Alcohol Solvent Versatile Ink

Special ink for flatbed inkjet printer

Our present inkjet printer can only print soft media, no hard media, especially the thickness can’t be over 1.5 mm. It subscribes the application of inkjet printers. Many people notice the advantages of inkjet printers and the subscription phenomenon of inkjet printers. About 8 years ago, it appeared update inkjet printers. They can flatbed inkjet printers that can direct print on hard media. Later they were called “magic printer” on the Internet.

Magic flatbed inkjet printers mainly upgrade the EPSON micro piezoelectric inkjet printer. At first people mainly use them to print T-shirts. At present the market need the ink that can print on many hard materials. That is so-called magic ink. Because now water-based dye and pigment ink used in flatbed printers can’t print on coated hard materials, people try to develop solvent ink, matched with coated materials to print on hard material by flatbed printers. It can expand the application fields of flatbed printers.

The flatbed printers upgrade EPSON inkjet printers, including desktop home version, office version and wide format micro piezoelectric inkjet printers. But over 95% of EPSON inkjet printers use water-based ink. The ink road is not resistant to erosion. Consider this, the solvent inkjet printers ink should not have erosion to the ink road, and has good adhesive ability to solvent coated layer, and waterproof, anti-scratch and sunproof. In recent 3 years the market developed ink for flatbed inkjet printers. The solvent ink is mainly alcohol or ether solvent. The raw material is dye. The ink has some adhesives. When the ink appears, the flatbed printers can basically print on many hard materials.

Due to “magic ink”, magic flatbed printers can print patterns on any materials that have coated surface, and also can print on any irregular soft and hard objects. The media are metal, porcelain, crystal, glass, acrylic, PVC, plastic, toys, leather, U disk, cloth, wood and silicon etc. No matter simple color design or full color pictures or transition color patterns, it can complete printing at one time, without plate making, plate bask or repeat color process. The color is gorgeous, effect is vivid, and pictures are waterproof, anti-abrasion and strong adhesive. Because the machines operation is easy and steady, recently there has been many upgrade enterprises, mainly in Guangdong.

The so-called “magic ink” refers to the ink that can be applied in flatbed inkjet printers, and print patterns on coated media. The ink should not erode ink road, and is waterproof, anti-scratch, and anti-color fading. People call the ink eco solvent ink.

Magic ink can do uncoated print on some media such as wood board, or through printer heating system. But to some smooth surface, the ink can’t do, because the ink will accumulate together, and can’t clearly form the image. Then it must match with special coating solution. The coating layers of magic flatbed printers are mainly absorb ink to form the image and increase image adhesive ability. Magic flatbed printers uncoated layers are related to material and ink. One material matches one coated layer. And at the same time it should consider ink property. At present the deficiencies of flatbed printing ink are no sunproof, alcohol proof ability is weak, same color different spectrum phenomenon is severe, ink cover ability is bad, some ink’s erosion is serious, and will shorten the lifespan of the equipment due to severe ink fly.

After many years’ research, Juli successfully developed this ink. The ink is waterproof, anti-scratch and sunproof. No same color different spectrum phenomenon. Ink’s cover ability is good, erosion is small. Basically no lifespan change due to ink fly. Fluency is good. Gamut is wide. Color density is high. It has wide adaptability to media.

The environmental pigment resin ink developed by Juli Company is safe, environmentally friendly and no smell. By using our environmental pigment resin ink on micro piezoelectric inkjet printers, you can print on most common media for offset printers, and will have the exact same samples with offset printers. The printing media include copper paper, white card, white board, gold and silver paper, craft paper, BOPP membrane, PE membrane, PET film, PVC card, metal board, cloth, leather and wallpaper etc. The printing speed can be 10-30m2/hour (eg. Japan EPSON-7880, 9880, 7910, and 9910, or MUTOH-900C or 1640 micro piezoelectric wide format inkjet printers. Solution can be 1440*1440dpi, 1440*720dpi, and 720*720 dpi. The images printed have the same solution with offset printers.) The color density can be and surpass offset printing ink. The gamut on common media reaches the standards of offset printing. The ink is environmentally friendly (Pass SGS authentication), waterproof, anti-scratch, sunproof, no erosion and no smell.