Inkjet Dyes

As the the name suggests, Inkjet dyes are the dyes that is applied in the Inkjet printers. These dyes are basically water soluble. The inkjet dyes are very well suited for applications that requires intensity and a wide range of colour gamut. Inkjet Dyes with the recent advances has overcome their earlier short comings of poor color fastness. Recent Inkjet dyes are as good as their pigment variants in terms of color fastness.

Volkem Chemical offers the list of products as given below :

Manufacturing dyes for water based inkjet inks is a bit of challenge the choice is a bit limited. This is primarily because the vehicle limits the type of dyes. It is a fact that water based ink would accept only dyes which are water soluble. Dyes that are selected for application in water based inkjet inks must provide colours that are highly saturated. They must scatter or refract only a very little quantity of light. Various class of dyestuffs has been formulated like reactive, direct, acid or base for application in delicate Inkjet Inks.

Essential Features
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• Very low salt content (e.g. Chloride, Sulfate, Calcium and Iron all below 50 ppm based on 100% dye).
• Excellent light fastness.
• High purity.
• High surface tension.
• Excellent tinctorial strength
• Brilliant and vibrant colors

Our chief products are:

• Cyan
• Magenta
• Yellow
• Black

Digital Textile Printing in nature is quite separate from traditional Textile Printing, that is the reason why digital textile printing is often termed as "the next generation printing". Our dyes for digital textile printing are typical for all the commercial grade. They are also compatible with low cost ink jet ink systems. The popular Dyes that are commonly used for digital textile Inks are Acid Dye, Reactive Dye and Disperse Dye. Our dyes for digital textile printing displays the following properties

• A low to medium salt content
• Fairly high surface tension
• Brilliant colours
• High lightfastness

Digital Textile Hyjet Colour Pigment Dispersion are premium quality aqueous suspensions of organic pigments in water. They impart bright and clean colors and a very fine particle size distribution enhances performance. They give high performances in thermal and piezo inkjet application.

Essential Features

• A very stable dispersion.
• Perfectly applicable for for both indoor and outdoor ink application.
• After dispersion into inkjet inks, the images on the paper show excellent light fastness and optical density over wide range of paper quality.
• Dispersion is perfectly compatible with most co-solvents, surfactants etc. That have popular usage in inkjet formulations.

Characteristics	Dispersion with very small particle size distribution Very good light-fastness and heat stability
Main Applications	Thermal and Piezo Inkjet Printing Office supplies (Water based inks, Gel inks, Indian inks)
Composition	Aqueous, dispersion of Organic Pigments (0.1% Proxel GXL); Contains 5% DEG
Form supplied	Aqueous pigment preparation
Dilution	With water and glycol in all proportions
Dispersion incorporation	Start formulation with pigment dispersion, add the solvent in the last step. (no high concentration solvent). Typical concentration in inks is about 20% to 25%
Packing	Available in 25 Kg carboys and 200 Kg barrels.