Tired of printing an additional pass, when standard process inks can’t achieve accurate color development? Or maybe, your in-line press is down again because the halftone colors need to be adjusted in an attempt to get those difficult facial tones?

Regardless of how talented printers are today, they still have to focus most of their time on adjustments to the screen press in order to achieve an accurate image reproduction. In addition, it has become difficult to reproduce customer’s proofs with the ever increasing number of different digital or match proof machines available today. This continues to be time consuming and drive expenses up for the printer, in a market where profits are shrinking.

Fujifilm Sericol’s commitment to providing solutions recognized the need to offer a better set of 4-color process screen inks. That’s why we are proud to introduce True Halftone Technology (THT), a new solution to help screen printers achieve greater color development through an advanced four-color process screen ink set.

THT was developed to provide the industry with an expanded printable color gamut, optimal color densities with minimal hue error, and an ideal print rheology to improve on-press efficiency.

Throughout the screen print industry, we found printers dedicating resources and time to printing additional print passes on their process jobs because their standard halftone sets are unable to achieve a wide gamut of spot colors. For in-line or carousel printers, this can mean tying up an additional press or running the job back through a multi-colored machine for a single pass. With THT’s expanded color gamut you can hit more spot colors easier and faster from just four colors; in most cases, eliminating the need for a 5 th or 6 th print pass on a common process job.

The cleanliness or clarity of a halftone ink is important to its ability to hit accurate colors.

The present offerings in the market have a very small color palette because the nature of inks is heavy and clouded in appearance. This dirty or cloudy appearance directly effects the color development when printing secondary or tertiary colors. With the new cleaner, more transparent THT system overlapping colors are stronger and brighter than ever before; developing the final image cleaner and faster.

This clean pigment technology is also superior when trying to achieve proper grey balance. Printing grays and blacks become simple with THT because the cleanliness of the inks produces a truer black, rather than the normal dirty brown of common halftone inks.

Color is not the only key characteristic of the new THT. The ability to print higher line counts and crisp dot structures are imperative to the screen market. THT boasts an improved print rheology that breaks clean on-press and provides a superior low build and low gain dot structure. This new formulation will help to eliminate common topographical printing problems by resulting in an overall lower dot build.

For more information, contact your local Fujifilm Sericol sales representative. Take the THT challenge and let us show you the next generation in UV screen inks.

Fujifilm Sericol’s UV Screen Ink Brochure

Wouldn't it be great to have a brochure that would answer the ever elusive question, "What graphic UV screen inks does Sericol offer?"

This brochure is packed full of information about our diverse and extensive breadth of UV screen inks offered to the graphics market. In this pamphlet, the inks are separated into their respective series and are introduced with a concise paragraph about some of the key features and properties of that series. This brochure will help to enlighten our new and existing customers on the vast UV screen solutions Sericol offers.

In addition, we have included a section on the ColorSense system, explaining the vital roll that color management solutions play in running a successful business. And on the back page, the key products in the Dirasol emulsion line that compliment our UV screen inks. With all this information in a single brochure we can continue to show that Sericol is more than ink…Solutions.

In addition to the new UV ink brochure, we have developed the Fujifilm Sericol UV Screen Ink Selector wheel to assist our screen graphics customers with their day-to-day choices of substrate changes. This new tool provides customers with the ability to choose a primary and secondary substrate, from a set of 8 common materials, then instantly get the answer to which Sericol UV screen ink is ideal for those applications. This new wheel provides a simple guide for customers to remember which Sericol UV graphic screen product is recommended for what substrate.

Fujifilm Sericol USA Inc. has focused significant attention to developing UV screen inks that provide superior adhesion to multiple substrates. These inks, UVantage POP and Fascure Ultra, are highlighted in red when they appear in the answer windows, alerting the customer that there is a multi-substrate product available that may provide a single ink solution. For example, when the primary substrate is vinyl banner and the secondary substrate is polystyrene, UVantage POP instantly appears in both window highlighting the key product for both applications.