Under the theme ‘Experience Transformation,’ Sun Chemical showcased digital solutions that highlighted how customers could innovate their businesses.
‘This event gives us a valuable opportunity to connect with new and returning customers and demonstrate how they can use our products to experience transformation for their own businesses,’ said Christine Medordi, Sales Manager – North America at Sun Chemical.
Products on display at PRINTING United, held from October 18-20 in Atlanta, included Sun Chemical’s solutions for wide format and super wide format printing, solutions for digital presses, and inks for digital printing.
Wide Format Printing
Sun Chemical promoted its Streamline range of inkjet inks for wide format printers. Formulated with low-odour chemistry, the Streamline ink series is Greenguard Gold-certified for low indoor emissions.
Also present on the stand were the Streamline TVL 2 and TEL2 ink series, which are offered in 500ml pouches and designed to support the sign, display, and graphics market for use with Roland’s TrueVis SG2 and VG2 range of eco-solvent inkjet printers, including the latest additions to the range: orange and green inks.
Super Wide Format Printing
With the increasing popularity of new, industrial, 3.2m solvent inkjet presses, Sun Chemical offers tailored Streamline ink solutions to support presses with Konica Minolta, Spectra Starfire, and Epson i3200 printheads. Optimised for the inkjet droplet specification and the end-user print application requirements, the latest addition to the range is Sun Chemical’s Streamline SGR, a solvent ink series for presses using Ricoh Gen 5 printheads.
Degassing Modules For Digital Presses
SEPAREL® for inkjet applications is a hollow fibre membrane, developed by DIC Corporation. These degassing modules prevent gas from passing through a hollow fibre membrane, allowing only liquid to pass through and resulting in minimal pressure loss and a more compact size. The range offers a variety of products suitable for various ink types and applications, including aqueous, solvent and UV.
Aqueous Inks For Digital Printing
Demonstrating its commitment to super wide format printing, Sun Chemical promoted its Streamline aqueous ink technology for high-speed, industrial poster printing on presses.
Streamline APY, for Kyocera printheads, is a high-colour strength series, delivering drying benefits and a significant reduction in ink consumption compared to competitive aqueous inks. The inks offer improved print finish and colour vibrancy, as well as reduced energy consumption costs. The latest addition to the aqueous series is Streamline APR, formulated for Ricoh Gen 5 printheads and offering all of the advantages highlighted with Streamline APY.
Solutions For Digital Textile Printing
Sun Chemical highlighted a full range of digital inks for textile decoration across a variety of applications such as sign and display, sportswear, fashion and home textiles.
Products presented included a range of sublimation inks, including ElvaJet Opal SC and ElvaJet Topaz SC, Sun Chemical’s latest range of sublimation inks, to address higher viscosity printheads. In addition, Sun Chemical showcased solutions for pigments, offering the best in colour and application performance.
Additional Inks On Display
Offering outstanding colour and print sharpness, edible inks are well suited for both small and larger businesses, as well as brands looking to bring customisation and enhanced consumer experience to their products.
As the global inkjet brand of Sun Chemical and DIC, SunJet demonstrated its most recent developments in inkjet chemistry, including collaborations with OEM partners, system integrators, and printhead manufacturers across a number of market sectors, including graphics, décor, textile, coding and marking, publication, commercial, industrial, label, and packaging.
Sun Chemical also displayed its conductive inks, resists, dielectrics and insulators for membrane touch switches (MTS), sensors, displays, touch panels, printed antenna, and solid-state lighting. To support a broad variety of applications, SunTronic® ECLIPSE technologies can be tailor-made for specific inkjet printing processes.
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