I am having trouble keeping the color when printing with plastisol pantone 200c red mixed with puff additive, after the drying process the ink turns "pink" and does not maintain the 200c red in which I need. Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated.

That's typical and the puff base normally turns white when it puffs in the heat of the oven. Usually that has been difficult in my experience to match colors perfectly with puff. If the ink can be mixed with the puff as the white somehow then maybe. But normally red with any white turns pinkish. Perhaps someone else has an idea for that but I don't recall any myself sorry.

Thank you for your response, we had the 200c pre-mixed by our ink supplier but with the same result, so as you stated the result was pinkish even from them. Is it a dead end street then I wonder? This was my first time on your site, very educational for sure. I plan to be back often, certainly a lot of knowledge to be gained. Thank you again for your prompt reply. MF

You're very welcome, my pleasure to help out.

Yeah I do not know of anyway around it honestly. It's the nature of adding white to red.

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you could try making the red darker to offset the white from the puff additive. find out where on the PMS chart you're ending up and go backwards from 200 and you could end up where you need to be. absolute value so to speak. it might be worth a try if you're already eating the cost of the prints that turned pink.