Heat Transfer Inks
The
upside to being picky is that high quality gets you a lot of
happy customers. The downside (a little bit anyway) is that you
can spend a lot of time and money before you are totally satisfied. That was our
story in developing our inks and delivery system. We
lost count of the different inks we tested in developing our TransMagic!™
Inks brand. One ink would wash well but the color was off. Another had great color
but it changed when heated. Another printed well but lost too much color in the
wash. On and on. Our
TransMagic!™ Inks brand is the result of slightly over a year in testing,
tweaking, fussing and occasionally pulling our hair out. We’re glad that
we did. We can proudly present our TransMagic!™ Inks as
the equal of our well-known Alpha brand heat transfer papers.
TransMagic!™ Inks
- Very
bright, vibrant colors
- Guaranteed
superior washability
- Colors
not affected by the heat press
- Color
profiled for superior color matching
- Chemically
designed to not clog your printer
- Cheap
printing costs, compared to regular inks
The
Rest Of The Story That You Need To Know Information
about our MagicFlow!™ CIS delivery system is below this section Our
little secret – TransMagic!™ Inks are a combination of inks and
technologies. When it became clear that no one ink manufacturer could provide
every benefit that we wanted, we started testing combinations. As
we tested combinations we also experimented with a few of our own additives (our
own little "secret ingredients"). We won't pretend that the road was
smooth or without dead-end streets. However, because of persistence (or just plain
stubbornness) we finally got to what we now call the "Halleluiah Day".
TransMagic!™ Inks were a reality. As
we continued to test and improve, a variation of regular TransMagic!™
Inks (TransMagic!™ Inks) was introduced to work
in the Epson 1400 and R260. A second “Halleluiah Day” happened when
we were able to offer TransMagic!™ Pigment Inks for the Epson
R1800. We
also now offer TransMagic!™ Pigment2™ Inks for the Epson
R1900.  TransMagic!™
Inks - They work perfectly on our Alpha Double Green JetPro
SofStretch, Alpha Purple Cold and Alpha Gold Dark heat transfer papers.
They should work with other brands of heat transfer papers but we have done no
testing to support that idea and offer no guarantees. Our inks and paper
work on cotton, 50/50 cotton blends and canvasses. You should note that
some canvass is just too rough, to produce good heat transfers.
Printing
on photo paper – All four versions of TransMagic!™ Inks print outstanding
photographs. Printing
on regular paper – We printed on just about every type of regular
paper that we could find. All produced really excellent results.
Some of our Beta test sites (a few companies that tested with us during our trials
and slapped us down when it wasn’t right) felt like the colors were better
than regular ink cartridges. That’s their opinion, but we make no such claim.
The next
page details our MagicFlow!™ CIS™ ink delivery unit. This
unit, along with our TransMagic!™ Inks provides the highest
quality print and cheapest cost per print of anything that
we have been able to find.
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