Series 752 Pad Printing Ink
Printcolor 752 is a one or two component, fast drying ink for printing various plastics and metals.
Upgrade to Printcolor high performance inks; change to Series 752 if you are using Marabu TPT or TPY, Rucco T18 or Coates TP300.
The official technical stuff from Printcolor
Series 752 is a highly opaque, semi-gloss, easy to use ink system. It is formulated to achieve excellent adhesion on the widest possible range of plastics commonly used in advertising (promotional, toys etc) and industrial (automotive, pharmaceutics, cosmetics etc) applications. The highly wear-resistant resins used in 752 make it an excellent choice when printing for demanding, long-term outdoor applications such as car parts or outdoor fittings. Series 752 has Class VI Certification for application on medical and surgical components; download the Technical Information for more details.
Printcolor 752 gives exceptional results on most plastics including (but not limited to); soft and rigid PVC, some acrylics and polystyrenes (ABS, SAN), polycarbonate, pre-treated polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), many lacquered and coated surfaces, nylon and melamine.
Series 752 can, with the addition of adhesion promotor 700-PP, also be used on un-treated PP with excellent results. Printcolor 752 is also a great ink to print metals such as; aluminium (raw, anodized, brushed), compound materials such as Alucobond, Dibond and Vekaplan AL, wood and other natural substances. Series 752 is increasingly popular in Australia and New Zealand, proving itself to be a very good all-rounder for commercial pad printers. Refer to the Technical Information and Series 752 MSDS documents for more details.
What we say about Printcolor 752
Series 752 is a great work-horse for jobbing pad printers because it has such a wide adhesion range on common plastics, and it does a great job on aluminium surfaces too. We use 752 for a lot of cosmetic and automotive component printing because of it’s high chemical and wear resistance, and excellent UV stability. 752 is a very stable ink in the press that rarely gives transfer issues, it will print for you all day long even if you’ve loaded it up with hardener. We find 752 a great ink for multi colour work as it mixes well with thinners of different speeds, giving excellent control of ink transfer across all of the printing heads.
Hardener: addition ratio of 10:1 and up to 5:1 700-HDa hardener or 700-HDi hardener
Thinner: 700-017 thinner – addition ratio 10 – 15% by weight for open well
Thinner: 700-019 thinner – addition ratio 10 – 15% by weight for closed cup
Retarder: 700-018 thinner – addition ratio 10 – 15% by weight
The good oil from our trade print room
- Printcolor 752 is a mainstay in our printroom. Easy printing and fast drying. We commonly use it with a heat tunnel (especially for pens) as the printed product can fall into a box at the end of the tunnel without fear of print damage or set off.
- 752 can be used as a one component ink (without hardener) on many plastics, although we tend to add 10:1 700-HDI hardener to ensure a harder wearing print. You can also substantially increase the adhesion range of the ink by adding 5:1 HDi or HDa hardener, making it stick to more varieties of plastics.
- We never fiddle with fast and slow thinners in 752, 700-017 medium thinners is all we ever use in it.
- Absolutely the best ink for anodised aluminium and spun stainless steel such as that used for stainless travel mugs and water bottles. Mix with 700-HDi or HDa hardener at 5:1 for this application.
- As with all fast ink systems static spiderwebs around the point of the pad can sometimes be an issue, especially if your plate is a bit deep. We’ve found this to be easily fixed by not allowing the ink to get too thick, using a steeper pad shape, or just moving the image away from the point of the pad a little. Our new Anit-static Blue printing pads have proven to reduce the prevalence of static on all our high speed inks and 752 is no exception.
- Screen printing with 752 is no worries either, but you may need to use a bit of retarder such as 10-03432 universal slow retarder to keep the screen open.
- Excellent adhesion on flame treated PP and PE where fast drying for rapid packing and print turnaround is required.
- Can be used on untreated PP by adding 20% 700-PP Adhesion Promoter plus HDa or HDi hardener at 5:1. Printcolor 752 gives a much better result than Series 711 used this way, in fact we would go so far as to say that it’s a convenient alternative to using a dedicated PP ink like Series 712. A very useful feature that can get you out of trouble if you don’t have a can of 712 on the shelf, and product pre-treatment isn’t an option.
Mixing recipes available in the Printcolor Colour Mix Calculator – here
Why Use Printcolor Pad Printing Inks?
Well let me give you my take on the why, and you can make your own conclusion. We talk to a lot of printers about the getting right ink for their pad printing projects. And with good reason… The ink you use makes a world of difference to your work. With the right ink you can produce more, with greater consistency and quality, in less time and for less money.
Working too hard? Change ink… and change your business!
Clearly, with so much at stake, you want to choose wisely and the first thing you should know is that ink brands ARE different.
We often talk to people who are doing a tremendous amount of unnecessary and time-consuming work, not realising that their ink was making their whole production process problematic. They just thought that sometimes pad printing could be… well… difficult. Once we matched their project or application with the right ink for the job, efficiency (and profits!) went up immediately. And stress levels fell. Leading Swiss ink manufacturer Printcolor, has developed a wide range of high performance pad printing inks formulated to perform well in the press, be easy to use, ecologically friendly, and versatile in high demand production environments.
What we’re sharing comes from YEARS of hands-on experience.
