Which Kind Printing Ink Better for Your Business & Saving the Cost?

Hi, nice to see you again, my dear friends! A week will over again. Today's topic is about printer ink. There are several different types in regular use in digital printing, each with very different characteristics. Those characteristics are what you need to understand when making your investment decisions, because they can make a big difference in cost and quality.

The core of any inkjet printing system is the ink, which is essentially pigment suspended in a carrier liquid. The job of the ink is to deliver the pigment to the media and to bind it to the media’s surface. The range of substrates that the ink will work with, ultimately determines the applications that a printing engine can handle.

Make the wrong choice, and you will be disappointed with the results. Ink vendors are currently working to expand the range of substrates their inks will work with directly, so that substrates don’t need to be treated with a primer.

Ink manufacturers see huge potential beyond the graphic arts into more industrial uses for their ink products, such as furniture and car manufacturing. The carrier liquid plays a key role in determining which substrates the inks will work with.

Water is the cheapest and most sustainable carrier, but once it has delivered the pigment to the media, the water then has to be dried. Since water tends to soak into uncoated media, this also means that water-based inks can only print to coated media, and though there’s a fairly wide range of suitable substrates, this does push up the cost of consumables.

Nonetheless, standard aqueous ink printers are relatively cheap and have excellent colour fidelity. Typically aqueous inks can produce very sharp images with vibrant colours, and most vendors have models with up to twelve inks for increased colour gamut. This makes them suitable for producing photographic and fine art posters. Images from these printers are normally thought of as for indoor use only, however they can be laminated for outdoor use as well.

Material printed with aqueous inks is particularly suitable for retail point of purchase signs because it doesn’t give off the unpleasant odours common with some solvent and UV inks. The majority of textile printing also uses water based dye sublimation inks that are suitable for printing to polyester fabrics. The water acts as a carrier to place the pigment, either directly onto the fabric or onto a transfer sheet.

A heat press is then used to boil the inks to a gas, driving the pigment into the textile fibres, so that when the inks cool down the image has fused with the fabric, rather than simply sitting on top of its surface.


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Do You Know the Advantages of the Sublimation Ink & the UV Ink,What Are The Applications of Them?

Hi, Nice to see you.It's a sunny day in Nanjing.Today the topic is about the advantages of dye subliamtion ink and UV ink,and introduce some application about these two kinds ink. first of all ,I introduce dye sublimation ink to you! Read the following and I will share you more.

The dye sublimation inks are a pigment suspended in a liquid solvent, like water. The images are initially printed on coated heat-resistant transfer paper as a reverse image of the final design, which is then transferred onto polyester fabric in a heat press operating at a temperature around 180 to 210 C (375 F).There are many advantages of dye sublimation ink,such as Good image printing, ,waterproof, washing standing and so on.

Sublimation inks produce brilliant colour and good light fastness when applied to polyester and polyester coated substrates. Applying heat to the printed image with a press, whether through transfer paper or directly, fixes these vivid inks into the polyester substrate allowing the item to be washed time and time again.Sublimation inks mianly used for Textile,Hardware ,fashion,polyester,sports weard and so on.

Next,UV inks are rising in popularity for several reasons. Water-based inks are cumbersome to dry and solvent-based inks require removal of part of the solvent, after transfer, which is challenging to dispose of with environmental regulations. Both water-based inks and solvent-based inks require a drying process which takes time and also reduces the efficacy of the ink as ink costs in volume and around 40% of the ink base is lost in drying or curing.

UV inks offer many benefits such as being more environmentally friendly than solvent-based inks, good opacity, light-fastness, resistance to smearing, sharp contrast, and a nice gloss. The UV inks, again because of the lack of evaporative agents, will maintain consistency throughout the whole press run, never getting thick or sticky.

Even water-based inks often use chemical catalyst components that require harsh cleaners to remove, when cleaning the printing equipment. Cleaning must be done on a regular basis to prevent the plugging of the printing cells, leading to high costs over time. Thus UV inks save time, money, and environmental waste by greatly reducing the need for cleaning.

Okay, These all above are my share about the advantages of dye subliamtion ink and UV ink.what's more ,you can learn something about their applicatons. If you have any other needs or questions welcome to contact us at any time. We will provide you the best quality product and service. Hope my article can be useful to you. Thank you for your reading.

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