Ink is an essential colorant in the printing process, without ink to add color to the product, printing will lose its meaning. So, do you know what ingredients are in ink? Below, screen printing ink Xiaobian to tell you.
Colorful colors give the world a lot of beauty, and these colors can also be used in printing technology, draw a series of beautiful patterns. Ink in the end what are the components that can make the color stick to the substrate?
1. Linking material: it is a kind of liquid glue, can stick the pigment on the substrate, played a very obvious decorative role. Through the connecting material we can also see the viscosity of ink drying speed and flow performance, the connecting material must choose high quality, the main component of the connecting material is vegetable oil or mineral oil, resin is not less.
2 pigment: pigment is actually a colored solid material, it is difficult to dissolve in water, and the connecting material is not soluble, generally will be suspended, color is very beautiful, saturation, transparency is good. The other dyes are different, highly soluble, but also have their own advantages, but can be used in printing inks.
3. Additives: from the literal meaning of understanding, in fact, is to help ink to play a better role. Ink additives can make the performance of ink better. Such as plasticizer to increase the plasticity of ink, improve the softness of ink; Thinners make ink thinner, so that ink has better mobility; Adhesive removal agent can make the ink viscosity smaller; Drier also called desiccant, ink can accelerate drying.