Teach You How to Distinguish Between Dye Ink And Pigment Ink

When we talk about inkjet printers, we have to talk about printer inks, because the ink and the print quality affect the print quality, and these are all issues that users are most concerned about. However, when purchasing ink, it is found that there are two options for pigment ink and dye ink. Is it pigment ink or dye ink in the end? What is the difference between pigment ink and dye ink?

Definition

What is the dye ink?

Dye ink are fully molecularly resolved inks that are completely complex solutions.

What is the pigment ink？

Pigment ink is the image of powder ink. It grinds the solid pigment into very fine particles and dissolves in a special aqueous solvent. It is a suspension solution or semi-solution, which is the same as the pigment of our dyeing and printing clothes.

Advantages and disadvantages

Dye ink:

Advantages: The probability of blocking the ink head is very small, easy to be absorbed by the material after inkjet, bright colors, and the cost is low.

Disadvantages: Not waterproof, and because the dye molecules decompose rapidly under the irradiation of ultraviolet rays, it causes obvious fading within one month after the use of outdoor ultraviolet rays.

Pigment ink:

Advantages: The use of pigment ink to print, even if printed on plain paper will not pick ink, and because the pigment itself is waterproof, it is not easily decomposed by ultraviolet light, so it's water resistance is strong, but also light-resistant, even if printed out of the outdoors The use can also be maintained for more than one year without obvious signs of fading.

Disadvantages: The color material tends to remain on the surface. Therefore, a glossy image cannot be printed even on a glossy paper such as glossy paper. In addition, pigment inks are expensive to manufacture, so they are also more expensive than dye inks, and the spread is as much as two to four times higher.

Application:

Dye ink:

Print pictures and make inkjet business cards.

Pigment ink:

Pigment inks are primarily used for outdoor inkjet printing and are rarely used by individual users.

In general, the price and performance of pigment inks are higher than those of dye inks. The use of pigment inks is also a development trend of various ink manufacturers.

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