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Hilord and 3P announce a partnership where 3P will have distribution rights to Hilord’s textile inks for numerous selected printers. The inks include disperse dye and sublimation for direct and transfer printing in many different mediums, water based, solvent based and oil based as well as Hilord’s new break through BIO-SUB inks made with solvents from renewable resources. Hilord is very well known in the textile industry as an ink manufacturer.  

"This is a great collaboration of our companies", says Donald H. Balbinder, President and CEO of Hilord Chemical Corp. "We are very pleased to be working with 3P InkJet Textiles AG. The 3P textiles are of very high quality and standards and complement our inks beautifully.” 

Thomas Pötz, Chairman of 3P InkJet Textiles AG adds: “We are delighted to extend our close cooperation by launching Hilord ink sale activities. Especially their great new ink solution offers our solvent printing customers a world of new applications. Just by replacing solvent ink with Hilord’s BIO-SUB ink the traditional solvent printer turns into a dye sublimation textile printer. The investment for the more environmentally friendly solution is low. The results are fantastic: vibrant, brilliant colors and excellent color gamut. Modify your printer and react quickly and flexibly to market demands.”

INX Digital International Co. experienced tremendous success in its continued quest to help printers convert to digital printing at the recent FESPA Digital show, held May 24-26 in Hamburg, Germany.  Company officials are proud to report across-the-board interest in many of the products INX Digital had to offer at the show.

In addition to the increasingly popular EVOLVE® Advanced Digital Solutions, DTX direct-to-fabric textile inks and the environmentally friendly EDX inks and EcoBulk ink delivery system scored big points with show visitors.  INX Digital’s new Prodigy brand was also well received at what Ken Kisner, President of INX Digital International, refers to as the annual premier European tradeshow.

“Show organisers promised an “Evolution” and people got it when they visited our booth,” remarked Kisner.  “I thought the show was well attended with a very focused and qualified group of people.  Those that I spoke with said they stopped by to learn more about our fabric and digital printing offerings.  I was very pleased that the great majority of these people were authorised to purchase products, in addition to the tremendous turnout of our Triangle dealers representing the EMEA, Asia Pacific and Latin America regions.”

The Triangle DTX direct-to-fabric textile inks in the booth were demonstrated on ATP colour printers. Designed for use on direct printing with synthetic fabrics using Epson print heads, they deliver optimal quality and a wide colour gamut.  These inks have extremely fast drying characteristics on polyesters with minimum 60% blends.  DTX also displays optimal ink fluidity and an excellent image definition and fastness properties.

The EDX inks are eco-solvent products and represent the first time the Triangle brand has offered a colour and chemically compatible ECO product for the alternative market.  Designed for Roland printers with Epson DX4 print head technology and demonstrated at FESPA Digital on Roland VersaCAMM printers, EDX is a fast drying ink with low odour and is TAPS-free.  It’s also unique being the only HAPS-free product in the industry.  EDX also provides a significant cost savings when compared to OEM eco inks.

The Prodigy brand attracted interested buyers for several reasons.  The Graphic Arts side serves OEMs, Integrators and print head companies within the digital market, but the expanding Industrial market targets textile, fabric, tile, glass, metal and wood grain business with a variety of UV, water and solvent-based products.  Various fabric and packaging samples were on display in the booth.

Innova Art made its most successful appearance yet at FESPA Digital in Hamburg in May, with a stand that stopped passers by in their tracks with a stunning display of their range of products from new digital media to unique innovative display solutions.

“The stand looked fantastic,” said MD Mike Gonzalez. “The images on display portray exactly the kind of dynamic business attitude we have as a company. It was also a chance to show off just how amazing the work of some of the world’s best, up and coming, young photographers looks when matched with Innova Art digital media.”

Innova Art attracted huge interest in its ground-breaking JetMaster display system and the much praised Decor Art and Velvet ES papers, specially developed for the latest generation of low-cost, eco-solvent printers.

JetMaster: make an impact in minutes

“The 3D, frame-free presentation is the way to present dynamic graphics. It offers suppliers a fast, cost effective solution with excellent quality,” explained Gonzalez.

The unique JetMaster base is a pre-cut, laminated self-adhesive board. Images are mounted on to the board, trimmed and folded. – and that’s it! (Templates are available on the JetMaster website (www.jetmaster-systems.com/downloads).  A perfect 3D graphic without bubbles, untidy corners, staples or hooks. And so light it can be hung from just one tack.

The new small sizes just added to the range (5x5”, 5x7.5” and 8x12”; 8x8”), perfect for for demo prints, promotional giveaways and print sets, were a particular hit. “JetMaster brings the whole job back in-house,” said Gonzalez.

The new Decor ES media: realising the ‘potential’

Innova Art’s Decor Art ES and Décor Velvet ES media, launched at last year’s Photokina, has quickly become a market leader in the fast developing eco-solvent printer market. The potential of the technology to transform the décor market had been widely recognised but it wasn’t until the introduction of the specially developed Décor ES products from Innova that the industry had a complementary media to make it an actuality.

