Summary of the invention
Problem in view of above-mentioned prior art, the method of a kind of new raising colour density of demand and water-based jet ink composition that can print high quality images, described high quality graphic refers to: the colour density of image is high, without bleeding, glossiness is high and the literal edge without burr.
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of method of new raising colour density, and a kind of new water-based jet ink composition.The method and composition can print the high quality graphic that meets above-mentioned requirements.
Specifically, the present invention in water-based jet ink composition, add be generally used for plaing in coating, the paint etc. the tiling and sprawl the flow agent of effect, but produced unexpected effect.The image that the composition for ink that obtains like this prints has unexpected good colour density and, literal edge high without bleeding, glossiness without burr.
A first aspect of the present invention provides a kind of water-based jet ink composition, it comprises following composition: tinting material, water-miscible organic solvent, deionized water and flow agent, it is characterized in that, described tinting material is pigment or dyestuff, and described flow agent is selected from lower at least a: fluorochemical surfactant polymer B YK340, acrylic acid modified fluorine-carbon macromolecule compd E FKA3500 and fluorine-carbon modified organo-siloxane EFKA3034.
In a preferred implementation, described composition for ink also comprises at least a in the following component: permeate agent, tensio-active agent, sterilant and pH adjusting agent.
In another preferred implementation, described pigment is water-based self-dispersion type carbon black color slurry.
In another preferred implementation, wherein said water-based self-dispersion type carbon black color slurry is selected from: CAB-0-JET300, CAB-0-JET200, Acryjet are extremely black 170, Acryjet extremely black 125 and CABOT400R at least a.
In another preferred implementation, the composition of described composition for ink comprises: the flow agent of the dispersible pigment color paste of 1-40%, the water-miscible organic solvent of 10-50%, 0.1-1.0%, surplus is deionized water, wherein said each component concentration sum is 100%, take the composition for ink gross weight as benchmark.
In another preferred implementation, described dyestuff is selected from least a in the following dye paste: directly yellow 132, acid yellow 23, sun blue 199, reactive red 141 and Xylene Red 52.
In another preferred implementation, the composition of described composition for ink comprises: the flow agent of the dye paste of 1-50%, the water-miscible organic solvent of 10-40%, 0.1-1.0%, surplus is deionized water, wherein said each component concentration sum is 100%, take the composition for ink gross weight as benchmark.
In another preferred implementation, above-mentioned composition also comprises: the sterilant of the permeate agent of 3-20%, the tensio-active agent of 0.1-5%, 0.1-0.5% and the pH adjusting agent of 0.1-5.0%.
A second aspect of the present invention relates to a kind of purposes of flow agent, and it is used for water-based jet ink composition, improves the colour density of the image that described water-based jet ink prints.
In a preferred implementation, the content of described flow agent in composition for ink is 0.1-1.0%, take composition total weight as benchmark.
The water-based jet ink composition that contains flow agent of the present invention can improve the OD value of print image very effectively.Simultaneously, also can effectively reduce the consumption of dispersible pigment color paste or dye paste, thus decrease ink cost.And the smoothness of paint ink print image, reflecting feel are good, and erasibility is good, and the water-repellancy of dye ink print image improves.When colour print, high without bleeding phenomenon, printing character sharpness between the different colours, without burr phenomena etc.
Embodiment
Water-based jet ink composition of the present invention, it comprises: tinting material, water-miscible organic solvent, deionized water and flow agent.Can also choose wantonly and comprise one's own profession various auxiliary materials known in the art, comprise and be not limited to: permeate agent, tensio-active agent, sterilant, pH adjusting agent.
Described tinting material can be pigment or dyestuff, can select one's own profession various dispersible pigment color pastes known in the art or dye paste.
Before the present invention, flow agent is mainly used in the Chemicals such as coating, paint, plays tiling and filming function, and the coating or the paint that contain flow agent have the effect of well sprawling.Before the present invention, without any the report that is used for water-based jet ink about flow agent described in the present invention.
