Monday, August 12, 2013

The influence of offset printing ink balance and quality

Lithography is the use of the principle of oil and water don't mix, plate graphic department can oil-wet hydrophobic, gap department water before with hydrophilic oleophobic selective adsorption. Another characteristic is using indirect printing, offset printing using dot color way for color copy. Offset printing ink sure if appropriate, in the normal transfer of imprinting, inky depth, color correct, print dry and sticky dirty, etc is very important. Can accurately grasp and control the ink balance, therefore, is to ensure that the print quality not disorderly of hub. As a high-tech printing workers, should not only know the ink balance relationship, more master ink balance technology and essentials should be polished.
Ink balance refers to the certain and the printing pressure, printing speed adjust the supply of education version liquid, emulsion to make the ink contains education version after the volume of the proportional control in 15% ~ 26%, and form a level slightly water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion inks, with minimal amount of feed liquid on the plate printing ink.
Ink balance is the most important thing in education version control fluid and ink. Education version fluid is composed of water and surfactant, education version fluid can be fully wetting layout, cleaning ability and not disorderly of pH value, ensure layout doesn't dirty.
1) the role of education version fluid
(1) in the department of plate gap formation water film on average, in order to prevent the ink on the graphic to open branch of infiltration, to prevent dirty version.
(2) using the education version in the liquid electrolyte with bare metal versions due to abrasion produces chemical reaction, constantly create new layer, maintain layout department of hydrophilic gaps.
(3) control the temperature of the layout of printing ink. Because the new printing presses faster and faster, with print speed too fast will make the ink in the high-speed transmission temperature, the activity of the ink is increased, which resulted in increased network. So puts forward new requirements for education version fluid high-speed machine, namely the education version fluid in contact with the ink forme roller through the layout, can reduce the temperature of the ink roller and ink.
(4) do not make by larger or smaller. Education version with not disorderly plate is required by department and the function of the relative position vacancy department, guarantee in the whole process of printing, graphic neither to expand or narrow.
Ink generally composed of pigment, filler, links and auxiliary additives, selection of ink should be fully considered when ink rheology function and optical function.
Ink rheology function to determine whether the ink has good printing function of main basis. Ink rheology function mainly depends on ink link, of course, also can be regulated by the appropriate auxiliary additives. Ink rheology function evaluation can be reflected through the main function of ink rheology indexes, namely, ink viscosity, viscosity, thixotropy, yield, viscoelastic and activity and so on. In practical production, only grasp the function index, to be familiar with various types of ink printing property, so as to achieve the purpose of the selection to meet the requirements of printing ink.
Print must exist at the same time, surface printing ink and water balance, the purpose is to keep both graphic printing area maximum ink quantity, make bright inky, saturated, points clear bright and clean, but also to keep the printing area clean and tidy, which requires attention to adjust the volume of water and ink in the produce of the relationship.
In printing, the printing quality of imprinting inky depth, in addition to related to the amount of the ink ink fountain, also directly affected by the water supply and layout of ink balance. When the layout of water increases, the imprinting inky dodge becomes shallow gradually. Conversely, reducing water supply section water, imprinted ink is relatively deep than the original. So, more or less ink quantity and layout of water supply will change imprinting inky depth. In the printing process, should be adjusted according to actual situation. Should not rely on to reduce the water supply to progress as required, because the water is too small, loss of balance of ink, easy to make dirty with the vacancy department.
But the need to prevent water on the big ink. When the moisture of excessive, inky becomes shallow, must have to actual situation, mistakenly assume that ink quantity is little, not to reduce the water supply, but to frequent increase in the volume of ink. Ruth reciprocating to increase water supply for ink, resulting in a vicious cycle, the ultimate water ink big all ills, printing from otherwise normal operations.
Experienced printing workers, in actual production, often under the condition of can't afford to ensure plate dirty, control the water supply in the range of as small as possible, and the amount of water and ink is not disorderly state, so it can ensure the printing quality before and after the inky depth is consistent and printing work. Advocate the practice of using water is small, the ink thickness, the water of the little finger is conditional on the level of vacancy layout department doesn't dirty minimum water; The so-called ink thickness, is built on the basis of water small, water ink caused by excessive emulsification, thick ink layer is impossible. (Gold Printing Group)
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