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Low-odor dry-offset inks for food packaging.


Misting is said to be almost non-existent with a new series of dry-offset inks designed for printing on plastic containers. Available from Gans Ink & Supply Co., Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , PlastiCure inks are said to be well suited to the production speeds of modern mandrel-equipped presses.

These inks boast very low odor for printing on food packaging of PVC PVC: see polyvinyl chloride.
PVC
 in full polyvinyl chloride

Synthetic resin, an organic polymer made by treating vinyl chloride monomers with a peroxide.
, PS, PE, or PR They contain organic pigments and meet all food and health standards and the requirements of California Proposition 65. PlastiCure inks reportedly have excellent tape adhesion and resistance to oils, fats, coffee, and juices. They come in Pantone and CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK) The color space used for commercial printing and most color computer printers. In theory, cyan, magenta and yellow (CMY) can print all colors, but inks are not pure and black comes out muddy.  process colors A color printed from four separate printing plates. Four-color process printing uses cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK) inks to produce full color reproduction. Contrast with spot color. See CMYK. , dense black, and two-part metallics. Tel: (800) 421-6167 * www.gansink.com
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Title Annotation:Auxiliaries
Publication:Plastics Technology
Date:Jul 1, 2004
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