If you’ve ever wanted your prints to feel as soft as they look, Wilflex Epic Fashion Soft Base is your new best friend. By blending this base into your inks, you can transform the hand feel of a plastisol print into something smooth, light, and retail-ready. In this project, we used Fashion Soft Base on Jerzees Premium Cotton 570MR shirts to create vibrant colors that look bold and feel buttery soft. Here’s how it came together.
What Fashion Soft Base Does
Plastisol inks are durable, but they can sometimes feel heavy on a garment. Adding Fashion Soft Base (up to 10% of your ink mix) reduces that thickness, leaving your print flexible and smooth. The end result is a soft hand feel that pairs perfectly with premium blanks like the 570MR.
Why Print on Jerzees Premium Cotton 570MR?
The blank matters just as much as the ink. The Jerzees 570MR offers:
- Premium combed ring-spun cotton for superior softness
- Sustainably-sourced, USA-grown cotton
- Classic fit for broad appeal
- Tear-away label for easy relabeling
- Seamless 1x1 rib collar and clean neckline
- Durable construction with shoulder-to-shoulder taping and double-needle hems
This shirt provides the perfect smooth canvas to show off what Fashion Soft Base can do.
Mixing Custom Inks with Fashion Soft Base
For this project, we used the Wilflex Epic RIO mixing system to blend Pantone-matched colors. Once the base colors were measured out, we added Fashion Soft Base at 10% of the total ink weight. By adding the base first into the container, we ensured smooth mixing and minimal waste.
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On-Press Setup
Registration was carefully locked in before ink went down. The print order went from darkest to lightest — dark pink, light pink, then white highlight. This preserved vibrancy and contrast. We used a 70 durometer squeegee for smooth deposits and kept mesh counts balanced (230 mesh for dark pink, 158 mesh for lighter colors and white).
The Results
The finished prints on both Mint To Be and Sunset Coral Jerzees 570MR blanks looked sharp, colorful, and incredibly soft. The contrast between the shirt color and the custom inks made the design pop, while Fashion Soft Base ensured the print felt light in-hand. Paired with the blank’s tear-away label and retail-ready construction, the final product was polished and ready to impress a customer.
Fashion Soft Base gives your prints the softness today’s customers expect. Try it on Jerzees Premium Cotton 570MR or your favorite blank, and take your prints from good to great.