Videojet has released three new Ultra High Speed (UHS) inks, V516-D, V517-D and V530-D, for its line of UHS continuous ink jet printers.
The coding, marking, and printing products manufacturer says the new inks join a family of ten other UHS compatible inks that have been “extensively tested across a broad range of print speeds and environmental condition extremes”.
Designed for optimal drop formation, Videojet UHS inks are held to the highest quality control standards, meaning customers can experience top print quality at the highest speeds, according to the company.
“We developed the UHS inks to provide exceptional coding quality that our high speed application customers have come to rely on,” said John Kirschner, Videojet supplies business manager.
V516-D is a black, non-colour changing retortable ink designed for better code durability, and able to withstand tough high-temperature steam/water bath processes commonly used in cooking prepared food containers after filling and sealing.
V517-D MEK-free thermochromic ink changes from black to blue when coding onto heat-processed food containers made of a variety of metal, plastic and glass substrates. It provides good durability as well as superior adhesion through the rigorous cooking/retort process, and can also serve as a general purpose black ink for food and pharmaceutical applications.
V530-D, a MEK-free, fast-dry general purpose black ink, has “excellent adhesion” on plastics, metals, paper, wood, ceramic and glass, and is specially designed for printing onto various hard-to-code plastics such as untreated polyethylene and polypropylene substrates typically found in the food packaging industry.
“Our family of UHS inks continues to grow with the addition of these three new inks – each specially engineered for unique coding applications.”
