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Article | REF: AG6701 V1

Packaging graphic chain - Printing activity

Author: Bernard PETIT

Publication date: January 10, 2011 | Lire en français

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    3. Inks

    The aim of printing is to fix a decoration (a sign, a text, a logo, an image, etc.) on a support.

    Printing inks are therefore necessarily composed of a colored material and a transit vehicle (the varnish), whose function is to deposit and fix this color on paper, aluminum, cardboard, plastic film...

    Liquid or pasty preparations for marking, decorating and protection, inks are generally composed of four categories of substances:

    • colorants ;

    • binders ;

    • solvents ;

    • auxiliary agents.

    3.1 Colorants

    Also known as "tinctorial materials", they guarantee :...

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