton/poly blends, 100% cotton, and fleece.

Now you can buy QCM Inks conveniently and efficiently in the quantities you need and as quickly as you need them. Order your QCM plastisol ink in quarts from our website at anytime; 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We will immediately process your order and you will receive them at your shop in just days! Enter our e-commerce website to check out all of our screen printing supplies and screen printing colors. Browse within our ink category or use our quick-color-wheel-ink-selector chart to quickly pick your colors.

Click on a color below to enter our e-commerce store and shop for all your screen printing inks screen printing supplies

Once you select your colors, just point, click, follow through to check-out, and wait for your inks to arrive. Upon completion of your online transaction, we will immediately email you a confirmation and then we will notify you through out the order completion process. Upon shipment of your order, we will send you an order tracking number so you can track your screen printing supplies from the time they leave our warehouse until they arrive at your shop.

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DESCRIPTION:
QCM brand XOLB inks are high opacity, multi-purpose inks designed for opaque and general printing. XOLB from QCM has a smooth, creamy consistency leaves an even, uniform color on flashed under bases, including white and can be opaque on dark garments without a white base using screen TPI (threads per inch) counts lower than 160 per inch. XOLB inks are fast (lower temperature) flashing, cure with a non-tack surface and contain rich, bright pigments.

Note: Colors shown are not exact, web representations cannot be exact.

PRINTING RECOMMENDATIONS:
XOLB inks print using a wide range of screen meshes, and work well with direct emulsions and capillary films producing 5 to 20% EOM (Emulsion Over Mesh). Best results are with screens that are 20 newtons or higher, but will perform well with lower tension screens with proper off contact adjustments. The best opacity is gained with a heavy flood and a correct squeegee shear depositing a layer of ink on the surface of the shirt. Driving any plastisol ink into the fabric will diminish the opacity and cause excessive curing temperatures and time under heat. Sharp squeegees from 60-80 work well with 70 duro the best general choice, a triple duro squeegee of 70-90-70 the optimum general printing choice.

CURING:
Recommended cure temperature is 325 degrees F (160 degrees C).
Plastisol cure is instant when it reaches a final temperature, the time or "dwell" listed is in reference to the fact that the entire ink layer must hit the cure temperature to have a complete fusion or cure of the ink. When fully cured the ink is completely wash fast. Low wash temperatures and cool dryer settings are optimum, but cannot be ironed or dry cleaned.

SUBSTRATES:
XOLB inks are suitable for cotton, cotton blends, acrylics, polyesters and poly-cotton blends. Complete testing is necessary for proper adhesion and washability. Dye migration, sublimation and bleeding colors are possible with polyester fabrics.

Additives:
XOLB inks are ready to use right out of the bucket. Extenders and soft hand extender bases are available. Viscosity reducers are available for reducing thickness while maintaining opacity.

Cleaning:
QCM platisol inks contain no lead pigments. XOLB inks when properly disposed of have no environmental impact. Use a quality screen ink wash labeled for use as an "on press wash" designed for your emulsion (to prevent lock in) for cleaning screens.

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