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Hello Tiago, Have you seen ClingZ's website? clingz.com Perhaps this is what you are looking for? Peter

And have a look on YouTube for "How Ink is Made"

The other big factor here is the current trend in inks is to environmentally friendly and low VOC. The driers also play a significant role. Without the low molecular weight solvents to allow the ink to dive into the paper, ink makers must rely on accelerated drying by adding more driers...

Acrylated epoxidized soy oil. Highly modified but definitely a bio derived energy curable material according to NAPIM.

Hello Albert, Over emulsification could cause all those problems. Has anyone else noticed that the new !nkcredible is much softer in viscosity that say the old rapida 1765. Even though this ink might pick up the same amount of water it is more easily emulsified. Not a solution I know but at...

Hello Ben, We see this all the time. The UV coater insists on a waxfree ink to apply his UV coating to. The printer runs waxfree inks to satisfy the UV coater. The job comes back from the UV coater and it is scratched and marked all over. The wax is an integral component of ink. Without it...

Re: Zero VOC Inks, Going Green The vegetable oil is important but not the only factor. Obviously, you already know that Tung oil will react to driers faster than linseed which is faster than soy bean oil. However, an even greater contributor to the hardness of dry is the resin system used...

Re: Waterless Printing and going Green John, Have you been to www.waterless.org? There is some good information there. One great eco-friendly advantage is the waterless printer can run water washable inks. No more wash up solvent VOCs!