![]() When it comes to quality generally spoken dye ink wins. The print is water-resistant as long as the label does not rub against anything disturbing. They may come off when get-ting in contact with water unless printed on special coated label material. Advantages of dye inkĭye inks are able to provide softer colours which look more vivid and brilliant than the pigment ink. Pigment ink has a superior UV resistance and therefore is selected when many years of indoor use or up to two years of outdoor life is required with little fading. If exposed daily to direct sunlight or bright indoor lights, dye inks may start to fade quickly. Dye ink, generally, is recommended for indoor use on products that will be consumed in less than a year. It is hard to tell the difference between dye and pigment ink when comparing quality not looking side by side.Īll inks, whether dye or pigment, will begin to fade over time. Both the vibrancy and colour reproduction look very similar. Initial print quality between dye and pigment ink is virtually the same. The print is water-resistant as long as the label does not rub against any-thing disturbing. The water soluble dye can be seen as sugar that dissolves in water and the pigments as sand mixed in water.ĭye based inks are able to provide a wider colour space for more vibrant and colourful prints, but will come off when getting in contact with water unless printed on special coated label material. ![]() Which ink type is best for the print?ĭye ink uses colour substances that are dissolved in a liquid while pigment ink uses small colour particles that are held in a suspension. Using a label printer with both options you have the opportunity to choose between dye-based and pigment-based ink. When we pull the string on it, we will become partners so to speak.Some inkjet printers use dye based ink, some use pigment based ink and some has both as option, like the well-known Primera label printers LX910e and LX500e. I have 100% faith in him and his machines. I know my next machine will be a CET and I know for a fact Dave is a real stand up person. That just takes better planning on our part. One other thing we do is to not cut anything for at least 24 hours if at all possible. It's been suggested by many people the ink recipe has been changed, but I don't think that's what happened, as we can force the issue by buying a better grade of substrates and then not experiencing the problems anymore. Other than the speed of our machine, we've become happy with it again. It supposedly puts out at a better rate completing a better first adhesion resulting in not cracking or many other stoopid problems. The only thing we've changed on the machine is we've stepped up our bulb type. ![]() The ink has not changed, but we've found by using a different manufacturer for substrates, we get our old results back. I've looked at many of our earlier signs, and they all made it through without problems. Colors were black, light and medium blue and red. The signs face south and take a beating UV-wise and still look perfectly fine. ![]() About 2 months ago, I went by a place where we did some signs on aluminum composite from some of our first signs done with our machine from 2009. We have customers with Cor-X signs from 5 years ago, not experiencing any problems. We've been doing a lot of research and now, it's even happening to some of the aluminium composite boards as well. We noticed this problem in the last year or so and I'm beginning to think it's not the machine, but the substrates. At the time, you said you weren't experiencing the problem. We have similar machines, and use the same ink. I think we talked to you a year or so ago about this very thing. ![]()
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