More information on printing and striping

High Temperature Printing and Striping Inks

These are aqueous inks used for printing, striping or top coating on high temperature resins. They feature a high temperature resin binder to hold the pigment in place after sintering and are sold as water dispersions. There are three families of high temperature inks:

PTFE Striping Inks

• For striping or top coating on PTFE insulated wires or tubing
• Because of the thermal similarities of the PTFE and PFA, these can also be used on PFA substrates

FEP Printing and Striping Inks

• For printing, striping or top coating on FEP insulated wires or tubing
• Because of the thermal similarities of the FEP, PFA and PTFE substrates, these can also be used on the PFA and PTFE substrates

Low Temperature Striping Inks

These are aqueous/alcoholic inks used for striping or top coating on lower temperature substrates. They feature a synthetic resin binder to hold the pigment in place after sintering and are sold as water/alcoholic dispersions with very low VOC content. These should be used on ETFE, E-CTFE or PVDF substrates.

Processing

Striping inks can be applied via offset printing, using a bath-and-wheel process or by air brushing on the substrate followed by a drying step to evaporate the water and by a sintering step to bind the pigments to the surface. In some cases it is advisable to heat treat the substrate prior to application.

For additional information please refer to the specific data sheets for each of these product families available from your local sales office or this website.