The present inventor is surprised to find that by creative work flow agent described in the present invention is used for water-based jet ink composition, has produced unexpected good effect, that is: it can improve the OD value of print image very effectively.Simultaneously, print image is high without bleeding, glossiness, the printing character sharpness is high, without burr phenomena.
The flow agent that uses among the present invention can adopt one's own profession various flow agents known in the art, but preferred the employing: directly available from the product of German Bi Ke chemical company (BYK-Chemie)
340, registered trademark is
Directly available from the product of Switzerland vapour Bagong department (Ciba)
3500 or
3034, registered trademark is
Wherein,
The-340th, the fluorochemical surfactant polymkeric substance is produced by German Bi Ke chemical company, and its materialization data are:
20 ℃ density: 0.97g/ml,
Solvent: dipropylene glycol monomethyl ether,
Non-volatility component 10%,
Flash-point is 75 ℃.
3500 Hes
3034 by the production of Switzerland vapour Bagong department, and the materialization data are as follows.
20 ℃ of density: 1.12-1.16g/cm
3,
Solvent: water,
Chemical constitution: acrylic acid modified fluorine-carbon macromolecule compound,
Activeconstituents: 50-52%,
Outward appearance: limpid, weak yellow liquid.
20 ℃ of density: 0.97-0.99g/cm
3,
Solvent: propylene glycol monomethyl ether;
Chemical constitution: fluorine-carbon modified organo-siloxane,
Active component content: 50-53%,
Refractive index: 1.422-1.432,
Flash-point: 32 ℃,
Outward appearance: milky white liquid.
Other components in the water-based jet ink composition of the present invention, comprise tinting material (pigment or dyestuff), water-miscible organic solvent and optional auxiliary material (for example permeate agent, tensio-active agent, sterilant, pH adjusting agent), be not particularly limited, can select one's own profession type known in the art.
Wherein pigment can adopt commercially available water-based self-dispersion type carbon black color slurry, the carbon black color slurry of U.S. Cabot Co.,Ltd for example, commodity are called CAB-0-JET300, CAB-0-JET200 and CABOT400R, the carbon black color slurry of U.S. Rhom and Hass, commodity Acryjet by name is extremely black 170, Acryjet extremely black 125.
Wherein dyestuff can adopt commercially available dye paste, is selected from: direct at least a in yellow 132, acid yellow 23, sun blue 199, reactive red 141 and the Xylene Red 52 etc.
Wherein water-miscible organic solvent is preferably selected from: at least a in ethanol, polyvalent alcohol, polyoxyethylene glycol or the water-soluble heteroato mic organic compound.
Described polyvalent alcohol comprises and is not limited to: glycol ether, triglycol, glycerine.
Described polyoxyethylene glycol comprises and is not limited to the polyoxyethylene glycol that molecular weight is 200-400.
Described water-soluble heteroato mic organic compound comprises and is not limited to: diethanolamine, trolamine, N-Methyl pyrrolidone, dihydroxyethylsulfide, tetramethylene sulfone, methane amide.
In the water-based jet ink of the present invention, permeate agent is preferably selected from: one or more in ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, diethylene glycol monobutyl ether, triethylene glycol butyl ether, propylene glycol monomethyl ether, the dihydroxypropane single-ethyl ether.
In the water-based jet ink of the present invention, wherein tensio-active agent is preferably selected from: nonionogenic tenside, especially preferred acetylenediol base nonionogenic tenside, the concrete Japan that has believes (the Nissin Chemical Industry Co. of chemical industrial company day, Ltd.) tensio-active agent, commodity are called olfine E1010, Olfine 104E; US Air gasification chemical product (the Air Products ﹠amp of company limited; Chemicals Inc.) tensio-active agent, commodity are called surfynol 465, surfynol 104 and surfynol TG etc.
In the water-based jet ink of the present invention, wherein sterilant is preferably selected from: the sanitas of U.S.'s Qi chemical industry difficult to understand, commodity are called proxel-GXL, proxel TN and proxel XL-2 etc.
