What is UV ink? What are the advantages of UV ink printing?

Anyone in the printing industry doesn’t know UV ink. If you hear this term for the first time, it means that you don’t know the industry deeply;

It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand, let’s talk about it below. , What is UV ink?

As for the word UV, I believe you must know it (if you don’t understand, read this article: What does UV mean in UV printers?)

Baidu Baike explains it like this:

One: The pigment particle diameter in UV ink is less than 1 micron, does not contain volatile organic solvents, has ultra-low viscosity, and has no irritating odor; it can ensure that the ink is in the jet printing process There is no clogging of the nozzle. After six months of high temperature storage test, there is no abnormal phenomenon such as pigment aggregation, sinking, and delamination.

Two: UV ink is suitable for printing metal, glass, ceramics, PC, PVC, ABS and other materials.

Three: UV inks are available in C, M, Y, K, LC, LM, white, transparent, 8 colors, and light fastness level 7-8

4: After curing The ink layer has high hardness, good adhesion, scrub resistance, solvent resistance, and high gloss.

In fact, UV ink and UV printer are matched, UV printer + UV ink u003d product output. The curing principle is: the ultraviolet wave emitted by the LED cold light source lamp on the UV printer reacts with the photosensitive curing agent in the uv ink, causing the pigment molecules in the uv ink to solidify on the surface of the material, so that the product is ready to be dried. The effect of;

So we can get the characteristics of UV ink:

1: The pigment molecules are straight and small, which is not easy to block the nozzle

2: Non-toxic, non-irritating odor and environmental protection

3: Suitable for printing a variety of materials, wide application range

4: Rich color, full effect, high reduction degree

5: Hit and dry, not easy to fade

6: Broad market prospects

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