If you want to REALLY know about ink, you need to talk to someone who has used it on a daily basis. Here at Colour Components, the information we are sharing with you comes from years of hands-on experience running a multiple award-winning trade printing business. In the process we have tried a lot of different inks, from many manufacturers, in all types of pad printing applications. So, when it comes to ink, you could say that we have ‘been around the block’.
Our own experience (together with feedback from our customers), has led us to use and sell only one brand, Printcolor High Performance Inks, which are made in Switzerland. As well as our own practical knowledge, as exclusive agent we have the expertise of Printcolor’s many technicians and chemists on call — so you can count on us to be here for you with the right advice and answers to any questions you may have.
Here are some of our reasons for being confident that you too will find Printcolor inks to be such good value for your business…
Real, measurable value for money.
If you’ve been pad printing for a while, you may already suspect that using a cheap ink can actually costs you more. The time you lose struggling with colour accuracy, rubbing of ink that just hasn’t stuck when it should, and messing around with different thinners and additives to get the print to transfer off the pad every time… it all eats away at your profit, and And over time, it hurts.
None of that happens with a high quality ink formulated specifically for pad printing, and that is why we recommend Printcolor.
We have clients who’s profitability increased dramatically when they made the change to Printcolor… literally, by thousands of dollars per year. The reason? With Printcolor, you eliminate problems of adhesion and poor colour coverage that leads to job rejection, you increase printroom efficiency because you’re not endlessly fiddling with the ink – you will just get more profitable work done, and you’ll use less ink and time to do it.
Higher opacity than any other ink on the market gives you solid colour accuracy.
Put simply, pad printing inks are essentially made up of pigment and binder. Pigment is expensive, and some manufactures maintain their product price point by using less of it in their formulations, leaving you, the printer, to struggle with the weak colour that is the result. You may get away with it in some screen printing applications where a thick layers of colour is printed, but never with pad printing. Pad printers lay down such a thin layer of ink that pigment content is critical for colour accuracy and coverage. We have all been there… A client wants you to print yellow on a black component, you have three options:
- Recommend they don’t do it because you know the yellow won’t cover well enough to give the bright yellow print that’s expected — which just makes you look like you haven’t the expertise to do the job.
- Do it anyway and hope the customer doesn’t reject it — which can damage your relationship.
- Waste time putting down a white first or double or triple hitting the part — which turns it into a multi-colour print job, when you can only competitively quote for a straight forward one colour print.
Ouch!
We found years ago that Printcolor ink puts an end to all that. Printcolor inks are pigment rich, giving them amazingly high opacity and excellent coverage. That means you get beautifully accurate, solid, pleasing colour, every time. And, because Printcolor use the best quality pigments, their Mixing System requires only 13 colours to mix ANY PMS, HKS or RAL shade – not the 16 plus colours you need to keep on hand when using other ink brands.
Your customers will appreciate the quality work you produce, and the price you can do it for, and that helps you ‘bullet proof’ your relationship against competitors, ensuring a more stable, secure business.
Easy to use. Easy to Change. Seriously.
Many pad printers are reluctant to change ink brands. They think it may be difficult or costly. Maybe it’s better the devil you know… It is actually the opposite. Changing to Printcolor won’t cost you money, and it’s easy – amazingly so. You’ll wonder why you didn’t change sooner!
For starters, you wont have to waste what’s left of your old ink brand. After all you’ve paid money for that! In most cases you can use up what is left of your old ink with your new Printcolor mixing system. Although, once you experience how easy Printcolor is to use, you may just end up putting that old brand in the bin anyway… we did!
We often hear back from delighted customers who have struggled with a job or application in the past, who tell us “ I mixed it up the way you said, put it in the press, and it just worked!”
Well frankly, that’s the way it OUGHT to be!
A clean bill of health (and safety!)
Australian occupational health and safety regulations for exposure to chemicals and heavy metals are often set at minimum world standards. But, as with everything else Printcolor do, they don’t aim for the minimum on health and safety.
Printcolor are deeply committed to workplace safety and the environment. Their inks are BVQI (ISO 9001) certified to be free of heavy metals, chlorinated and brominated organic compounds, organic tin, asbestos and formaldehyd. Under stringent European standards these inks are acceptable for printing toys, and many have Certificate IV clearance for use in pharmaceutical and surgical applications. Safe inks are good for the people in your printroom, they give your clients confidence in the safety of their printed products, and have less impact on our environment.
Specialist pad printing ink.
One of the many things we like about Printcolor is that they don’t try and kid you with generic formulations. Unlike budget brands, Printcolor pad printing inks are NOT screen inks that have been re-labelled. For Printcolor ‘pad printing’ ink means just that, an ink specifically formulated for pad printing applications containing richer pigments, flow agents, antistatic elements and additives to promote print transfer and adhesion.
Printcolor make a excellent range of universal pad printing inks that you will use for most of your day to day printing, and they also make highly specialised pad printing products too. These include one component inks for printing untreated polypropylene, jet drying inks for high speed closure printing, highly flexible inks for rubberised surfaces, UV inhibitors for outdoor applications, anti-abrasion paste for touch panel printing – to name but a few.
Printcolor make the RIGHT ink for the job. It shows every time you use it.
Talk to us TODAY about the right ink for your application.
The team here at Colour Components have years of experience, and are experts when it comes to ink and its application. We are keen to help you with advice and solutions, so you can get more done, at a higher quality AND for more profit!
Contact us, we’re happy to help!
