How To Set Up A Color Packer Tattoo Machine

A color packer needs to be running slow and soft.

How to set up a color packer tattoo machine. Bad hand gesture can also throw a wrench in your tattooing. If you are going to be setting up a tattoo machine for use on a client it is very important to keep the instrument sterile so wear rubber gloves during the entire process. If it can be pulled free with out catching you have a proper gap. Color packers are very slow hard hitting machines.

They are usually set up with stiff springs and bigger coil cores and a heavy armature bar creating a huge magnet that just saturates the skin. Make sure to pivot the contact screw tip to the dead center of the tube vice. Unless you choose to use a cutback. Since black ink is typically thinner than most color pigment you may not need this wide of a gap.

Remove the needle from the blister pack and grip the circular end firmly with one hand. How to tune color packer and shader. I typically run about a 4mm gap or two nickels on my color machines. Setting up the machine.

Put on a pair of rubber gloves. If your doing a lot of say american traditional or heavy color work you might actually be better just tweaking your liner a little and using it to run lines and shade just adjust speed and volts accordingly and set the other one up with a heavy a bar and make it your color packer. Color packers have a much longer stroke so you will notice the gap a little more.