Printmaking & Textile Inks – Opus Art Supplies

Speedball Block Printing inks are a water-soluble option to block printing. Choose between a range of colours for your block printing needs.

Lightfastness: Excellent

These professional quality inks are perfect for your fabric screenprinting. They are opaque, lightfast, and washfast when properly heatset. They are great on cotton and linen, as well as on synthetic fibres such as polyester blends and rayon. Non-toxic.

Speedball Fabric Block Printing Inks print on a range of fabrics with bold, opaque colour. They dry to the touch overnight, and remain permanent through the wash, without any heat setting required.

These oil-based inks work well on cotton, polyester blends, linen, rayon, and other synthetic fibres (not for use on nylon). They can also be printed onto paper and cardboard. The ink cleans up easily with soap and water.

Features & Recommendations:

• Recommended fabric: Cotton, polyester blends, linen, rayon, and other synthetic fibres (not for use on nylon)
• Works great on paper and cardboard
• Clean up easily with soap and water
• Printed fabric is ready for the wash 7 days after ink is dry
• Ink on fabric will remain permanent on fabric through the wash
• Ink on fabric won’t crack or peel over time
• Launder preferably with cool water and mild soap

Akua Intaglio Inks deliver brilliant colors, intense blacks and unmatched working properties. They dry through absorption-they will not dry on the printmaking plate-and clean up easily with soap and water. These inks are ideal for Intaglio/Etching, Monotype, Gel Printing, and Collagraph printmaking and can be used with Akua Liquid Pigment® and select Akua Modifiers.

All Akua Intaglio colors carry the AP Seal.

8 oz jars.

Speedball has developed a line of artist-quality relief inks that are a water-miscible, oil-based printmaking ink. With the highest quality, lightfast pigments and no fillers, the results are rich, intense, crisp prints with archival qualities that artists demand.

The ink is formulated with the working properties artists desire - inks roll-out consistently, transfer beautifully, and hold even the finest details. Most importantly, they easily clean up with soap and water!

Made from high quality pigments, Speedball Oil-Based Block Printing Inks are formulated to be permanent, waterproof and archival.

All colours carry the AP Seal, and clean up with vegetable oil.

Speedball Acrylic Screen Printing Ink is ideal for use on paper, card stock, wood, and some vinyls. These inks combine excellent lightfastness with ease of clean-up, water-resistance when dry, and vivid colours with a matte surface finish. They are non-toxic and quick drying.

With only the 3 Process Colours, Black, and White, you can achieve a huge range of colours by mixing or layering.

Gamblin Etching Inks are strong and reliable, making them an ideal choice when you are printing editions. They have a very high pigment load, and are free of additives and extenders, giving them excellent value.

Try the transparent ink conditioner to add some transparency to your printing inks.