 | HP Scitex inks are formulated and manufactured by HP to work together with HP Scitex large-format printers. Designing and developing the printhead, ink, and printer together creates high-performing, dependable printing systems — just what users need to achieve great results. | |
The HP Scitex inks offering includes solvent, UV-curable and water-based inks, all available in a variety of formulations. Used with HP Scitex printers, the inks produce dry, ready-to-use, durable images with a large color gamut on a wide variety of rigid and flexible substrates. The inks are designed for specific HP Scitex printing systems, ensuring accurate color reproduction and compatibility.
Solvent inks Most solvent ink series offer a choice of ‘Classic’ and ‘Supreme’ grades, which are not simply ‘Economy’ and ‘Premium’ versions, but are formulated to meet specific application requirements.
| • | 'Classic' is the most cost-effective ink series and is designed for outdoor durability for up to one year, making it attractive for shorter-life applications. | | • | 'Supreme' series inks offer a longer UV durability of up to two years, and other benefits that make them the preferred option for their target applications.
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| • | Specialty inks
HP Scitex offers a range of specialty inks that were formulated for special applications and/or that use special technologies. Specialty inks include: UV-curable HP XP231 Specialty Billboard Scitex ink, which enables high-speed and high-yield billboard printing using the HP Scitex XP5300/XP2300 Printer. Solvent-based HP Scitex DS100 Specialty Textile dye sublimation ink, which was formulated for printing on fabrics using the HP Scitex XL1500 DS printer (with the dye sublimation upgrade).
| | • | UV-curable inks
HP Scitex UV-curable inks deliver high image quality while enabling printing practices with reduced environmental impact. Designed for different HP flatbed, hybrid, roll-to-roll and roll-to-sheet printers, they are offered in 4-, 6- and 8- color configurations, feature an extensive color gamut, and provide excellent adhesion to a wide variety of media, with high durability and optimized outdoor fade and abrasion resistance.
The HP range of UV-curable inks includes HP FB210 Scitex White Ink, an acrylate-based ink used by the HP Scitex FB6100 Printer. This white ink prints white data on non-white substrates to create a high-quality white background on opaque and clear substrates. The ink was formulated to ensure superb adhesion to a variety of plastics and other smooth materials.
Most HP Scitex inks are produced by HP in our own state-of-the-art factories to strict quality-control standards. Each batch is tested and certified to meet an array of rigorous physical, chemical, and colorimetric specifications. Because the properties of ink can affect everything in the printing system — and hence productivity and output quality — every change in HP Scitex ink formulations undergoes exhaustive testing both in the laboratory and in production environments. This investment in quality control means that every liter of HP Scitex inks is optimized to perform to HP's exacting standards.
• Our ink manufacturing process includes more than 20 quality parameters, including color space, color strength, gloss, transparency, scratch resistance, durability, flexibility, adhesion, environmental legislation, shelf life, light fastness, abrasion resistance, viscosity, sensitivity to temperature, printer drying capacity, print speed, dot size, surface tension, particle size and more. • As part of HP's long-term quality commitment, one liter of every batch of HP Scitex ink manufactured is kept for monitoring purposes. • HP always keeps a two month stock of ink close to the customer, ensuring timely delivery. • Plants that product HP Scitex inks plants are ISO 9001 certified.
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