SBK paper inks - Screen printing in WHITE color on BLACK

A few months ago we met Martí Alcon, an illustrator from Olesa de Montserrat (Cat), you can visit him on his Instagram account or visit his Website.

We have been lucky and he has allowed us to share part of a self-published book, entirely made by him, using SBK Paper Inks for screen printing from our website.

In his book, he plays with colors by printing directly on black cardboard, achieving a very opaque white color.

To achieve a perfect white color, the ink was used directly as it comes in the container, and to achieve the other opaque colors, a bit of white paper ink was mixed with the color to be printed.

SBK paper inks are transparent or semi-transparent, they cover perfectly on light backgrounds but not on dark ones. The only ones that are fully opaque are white, black, and colors like gold and silver. If we want any of the transparent colors to be more opaque, the best is to use Martí Alcon's trick and mix the color with white ink.

In the following image, you can see how the green and red colors are completely opaque. The white color has only one pass of ink; it is recommended to do two passes if we want a pure white. (The color is not fully visible in the photos)

In the following photo, the blue color has a bit of white to make it opaque, while the brown color is the direct color without mixing. We can see that it covers very well over the blue but being semi-transparent, when it touches the black color it does not cover it completely. In the brown/blue square in the center, the difference between printing over the ink itself and over the black cardboard is clearly visible.

In the case of yellow and green ink, they are not mixed with white ink; they are transparent colors.

SBK professional screen printing paper inks are specially designed and manufactured for paper. They are produced in Belgium in the most environmentally friendly way possible.