Modern Technology of Printing & Writing Inks

Printing is widely used in our society to pass on information and to decorate objects. Special inks have been developed for use in these different situations. Today inks are divided into two classes: printing inks and writing inks. Printing inks are further broken down into two subclasses: ink for conventional printing, in which a mechanical plate comes in contact with or transfers an image to the paper or object being printed on; and ink for digital nonimpact printing. Printing is a process for reproducing text and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing. There are various kind of printing processes; the letterpress process, the offset lithographic process, the gravure process, halftone process, flexographic process, screen printing process and non-impact printing process. The major type of letter press ink are rotary ink (book ink, magazine ink, heat set ink), quickset ink, high gloss ink, moisture set ink, water washable ink, news ink. The printing and writing Ink industries have grown significantly during the last decade. Particularly printing ink industry is characterized by exceeding high margin profit. Inks are found in almost every aspect of human activity. The major content of the book are visual characteristics of inks, the color of inks, the transparency and opacity of printing inks, the gloss of printing inks, the nature of printing inks as determined by the printing process, the adhesive nature of printing inks, the resistance properties of printing inks, the printing processes, the letterpress process, press configurations, inks for day offset application on plastics and metal, ultraviolet curable silk screen, ultraviolet curable varnish and coatings, non impact printing etc. This book also consists of list of India standards of inks and allied process, list of suppliers of printing and writing ink machinery, etc in directory section. Having in view we have published this book which will be mile stone for the entrepreneurs, existing units, libraries etc. The book contains formulae, processes and other related information of various printing and writing inks.