Silicone Ink— For More Environmentally Friendly Printing

Silicones are a high-performance alternative for textile printing inks that is both environmentally friendly as well as high-performing. DAS Waterbased Ink offer silicone ink that is designed to have the flowability, viscosity, and work-life needed for efficient printing in emerging textile printing operations. Textile manufacturers have reduced the use of PVC resins and replaced plasticizer-based systems in their inks in recent years due to environmental concerns and the possibility of skin irritation.

Our inks are best suited to replace these chemicals because they provide formulators with visually appealing, skin-safe, and environmentally friendly inks. Furthermore, a surge in screen printing on professional wear and for sensitive skin has encouraged printers and ink suppliers to develop a higher-performance printing ink.

Why Silicone Transfer Printing Ink?

• Outstanding soft hand feel and unique printing effects
• Brilliant durability, heat resistance and wash resistance
• Great elongation to avoid spider cracks and fades
• Eco-friendly— no phthalates, no PVS, no tin
• Greater flexibility
• Remarkable print-ability
• High-density silicone ink
• Low curing temperatures to avert dye migration
• User-friendly, extremely easy and quick to process
• Exceptional adhesion onto textiles and fabrics including nylon, cotton, polyester and blends

While silicone inks have been screen printed in the embellishment market for more than a decade, most printers still consider them as special ink.

Growing Uses of Silicone Water-based Ink

The most popular method for embellishing clothing is screen printing. Our inks have improved to the point that it’s now possible to add polymeric silicone pattern adhesives in applications besides clothing detailing, such as wearable devices, compression fabrics, and protective wear.

Silicone inks are mostly used in the athletic and athleisure markets. They cure at a low temperature (260°F), making them ideal for polyester, nylon, and blends. Silicones have unparalleled stretchability in screen printing inks, making them suitable for elastic garments in the sports apparel industry. Another issue that silicones can help with is dye migration in polyester fabrics, which can be regulated with a low-temperature cure and leak-blocking under bases.

Silicone-based inks and coatings assists in improving the durability of finished goods by letting them to be more resistant to ironing and washing over a wide range of temperatures. Also, they are very flexible, delivering both comfort and durability. Our silicones are easy to work with, quick to use in formulations, and cure quickly, sometimes even in under a minute. They can be used in a variety of printing methods, including screen, flexography, and heat transfer.

DAS Waterbased Ink Offers Top-Notch Printing Ink

DAS Waterbased Ink offers silicone transfer printing ink that is used in a variety of textiles, from raw and dyed fabrics and knits to finished goods such as clothing, fabric toys, household fabrics, specialty technical fabrics, and a variety of other everyday product.

Silicones are often commonly used as processing solutions that help ink spread, prevent foaming, and improve surface characteristics such as abrasion resistance. Many manufacturers use DAS Waterbased Ink’s innovative photoinitiator technology to cure advanced UV ink formulations. These inks are quickly becoming a staple in the industry because they expedite manufacturing and provide precise results on a variety of surfaces, including 3D applications and textile prints.

The most common applications of silicone inks include—

• 3D Printing
• Cotton caps/ Hats
• Performance textiles, Swimwear
• Polyester & Poly blends
• Spandex
• Transfer printing

Our inks are formulated, create and refined to comply with the strictest performance requirements of every industry. Our range of inks for sophisticated technologies and industries are non-corrosive and prepared to perform optimum under low as well as high temperatures.

Our silicone-based transfer printing inks offer robust adhesion for long-term stability. No matter what type of silicone product you are planning, DAS Waterbased Ink has the experience, expertise, processes and innovative technology to prepare our silicone polymers and catalysts according to your unique requirements and specifications.