What is Gravure Ink? Gravure (Rotogravure) inks are solvent-based ink with low viscosity, which can be quickly dried by vaporization. The advantages of gravure printing lie in the high, consistent, and continuously reproducible print result. Further, the benefit of fast-drying ink contributes to an immediate post-finishing of the printed goods. The ink is usually used in commercial printing of fle...

Resins are the carrier of the pigment in the ink, which is the core material of the ink. Along with pigments, resins convey important properties to the printing process as part of the ink vehicle. Resins impart many important characteristics of a finished ink, including gloss and adhesion, runnability on the press, and can also help disperse pigment.   The quality of the ink will directly aff...

Requisite Properties •Printing : cylinder contamination, metastatic, electrostatic field, blocking ability •Post process : Laminate, Boil, Retort, etc. •Substance resistance : soup base, repellant, etc. •Film properties : scratch resistant, heat resistant, oil resistant Process While the press is in operation, the metal printing cylinder is partially immersed in the ink tray, filling the recessed ...

We all know that surface printing ink must emphasize their luster as the film can not be supplemented by light. However, polyamide resin has a problem with residual solvent. Because the plastic gravure printing process is mainly by hot air to dry, hot air to dry the ink surface, the drying mechanism is from the outside dry, from the outside in, gradually dry out. But since the outside dries first,...

Due to today's overall environmental protection and resource conservation, water-based inks have received widespread attention from inside and outside the industry due to their unique environmental performance, and have become the main direction of the current ink industry development. So, what is the advantages of water-based Inks? Waterborne ink features and advantages: 1. Water-based ink is a n...

Shipping costs have been rising steadily since Autumn 2020. The first few months of 2021 have seen price surges across numerous freight rates along primary trade routes, with prices for some trade lanes tripling as compared to last year. What caused container freight rate to rise so much? Figure : Shanghai containerized freight index, weekly spot rates, 18 December 2009–9 April 2021...

1. Classification -  Laminating inks for reverse gravure printing - Solvent based inks. 2. Features and Uses - OPP ink is a type of gravure laminating ink system, was applied for treated OPP, BOPP film with surface tension more than 38 dyne/cm. - OPP ink supports extrusion laminating to give ideal laminating strength for Polypropylene (PP) resin. - Good ink transfer and printability 3. Applic...