The Printing Ink Manual: 4th edition [Paperback]

The Printing Ink Manual was first published in 1961 under the auspices of the Society of British Printing Ink Manufacturers with the object of providing an authoritative work on printing ink technology. This, the fourth edition, continues that purpose and presents a comprehensive study of the current 'state of the art' in the ink industry. For those starting in the printing ink industry it is a textbook dealing with all aspects of the formulation and manufacture of printing ink. For the ink technician it is a practical manual and useful source of reference. For printers and users of printed material the manual supplies helpful information on the nature and behaviour of ink both on the printing press and as the finished print. Readers with a little scientific knowledge will have no difficulty in using the manual, but as in previous editions, sufficient chemistry and physics have been introduced to assist the advanced technician and research scientist.1 The Nature of Printing Inks.- 1.1 Visual characteristics of inks.- 1.2 The nature of printing inks as determined by the printing process.- 1.3 The drying characteristics.- 1.4 The adhesive nature of printing inks.- 1.5 The resistance properties of printing inks.- 2 The Printing Processes.- 2.1 The letterpress process.- 2.2 The offset lithographic process.- 2.3 The gravure process.- 2.4 The flexographic process.- 2.5 The screen printing process.- 2.6 Non-impact printing processes.- 2.7 Other printing processes.- 2.8 Print recognition.- 2.9 Substrate selection.- 2.10 The need for communication.- 3 Colour and Colour Matching.- 3.1 The physical nature of colour.- 3.2 The perception of colour.- 3.3 Additive and subtractive colour mixing.- 3.4 Origins of colour in printed material.- 3.5 Graphic reproduction.- 3.6 The measurement of colour.- 3.7 The recording of colour data and the specification of colour.- 3.8 Colour matching.- 3.9 Instrumental colour match prediction.- References.- 4 RawMaterials.- Section I Pigments.- SectlÃ)