Colour-change allows variable data

2 March 2009


SunLase is Sun Chemical’s new colour-change ink for in-line patch printing and subsequent marking with laser technology. Applicable by various print processes, it promises to open up many opportunities to add value to customer printing requirements, for displaying variable data on packaging.

The printed patch of SunLase is said to provide the flexibility to deliver a high definition variable output on a number of substrates using the latest laser technology. Packaging products can be nominally patch printed, reducing SKU’s considerably, and then marked and coded as required with characters and graphics without resetting any consumables, “giving excellent quality at very high speeds”.

SunLase inks and coatings contain specialised Datalase pigment and are formulated to be sensitive to specific low energy laser emissions as well as utilising CO2 absorbers and polymer technology allowing different substrates to be marked in-line with laser technology.

According to Sun, the new range offers end users the platform to introduce greater efficiencies and productivity as well as higher quality through the use of CO2 laser markers. Materials that weren’t usually fit for marking now become suitable through the use of SunLase and even allow corrugated boxes to become fully recyclable, the company states.




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