Special inks have a wide range of industrial applications

Special inks are inks with special properties or special applications. A wide range of specialty inks include: UV inks, liquid crystal inks, photochromic inks, fragrance inks, pearlescent inks, and inkjet printing inks. With the increase in consumer demand for printing quality, people have higher requirements for ink. Various special inks are used in the field of special printing. They not only make the quality of printed products excellent, but also meet the needs of various special functions such as environmental protection and anti-counterfeiting.

Green ink can meet people's requirements for non-toxic, non-polluting printing. At present, there are mainly water-based inks, UV inks, water-based UV inks, and some alcohol-soluble inks. At this year's China International Special Printing Exhibition, Tianjin Toyo Ink Co., Ltd. introduced TK THK AFSOY soyoil offset bright fast-drying inks that use aromatic-free solvents and use renewable resources as soybean oil as a carrier to reduce environmental pollution and to operators. The harm, so as to promote the development of printing ink to green, is a new type of environmentally friendly ink. This product has obtained the United States Soybean Oil Association environmental certification, suitable for high-speed offset printing machine printing coated paper, white board paper and other printing substrates, can print high-grade pictures, pictorials, trademarks, brochures and fine paper packaging and decoration products. The GS5 series alcohol-soluble composite inks exhibited by YIP's Ink (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd. are also environmentally-friendly inks. GS5 series alcohol-soluble composite inks are formulated with synthetic resins that do not contain benzene and ketone solvents, and are suitable for residual solvent requirements. Very strict food packaging, can be used for gravure and flexo printing, in line with the requirements of environmental protection. The WGT water-based gravure ink introduced by Hanghua Ink Chemical Co., Ltd. is a high-grade water-based gravure ink designed for the gravure printing of paper. Can meet the requirements of high-speed, high-precision gravure printing, but also meet the requirements of health and environmental protection, is a green environment-friendly ink.

The anti-counterfeit development of ink is also a market development trend. Anti-counterfeiting ink refers to the ink with anti-counterfeiting effect, that is, adding special anti-counterfeiting material to the ink connecting material, and special ink processed through special process. It is also composed of three parts: color material, connecting material and ink auxiliary agent. Anti-counterfeit inks rely on the special functions of pigments and binders in inks to provide anti-counterfeiting effects. The TAF offset printing security ink introduced by Tianjin Toyo Ink is a newly introduced high-tech product with unique features such as high anti-counterfeiting performance, low cost, and easy detection. It is suitable for printing coated paper on offset printing machines and convex printing machines. , Whiteboard paper, cardboard and other printed substrates, used in printing various trademarks, packaging and decoration products, anti-counterfeiting marks, in the anti-counterfeiting products play an increasingly important role.

Reprinted from: Global Chemical Network