XAAR enables Marabu’s game-changing ink developments

Printhead major XAAR is enabling the production of ‘game-changing’ digital inks due to its Ultra High Viscosity Technology, according to global ink manufacturer, Marabu. Ultra High Viscosity Technology is providing manufacturers with an array of new and practical production possibilities by enabling a much wider range of fluid viscosities and chemistries to be printed at around 100 centipoises (cP) at jetting temperature, equating to approximately 1000cP at ambient temperature. This ability to jet higher viscosity fluids is opening the toolbox for ink manufacturers such as Marabu.

“XAAR’sUltra High Viscosity Technology is a real step forward in industrial inkjet printing – a ‘game-changer’ – as we move from analogue to digital print,” said Tobias Lang, Marabu’s Product Manager for High Viscosity Inks. “For example, we can create new inks that allowhigh-impact, reliablejetting with sharp contours, enablingthelayering ofdurable, resistant hapticeffects.In the low-viscosity era, meeting high image quality requirements demanded a more complex process, which high-viscosity inks simplify by creating a wider process window at faster production speeds.” Combining XAAR printheads, Marabu’s Ultra High Viscosity and Kammann’s digital print innovation, creates embossed effects on glass bottles and other packaging at a laydown build height up of to 3mm, without compromising on the intricate details of the embossing and sharp contour edges, is now possible.