Yvonne Plitzko, Head of Technical Marketing Graphic Arts at Eckart, gives an insight into the current trends in pigments for printing inks and the challenges entailed in pigments for water-borne inks. What are the current trends in pigments for printing inks? General trends, such as upgrading the appearance of metallic pigments towards whiter or darker rooms and flexibility in gloss levels to obtain smooth to high-gloss premium looks, will always be the main task of a metallic pigments producer. Regulatory trends, such as national and international regulations (e.g. Reach, K-Reach, Meti), market regulations (e.g. Swiss list for food packaging) or the forthcom- ing implementation of mineral oil limits in France for inks in general, which will have an impact on the global market, count among the stronger trends we have been noticing in recent years.
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