Has anyone had any success printing glass worktop savers/placemats (265x195mm)..?
I'm trying to print up just one with a design of vibrant colours (reds, greens and yellows mostly). I initially did an order for a customer using ceramic tiles and they came out so good - so vibrant and colourful.
Now, with the glass worktop savers, the result is washed-out and dull. It looks kind of okay on the underside, but not when you look through the glass (which is, surely, the point!).
The worktop savers we used to have were excellent with superb colours. But the new version are just rubbish. It's as though not enough ink is being pulled through the white coating to show through the glass. The ink is coming off the paper well enough (you can tell when you're using TexPrint), so it's going somewhere - just not to the right place.
I've seen this happening on the newer type of glass coasters that have been coming through - they're not a patch on the original ones. It's as though whoever makes them is using an inferior white print coating.
I'm here trying different techniques, throwing away one placemat after another, but nothing is improving the situation. I wouldn't normally spend so much time, effort and money on a single placemat but this is the first time I've used these new glass worktop savers and I'd like to add them to my range, given that the older ones seem to be vanishing.
Should I just accept that these glass items are now inferior and they won't do the job, or has anyone had any success getting good vibrant colour through them?
I'm using Artanium ink and have tried both TexPrint and TruPix papers.