Special Ink

Product Description:

The ink is invisible under ordinary light but gives off a brilliant fluorescent colour in 365 nm UV light. Available in Yellow, Red, Green, and Blue.

Applications:

Anti-counterfeiting features for bank cheques, certificates, passports, currency notes, tickets etc.

Printing Method:

Wet offset, Dry offset, Flexo, Screen Printing

Substrate:

For best results use un-brightened coated, uncoated papers & boards.

Product Description:

Taggant inks have proprietary, unreplicable chemistry, making duplication practically impossible. The ink is invisible in normal light. When observed with a special reader, it changes colour and also produces an audible sound.

Available Colours:

Transparent. Can also be blended with ordinary commercial inks to add Taggant feature

Application:

Ideal for high security printing applications like certificates, passports, bank cheques, tax stamps etc.

Printing Method:

Wet and dry offset, Flexo, Screen Printing

Substrate:

For best results use coated, uncoated papers & boards, maplitho paper and polymeric films.

Product Description:

Thermochromic inks change colour when temperature rises above a certain threshold and revert to the original colour when temperature drops below the threshold.

Available Colours:

Various. Refer to this colour combination chart for details. We also create customized formulations for specific temperature ranges and colour chemistry.

Application:

Ideal for easy authentication by finger rubbing, touching a hot surface, etc. Great for security printing, food safety, medical applications, brand promotional campaigns, etc.

Printing Method:

Wet & dry offset, Flexo, Screen Printing

Substrate:

For best results use coated, uncoated papers & boards, maplitho papers, PVC, PE and PET films

Product Description:

Visible fluorescent inks are having daylight fluorescent effect, the print contains an anti-photocopy
feature. The optical effect cannot be reconstructed with conventional printing inks. Apart from the
visual examination, this ink can be verified using a 365nm UV light source.

Available Colours:

Yellow, Green, Orange, Pink & Magenta

Application:

Visible fluorescent inks are widely used to print promotional vouchers, certificates, passports, tickets and etc.

Printing Method:

These inks can be printed through conventional wet offset, dry offset & Flexo printing processes.

Substrate:

Preferably un-brightened coated, uncoated papers & boards.
*Printability on other type of printing stocks.

*We always recommend the customer to test and confirm the printability & compatibility before commercial printing.

Product Description:

Chromotropic inks are used to print alphanumeric characters that appear greyish black to black under normal light, but show fluorescence under 365nm UV light

Available Colours:

Black to Red, Black to Green & Black to Yellow

Application:

Useful where securitisation needs to be embedded in normal lettering like text, serial numbers, etc. Ideal for bank cheques, certificates, passports, currency notes, etc.

Printing Method:

Letterpress

Substrate:

MICR & Maplitho

Product Description:

Colourless in normal light, in 365 nm UV light Photochromic ink changes to a highly visible colour, and reverts back to colourless when removed from UV light.

Available Colours:

Colorless to Purple, Colourless to Red & Colorless to Blue.

Application:

Excellent for high security documents like bank cheques, certificates, passports, currency notes, high value tickets, etc.

Printing Method:

Dry offset, Flexo, Screen-Printing

Substrate:

For best results use coated, uncoated papers & boards, maplitho papers and PVC, PE, or PET films

Product Description:

Optically Variable Ink creates multi-layer interference filters, resulting in the colour changing when viewed from different angles.

Available Colours:

Standard colours: Gold to Green, Green to Blue. Schedule a discussion with our technical experts for customized formulations or other specific requirements

Application:

Advanced, highly critical secure printing requirements including currency, some certificates, high security ID cards, etc.

Printing Method:

Intaglio, Screen, and Flexo for best results

Substrate:

Coated, uncoated papers & boards and polymeric films

Product Description:

White base inks that render printed images invisible in protected documents. When rubbed with a coin they appear in greyscale to reveal hidden information or image

Available Colours:

Transparent and translucent white

Application:

Authentication, secure packaging, promotional materials.

Printing Method:

Ink needs to be applied at low film weights. Best results with Wet offset and Flexo
We recommend that the last roller unit of the press be used in multi colour press. Oil resistant blankets and synthetic rubber rolls should be used.

Substrate:

For the best results use uncoated paper. Also printable on uncoated papers & boards.

Product Description:

These inks combine the features of coin reactive ink and invisible fluorescent ink. The ink is normally invisible, but turns fluorescent under 365 nm light. In addition, if rubbed with a coin the hidden features are displayed in greyscale.

Available Colours:

Invisible to Yellow & Invisible to Blue

Application:

Certificates, promotional vouchers, tickets, packaging etc.

Printing Method:

Wet offset and Flexo.

Substrate:

For best results use Coated and Uncoated papers & boards.

Product Description:

These inks take tamper proofing to the next level! If the ink has come into contact in any way, even if it was done very carefully, it exhibits fluorescence under 365 nm UV light, creating an extremely effective second line of defence.

Available secondary fluorescent Colours:

Colourless to Blue & Colourless to Yellow

Application:

Bank cheques

Printing Method:

Dry offset

Substrate:

MICR Paper

Product Description:

These water-based inks easily fade or break in the presence of water, rendering their alteration with water impossible. What’s more, these inks are environmentally friendly

Available Colours:

Yellow, Magenta, Blue, Red, Pink, Green & Black.

Application:

Bank cheques.

Printing Method:

Dry Offset

Substrate:

MICR Paper