Improved Sheetfed Inks From Flint Schmidt

Flint-Schmidt has improved the formulations of its Arrowstar sheetfed ink for folding carton printers, converters and general commercial printers.

Flint-Schmidt has improved the formulations of its Arrowstar sheetfed ink for folding carton printers, converters and general commercial printers.

There are 10 new Arrowstar inks for a wider range of sheetfed applications that were commercially tested across Europe to for press stability and quality at high press speeds, said the company.

Flint-Schmidt claim the product improvement include better rub resistance, ink transfer and gloss and minimum dot gain.

All Arrowstar inks are all available as process sets and also as spot colours and special blacks.

"The refinements to the chemistry of the Arrowstar range combine the best of the formulation expertise of Flint-Schmidt's scientists.

The new formulations offer printers greater latitude, flexibility and performance over a wide array of substrates and diverse conditions," said Doug Aldred, vice president, Flint-Schmidt sheetfed division.

The range includes two new all-purpose inks.

Arrowstar 8030 is a vegetable oil-based, infrared reactive offset ink for use on single and multi-colour litho presses, as well as eight and 10-colour perfecting presses.

Claimed to be fast setting the company believes it offers improved drying for faster turnaround times with press stability.

Arrowstar Fast Setting 3030 is mineral oil-based for print jobs needing extremely fast-setting and drying properties.

Both 8030 and 3030 are said to provide high colour strength and are suitable for coated and uncoated papers and boards.

Eight other application-specific inks are also available including inks for heavy coverage, light-weight or poor surface quality stocks, jobs with off-line finishing applications and products designed to stay fresh on rollers and in the ink duct overnight to allow for faster start ups.

There are other inks in the range for extra rub resistance on coated and uncoated substrates, low odour products for tobacco and none contact food paper and board packaging and a hard drying and heat resistant ink to be run on laser printers.

Finally, there is ink developed especially for printing on synthetic, non-porous substrates.

The vegetable oil-based inks have Swan Label approval in Scandinavia, and comply with environmental requirements in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland.

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