What are the green environmental protection standards for uv ink printing?

What are the green environmental protection standards for uv ink printing?

author: Uvink

2023-03-22

The characteristics of uv ink are instant curing, fast printing speed, drying time of uv ink

is only a few tenths to a few seconds, small dot expansion, almost no ink penetration,

less ink consumption, and obvious color strength, clarity and stability of printed matter

Better than ordinary offset inks. It has good adhesion fastness, good printing suitability,

excellent print performance, fine uv ink particles, high color strength, stable viscosity,

high imprinting solid content, good dot reproduction, full and bright color, suitable for

spot color as an anti-counterfeiting mark One packaged product.

In the printing industry, uv offset printing inks are used in the packaging and trademark

printing fields of tobacco, alcohol, food and pharmaceutical industries. There are relevant

industry regulations and environmental protection requirements in various industries.

As an indispensable part of printing products, ink must meet the relevant industry regulations

and printing green environmental protection standards of the target product before

it can be put into production.

In China, because uv ink and uv printing are "imported products", there are no specific and

executable industry standards. It was not until 2006 that the industry standard QB/T2826-2006 "

uv Curable Inks for Offset Printing" was formulated under the organization of the National Ink

Standardization Technical Committee. Since then, China's uv ink manufacturers have had

standards to follow and can implement them in accordance with uv ink Xinhua's green

environmental protection standards. Fortunately, although China lacked green environmental

protection standards for uv inks in the past, it did not restrict the development and progress of

this industry. Some ink manufacturers take green environmental protection as the primary

principle, strictly require themselves, use high-purity raw materials, and limit the content of

toxic and harmful substances such as heavy metals, benzene, plasticizers, and ketones.

Today, after about ten years of development, uv ink and uv printing have become the mainstay

of the printing industry. At the same time, uv inks are in urgent need of new green

standards that meet national conditions.

For example, in the electronic and electrical industry, because halogens will reduce the

electrical properties of soldered products and cause corrosion, and electronic waste and

plastic products containing halogen compounds are prone to produce dioxin-like compounds,

which cause health hazards through bioaccumulation . Therefore, printing products used

in the electrical and electronic industry must meet international halogen-free standards.