Welcome to the latest post in the “Shift Happens” series. In this post, we will focus on aqueous ink chemistry and factors affecting color shift. Knowing the type of ink and understanding its chemistry is just as important as understanding how it reacts to your surface conditions. Find out why.
Heavy Ink Coverage and Twice the Drying Power
Printing from the first tower allows ink twice as long to dry helping reduce roller build up and print defects in finishing.
Two Sides of Coated Paper
If you are using inkjet coated or primed offset coated paper, different papers will have different porosity levels on each side of the sheet.
Tortured Paper Tortures Finishing – Video
Mark Hunt of Standard Finishing talks about the many ways that inkjet printing poses challenges for finishing vendors and how those challenges can be overcome. Over drying, not dry enough, curl and static are just a few of the fun facts of high-speed inkjet printing.
Inkjet Ink and its Important Additives
Mark Bale provides an overview of the important differences in inkjet ink characteristics that come from various components such as resins, solvents, humectants and surfactants. With an understanding of these components and how OEMs use them to differentiate their inks, you’ll be better informed next time you have a conversation with your supplier.
Understand Drying Differences
The wrong drying configuration on an #inkjet press can torture the paper without properly drying the ink. Learn about the best drying options to match your type of work, ink type and coverage.
Pigment Ink and Creme Brûlée
As inkjet moves into applications with high ink coverage and quality demands, users can run into some hard to diagnose problems. If you only focus on the paper and the print heads when trying to diagnose print quality issues, you could struggle for a long time looking in the wrong places.
HP Drying Options and Tradeoffs – Video
Eric Weisner, General Manager of HP PageWide Industrial Division on the drying options HP offers with their production inkjet line-up and the speed, coverage and cost trade-offs to consider.