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Quality and Certifications
How a batch is specified, tested and released, and the certifications our ranges carry.
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Quality
Every batch measured, not assumed
Consistency is what a printer actually buys. Our quality discipline specifies each grade by measured properties — viscosity, gloss, colour strength, shade against standard, cure response and the resistance set relevant to the application — and every batch is released against that specification.
Colour is controlled to a batch-to-batch tolerance so that a repeat order matches the first one on the same substrate. Our target for the digital formulation platform now in development is a batch-to-batch ΔE of 1 or less.
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Technical Data Sheets
Measured cured-film data, cure variables and troubleshooting.
Regulatory Compliance
The frameworks each grade is assessed against.
Colour Matching
Software-supported PMS and custom shade matching.
Research and Development
How a new grade is developed and validated.
What we test
Cured film properties
Gloss at 60°, rub resistance under a 2 lb weight, water, alcohol and MEK resistance expressed in rubs, scratch resistance and flexibility rated 1 to 5, and block resistance after cure. These are the numbers printed on our coating data sheets, measured rather than estimated.
Cure and process variables
UV cure is specified by dose. Data sheets state the recommended lamp output, line speed window and on-press cure checks, because an under-cured film fails on adhesion, resistance and migration at the same time.
Colour and light fastness
Shade is checked against a retained standard on the customer substrate class. Light fastness is stated per grade on the Blue Wool Scale, from BWS 3 for short-life promotional work to BWS 7–8 for outdoor and decor applications.
Application testing
Adhesion, resistance and end-use trials are run on the actual substrate before a grade is recommended. For glass and polyolefins this includes surface preparation and treatment level, because a print that passes a tape test on day one can still fail after a week in a humid warehouse.
Certifications our ranges carry
Class VI
Medical-grade certification on the UNIPAD-11MD series.
Eco-Passport
Carried on selected pad printing series.
ISO 10993
In-vitro cytotoxicity data on medical grades.
EN 71-3
Toy safety compliance on relevant ranges.
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Science Technology Innovation & Application. Printing inks and coatings for packaging, label and graphic printing since 2006.
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