In the water-based jet ink composition of the present invention, wherein pH adjusting agent is preferably selected from: trolamine and/or alkali metal hydroxide etc.
In a preferred implementation, paint ink composition of the present invention comprises: the dispersible pigment color paste of 1-40% (preferred carbon black color slurry), the water-miscible organic solvent of 10-50%, the flow agent of 0.1-1.0%, surplus is deionized water, the content sum of described each component (being dispersible pigment color paste, water-miscible organic solvent, flow agent, He Shui) is 100%, take composition total weight as benchmark.
Wherein, the preferred 5-30% of the content of dispersible pigment color paste.The preferred 10-35% of the content of water-miscible organic solvent.The preferred 0.1-0.5% of the content of flow agent.
Said composition can also further comprise: the pH adjusting agent (preferred 0.5-3%) of the tensio-active agent (preferred 0.5-2.5%) of the permeate agent of 3-20% (preferred 3-10%), 0.1-5%, the sterilant (preferred 0.1-0.3%) of 0.1-0.5%, 0.1-5%; The content sum of described each component (being dispersible pigment color paste, water-miscible organic solvent, flow agent, water, permeate agent, tensio-active agent, sterilant and pH adjusting agent) is 100%, take composition total weight as benchmark.
In another preferred implementation, dye ink composition of the present invention comprises: the flow agent of the dye paste of 1-50%, the water-miscible organic solvent of 10-40%, 0.1-1.0%, and surplus is deionized water; The content sum of described each component (being dye paste, water-miscible organic solvent, flow agent, He Shui) is 100%, take composition total weight as benchmark.
Wherein, the preferred 3-30% of the content of dye paste.The preferred 10-25% of the content of water-miscible organic solvent.The preferred 0.1-0.5% of the content of flow agent.
Said composition can also further comprise: the pH adjusting agent (preferred 0.5-3%) of the tensio-active agent (preferred 0.5-2.5%) of the permeate agent of 3-20% (preferred 5-15%), 0.1-5%, the sterilant (preferred 0.1-0.3%) of 0.1-0.5%, 0.1-5.0%; The content sum of described each component (being dye paste, water-miscible organic solvent, flow agent, water, permeate agent, tensio-active agent, sterilant and pH adjusting agent) is 100%, take composition total weight as benchmark.
Water-based jet ink composition of the present invention, preferred pH is 7-9.
Water-based jet ink composition of the present invention is formulated according to the known ordinary method in the industry.Specifically comprise: mix each component, after stirring, filter, obtain the aqueous ink composition that ink-vapor recording is used.Wherein the paint ink GS-25 glass fiber filter strainer that adopts Japanese ADVANTEC company to produce filters, and dye ink is with the film filter filtration of 0.22 μ m.
Flow agent is used for water-based jet ink composition when improving the colour density of its print image, and flow agent content is 0.1-1.0%, preferred 0.1-0.8%, and more preferably 0.2-0.5%, preferred 0.2-0.4% again is take the gross weight of composition as benchmark.
The water-based jet ink composition that contains flow agent of the present invention can improve colour density (OD) value of print image very effectively.Simultaneously, also can effectively reduce the consumption of dispersible pigment color paste or dye paste, thus decrease ink cost.In addition, the smoothness of paint ink print image, reflecting feel are good, and erasibility is good, and the water-repellancy of dye ink print image improves.When colour print, high without bleeding phenomenon, printing character sharpness between the different colours, without burr phenomena etc.
Embodiment
(1) preparation composition for ink
According to the prescription among the following table 1-4, the preparation composition for ink.Each amounts of components unit is weight part in the table, and composition total weight is 100 weight parts.Each component is mixed according to institute's expense, after stirring, filter.The GS-25 glass fiber filter strainer that paint ink adopts Japanese ADVANTEC company to produce filters, and dye ink is with the film filter filtration of 0.22 μ m.Obtain the aqueous ink for inkjet recording composition, wherein the paint ink static surface tension is 30-35mN/m, and viscosity is 1.5-2.5cP; The dye ink static surface tension is 16-26mN/m, and viscosity is 2.0-3.0cP.PH is 7-9.
