Tack Reducer

[pacificiam]

Hi,


What advert effect tack reducer gives on ink?

Like Set off, colour etc.

 

[Cornishpastythighs]

As with all additives it depends on how much you use. If a small cap full is recommended for putting in the ink duct then it follows that chucking 10 cap fulls will work even better (wrong). Adverse affects could range anywhere to increased dot gain, Poor solids, Poor ink trapping, Backtrapping, do I need to go on? Its all about how much you use and why are you having to reduce the tack? Are you doing this on your own or is your ink company recommending this?

 

[D Ink Man]

Try petrolatum or what is commonly known as Vaseline.

1/2 oz. to a lb. is all it takes.

All benefits, no detriments.

D

 

[RGPW17100]

Biggest problem I have found is dry time.

 

[Ajax]

Biggest problem I have found is dry time.

Agreed, but I do find it helps take a lot of curl out of light weight gloss stocks with heavy coverage.

 

[Dan Roll]

Try Chinawood oil (Tung oil) or Linseed oil, both will reduce the tack and neither will affect dry time or an inks' litho properties.....

 

[D Ink Man]

Little aggresive there Dan.

Also, not so good for those poor inkroom fellas who need to slip a finger full around the pooper shooter on those long hot, humid prickly days. Been dere, done dat.

This petrolatum can do no wrong; to ink, machine, man or beast.

D

 

[Dan Roll]

I used a lot of petrolatum when I used to help out a friend of mine in the press re-building business. If you cover dried, caked ink with enough petrolatum and let it sit for a few days, it all comes off with a lot less fuss.

 

[D Ink Man]

I used a lot of petrolatum when I used to help out a friend of mine in the press re-building business. If you cover dried, caked ink with enough petrolatum and let it sit for a few days, it all comes off with a lot less fuss.

Just one of it's thousands of uses.

Cat hairballs to blanket release, this is the cat's meow!

D