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The ink and overprint varnishes from water-dispersible Eastman®AQ polymers (e.g. polyesters) offer unique properties such as no amine odor, low foaming, easy clean-up, fast drying, high gloss, good resolubility, good transfer, good scuff and rub resistance, excellent adhesion on films and foils. Eastman polymers are also a good grinding vehicle for a variety of pigments and an excellent binder for the fluorescent and metallic pigments, resulting in super gloss flexo and gravure fluorescent and metallic ink systems with stability approaching six months or longer. These gravure and flexo inks and overprint varnishes demonstrated print quality and printing speeds equal to or superior to solvent inks. Eastman®AQ polymer containing inks are ideal ink systems for paper, board, aluminum foil and film substrates.
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Sharma, M.K., Phan, H.D. (1991). Water-Based Flexo and Gravure Inks Containing Eastman AQ Polyesters. In: Sharma, M.K. (eds) Surface Phenomena and Additives in Water-Based Coatings and Printing Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2361-5_3
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