Table 1 paint ink composition
(2) print image
The CB781A all-in-one multifunctional machine that uses Hewlett-Packard to make, carry out spray ink Printing at the A4 of different manufacturers production printer paper, sheet type comprises: happy (Askul) printer paper of love speed visitor of the objective happy company of speed is loved by day chapter paper industry, remarkable paper industry, two A (Double A) printer paper and Japan.
(3) print image evaluation
A. colour density (OD) pH-value determination pH
Adopt the X-Rite instrument to carry out the colour density pH-value determination pH of image.
B. mutually oozing property test
Ink and other combination of inks of above-mentioned configuration are used, the printing color image, the range estimation printing effect is divided into Three Estate with it:
Zero: without bleeding
△: bleeding is slightly arranged
*: serious bleeding
C. glossiness evaluation
With the monochromatic piece of the ink printed of above-mentioned configuration, the range estimation printing effect is divided into Three Estate with it:
Zero: reflecting feel is clearly arranged
△: slightly glossy
*: tarnish
D. text effects evaluation
With the ink printed literal of above-mentioned configuration, the range estimation printing effect is divided into Three Estate with it:
Zero: sharp keen, without burr phenomena
△: slight burr phenomena is arranged
*: serious burr phenomena is arranged
(4) interpretation of result
Table 5 paint ink test result
|
Ink 1 |
Ink 2 |
Ink 3 |
Ink 4 |
Ink 5 |
Ink 6 |
Ink 7 |
OD value (day chapter paper industry) |
1.16 |
1.43 |
1.13 |
1.38 |
1.11 |
1.40 |
1.15 |
OD value (remarkable paper industry) |
1.13 |
1.45 |
1.10 |
1.42 |
1.13 |
1.45 |
1.12 |
OD value (two A) |
1.04 |
1.35 |
1.11 |
1.37 |
1.12 |
1.36 |
1.10 |
OD value (liking that the speed visitor is happy) |
1.17 |
1.44 |
1.15 |
1.45 |
1.15 |
1.13 |
1.13 |
Mutual oozing property |
○ |
○ |
○ |
○ |
○ |
○ |
○ |
Glossiness |
× |
○ |
○ |
○ |
○ |
○ |
○ |
Text effects |
△ |
○ |
○ |
○ |
○ |
○ |
○ |
Table 6 dye ink test result
Table 7 dye ink test result
Table 8 dye ink OD value
According to the test result shown in the above-mentioned table 5-8 as can be known, paint ink is under surface tension and the essentially identical prerequisite of viscosity, under the consistent situation of mill base ratio, add the OD value of the ink of the present invention of flow agent, compare with the ink (ink 1) without flow agent, on different printer papers, all increase 20-30%.In the basically identical situation of OD value, add the ink of the present invention of flow agent, to compare with the ink without flow agent, the consumption of mill base reduces 33.3%.The good effect of oozing mutually before the ink of the present invention that adds flow agent can not change---between the different colours without the bleeding phenomenon.The luminance brightness and the literal sharpness that add the ink institute print image of flow agent have clear improvement; Without the image glossiness of the ink of flow agent not as containing the flow agent ink.
Dye ink under the consistent situation of mill base ratio, adds the ink of the present invention of flow agent under surface tension and the essentially identical prerequisite of viscosity, compare OD value increase 11-15% with the ink (ink 8,11 and 14) without flow agent.In the basically identical situation of OD value, add the ink of the present invention of flow agent, than the ink of nothing flow agent, the consumption of mill base reduces 13-17%.And, adding the ink of the present invention of flow agent, the good effect of oozing mutually before can not changing---without the bleeding phenomenon, luminance brightness and the literal sharpness of ink of the present invention institute print image that adds flow agent is desirable between the different colours.