Special Reviews: Present Conditions and Subjects of Gravure Printing

Trend of Gravure Ink

Abstract

The superior feature of gravure printing is high productivity and excellent print quality. Gravure printing applies to many substrates and uses-for example, publication, packaging, product materials-because of wide variety ink formulations. But gravure ink which contains much amount of organic solvents has many problems; air pollution, health hazard, dangerous fire, etc. This paper describes the present status and future trend of gravure ink. Especially, the trend of water-borne ink system is informed in detail in this paper.