LFP - Large-Format-Printing
High-density white ink expands range of applications
Monday 23. June 2008 - New innovative SS21 white solvent ink for JV33 series.
Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of wide-format inkjet printers and cutting machines for the sign/graphics, industrial markets and textile/apparel, is pleased to announce its new white solvent ink to be used in its award-winning JV33 series of wide format solvent inkjet printers. The whiteness of the ink has been decisively improved, to significantly widen the design possibilities for both outdoor and indoor graphics.
When printing white ink as an under layer for full color on transparent media the media has to be re-fed in order to print the color on top of the white layer. This often leads to registration problems. To eliminate such Mimaki has developed “White ink overlay printing” which allows simultaneous white and full color printing. Mimakis new feature for the JV33 enables accurate output of vivid full color graphics with white under layer.
While the new white ink retains the advantageous features of SS21 inks such as fast drying and a wide color gamut, the whiteness and opacity are decisively improved. This new white ink enables simultaneous high speed printing of white and color thereby facilitating many more design effects. In addition the pigments in the white ink have been improved in order to prevent a shift of whiteness due to sedimentation. White ink, which uses heavy inorganic pigments such as sand, is liable to sedimentation. When this occurs only the upper part of the fluid is extracted, resulting in color shift. The new white SS21 ink reduces this undesired effect considerably and enables stable and dense white printing.
“Our new enhanced white SS21 ink enables designers to produce highly creative graphics on various materials such as transparent film or colored media. Now they can produce the same vivid images with white under and overlay which was previously available only on flatbed printers”, says Mr. Isao Tabayashi, General Manager of IM (Ink and Media) Division. “We are pleased that this innovation offers our customers further capabilities to distinguish themselves from their competition.”