“Visitors to the stand were really excited by both Décor ES papers,” said Gonzalez. “The prints are fantastic – so good that Epson used this paper throughout Photokina to show off its eco-solvent Stylus Pro GS6000 printer – and that means eco-solvent’s capacity to emulate aqueous inkjet is now within reach.”

The Décor Art and the Décor Velvet ES products are available in widths of 30, 54, and 60” at 100’ lengths on a 3” core. They are acid and lignin free, complying with the most exacting archival standards. Currently they are the only art papers compatible with all eco-solvent machines, including Canon, Epson, Mimaki, Mutoh and Roland models.

Innova Art also showed their full range of digital media and canvas, including the award-winning Fibaprint and world-beating Photo canvases; also their Intelligent Print Solution software program, a simple, inexpensive solution to straightforward and consistent printing.

“I think customers appreciate that we bring fresh thinking to the market, which means fresh products and innovative solutions,” added Gonzalez. “No wonder the show went so well!”

Find out more at www.innovaart.com

Faced with continued volatility in the global supply chain and increases in the costs of raw materials, including acrylic and polyamide resins, rosin resins, distillates, carbon black, TiO2, Violet 23 and nitrocellulose, Sun Chemical will raise prices on July 1, 2011 in the United States and Canada by:

• a minimum of 8 percent for water-based corrugated packaging liquid inks,
• a minimum of 15 percent for all other water-based and all solvent-based packaging liquid inks,
• 10 percent for all heatset inks, and
• 10 percent on all Sun Chemical Rycoline blanket and roller solvent-based washes, specialty solvents, and isopropyl alcohol.

"We have seen an unrelenting elevation of costs on raw materials such as nitrocellulose, which has a price increase of over 15 percent announced for July 1 based on a 32 percent increase for cellulose, the base feedstock. We simply cannot offset the drastic raw material price increases we have seen this past year across all our product lines," said Tony Renzi, Vice President of Product Management, Liquid Inks, North American Inks, Sun Chemical. "Despite these challenges, we are looking for ways to work closely with our supply chain partners on controlling our own costs."

 

Bordeaux Digital PrintInk, a developer and provider of inkjet inks for the graphic arts industry, announced one of its busiest Fespa Digital exhibitions to date, reflecting its continued strong momentum in the market and industry recognition. High interest was seen across all of Bordeaux's featured solutions at the Hamburg event, which included a complete line of Mild and Low solvent inks, an expanded line of UV and UV LED inks and also clear coating solutions for virtually all wide and super wide format printer models and printhead technologies. Other highlights included Bordeaux's new generation PRMS,  Mix & Match inks allowing easy ink changeover and Bordeaux's expanded delivery system including the  Bordeaux Bulk Ink Delivery System, supplied with appropriate chips and chip resetter and Bordeaux's Bulk Ink Delivery System designated for Mimaki™ using 2L ink bags .

"Bordeaux is continuing to attract the industry's attention and gaining significant market share amongst printers and print shops. We received hundreds of leads to keep our sales teams busy. Our customers' adaptation and distributors success, validate our heavy investment in the company to drive further growth, stay at the forefront of innovative ink development and guarantee our customers receive excellent products and service,"  said Moshe Zach, Bordeaux founder and CEO. "We wish to thank all the visitors, partners, dealers and fellow employees worldwide who contributed to the success of this event and look forward, to returning to Fespa next year," added Zach.

"This was an extremely successful show for us. Most of the dealers and business development partners we met were very enthusiastic about our expanded range of high quality solutions, fully compatible with original products yet economical and environmentally friendly," said Dror Mualem, Bordeaux VP Sales and Marketing.  During the last few years, many companies worldwide, ranging from small printing houses to large companies have moved to Bordeaux inks and are enjoying significant savings."

3M and EFI have launched a new co-branded UV ink for use with the VUTEk GS5000r printer from EFI. This ink is covered by the industry-leading 3M™ MCS™ Warranty, giving EFI customers an extended range of applications offered by 3M materials with the assurance of the warranty.

 “The VUTEk GS5000r five-meter digital printer is an eight-color printer with fantastic 1000 dpi quality. And by running the 3M ink, which sets a new standard in adhesion and color gamut, our graphics produced on this printer will now carry the 3M™ MCS™ Warranty," said Mark Auth, president, Vomela Specialty Company.

3M and EFI have also announced a new co-branded UV ink for use in the VUTEk GS2000 and GS3200 printers from EFI. This ink will also be backed by the 3M™ MCS™ Warranty, and will be commercially available in Q2.

“We are very pleased to extend our relationship with EFI and to offer our joint customers not only innovative products, but the assurance and peace of mind of the most comprehensive warranty in the business,” said Jennifer Greenquist, inks and warranties business manager for 3M Commercial Graphics.

The 3M™ MCS™ Warranty covers defects in the appearance of finished graphics for up to four years outdoors, including discoloration, fading, cracking, peeling, and other defects that make the graphics unsuitable for their intended purpose and up to five years for vehicle graphics. These inks also come with an extended shelf life of 15 months. The new inks match the high standards of the current EFI ink set in terms of adhesion and color gamut, and are highly flexible with noticeably lower odor than other UV inks.