James Burbidge of adphos describes the drivers for water-based inks, and the challenges faced in drying them. You can hear more from Adphos at the Inkjet Drying & Curing course, part of the IMI Europe Inkjet Summer School.
Development of aqueous pigmented inkjet inks for industrial applications
With inkjet printing rapidly proving itself as a true production process within the area of industrial printing, we as inkjet ink developers need to keep up with the pace and develop new fluids for these applications. Aqueous inks for industrial inkjet printing are potentially advantageous for many different applications. However, delivering the right functionality in a formulation with the constraints imposed by inkjet printing is no easy task.