Consumables-Ink - UV/UV LED Offset

Consumers place a great deal of trust in brands to provide safe food products, and it’s up to converters and brand owners to develop packaging that ensures food safety.

EFI has received an additional validation from the Western Michigan University Recycling, Paper and Coating Pilot Plant that further verifies the recycling and repulpability of boards printed with white EFI Nozomi LED-UV inks.

Ink manufacturer Zeller+Gmelin has announced it has expanded its low-migration ink portfolio, with a new series of scale colors for LED-UV sheetfed and web offset printing. With its low-migration and low odor characteristics, the new series of inks is particularly well-suited for food packaging applications.

New offerings from INX are meeting the needs of corrugated printers and converters head-on, with new ink sets that complement single-pass printing technologies, a new water-based primer and formulations that reduce overall printing emissions. PRINTING United Booth 10555.

Dantex has announced it will be showcasing an expanding inkjet lineup at Labelexpo Europe 2019, including the latest advancements on its PicoJet range, as well as its versatile PicoColour 210RF label press.

The new ink is designed to be easily dispensed through standard UV flexo dispensers.

Flint Group has launched its new generation of sheetfed UV low migration inks. Created out of a new resin technology system, these inks are the first in a series of advanced energy curing products from Flint Group to be launched in 2017.

ACTEGA North America will release its complete ACTExact UV ink system and ACTDigi narrow-web in-line primers at Labelexpo Americas. The company will also be featuring its special effect coating line, including MotionCoat Technology.

For LogoTech (Fairfield, N.J.), UV printing has been a way of life since its inception. Although UV colors are often vibrant and cleanup simplified, there are environmental considerations to address.

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of ink-substrate interactions: desirable and undesirable. Desirable ink-substrate interactions are defined by their outcome: satisfactory ink adhesion; appropriate scuff-, weather-, or moisture-resistance; light-fastness, color-fastness, printability, etc. Undesirable interactions fail on one or more counts.