How To Set Up A Color Packer Tattoo Machine

These kits aren t high in quality but they are great for beginning to operate and maintain a tattoo machine.

How to set up a color packer tattoo machine.

A set up that is cheaper could hurt or infect someone or result in a low quality tattoo. On my color packer i use 2 nickel air gap. Starter kits are great because they offer all the parts you need for tattooing. Everybody will have their preferences and so anything you here on volts gaps springs etc is only a guide line or starting point from which you can tune your machine.

Consider the quality of your machine before tattooing anyone. How to set up a tattoo machine for coloring. Specially with fk irons machines. So i need a second coil machine but i dont know what would work better getting a shader machine and crank it up when i want to pack in color or get a color packer and lower de voltage when i want to do shading.

If you are chewing up the skin you are either going too deep or making too many passes over the same area or running your machine too hard. Easily paints the color with any magnum up to 25 and easily makes shadows to 35 magnums. Its really important to find the right flow rythm and speed to keep from damaging the skin and still fully saturate the ink but with a machine set up like this it makes the job much easier. I typically run about a 4mm gap or two nickels on my color machines.

Pro shader color packer ideal for tight fast and atraumatic input of any kind of pigments king of all color packers machine for every day. When getting a tattoo it is important for tattoo artists to use a different needle each time so that the tattoo is sanitary and people do not pass on infections from one client to the other. Mags on the other hand are far more common. Dispense all the colors you will need for the tattoo into separate color cups.

A color packer needs to be running slow and soft. My color packer runs as at a bout 5 to 5 5 and packs the shit out of color and black. I would appreciate any feedback from you guys. Setting up a machine with a different purpose might prove to be a challenge.

A shader is will be set quick to get smooth shading and gradients it will run faster than a color packer but slower than a liner a color packer should run smoother and slower to get a clean even fill.