DyStar´s new ranges of market leading, ultra-intense inks show improved longer life time and user-friendly open time for the print-heads, with excellent robustness in processing. They also meet the most stringent ecological and fastness requirements, the company said.

 

All newly launched Jettex Black inks exceed current limits and are setting new industry benchmarks towards deepest blacks.

 

New vat inks

 

Thus far none of the digital printing systems could fulfill the very highfastness requirements on inks in the home textile segment, e.g. the very highfastness to light (especially in pale shades), highfastness to multiple washing and fastness to rubbing, according to DyStar.

 

Based on their Indanthren® Vat dyes, DyStar developed Jettex Vat inks, which the company said is the first industrialized vat inks on the market. Their high-performance characteristics include:

 

• Highfastness to light, even in pale shades

• Highfastness to multiple washing

• No crease markings like pigment prints

• Good fastness to rubbing

• Real, dark blacks compared to pigment prints

• Vivid, brilliant shades

• Excellent handle and drape of fabrics

 

The new Jettex Vat inks are the a for the home textile market, DyStar said. The CMYK color set is already available and DyStar will launch more shades in 2016 to offer a complete range to industries with high performance requirements.

 

ZIMMER AUSTRIA and DyStar have partnered for many years in developing inkjet technology. This cooperation is also the base of the VAT inkjet printing technology used in Zimmer’s Colaris high-performance inkjet printer. Zimmer’s Colari. is based on the Fuji Dimatix Starfire technology which is one of the most robust and reliable printheads on the market using a circulation system, according to the company.

 

DyStar introduces information and process optimization system

 

At ITMA, DyStar also introduced eliot™, its newly developed, internet-based tool for product selection and process optimization in the dyeing process. The tool was developed during the last year by consolidating different expert systems and information databases into one comprehensive function for DyStar’s customers.

 

With a well-structured user interface, eliot is very intuitive and can easily be used, DyStar said. The responsive design offers the flexibility to use eliot on any computer or tablet and with various browsers. eliot currently consists of four modules and will be extended in the near future. Currently, eliot offers the following modules:

 

• Green Selection

• Product Finder

• Optidye®

• Information

 

The Green Selection module contains the DyStar “Positive Lists” for some leading brands and retailers or eco standards. The “Positive Lists” are a selection of recommended DyStar products that are compliant to brands and retailers’ Restricted Substances Lists or the selected eco standard. eliot allows the user to filter or sort products and save product selections as favorites. These favorites can also be used in the other modules.

 

All modules offer a link to directly open the technical data sheets of the individual products, which contain product details such as suitability for certain dyeing and printing processes, dye characteristics, appearance under different light sources, build-up, etc.

 

The Product Finder module allows the user to search for technical properties of DyStar products by fastness criteria and dyeing or application performance. The selection can be a combination of both fastness and dyeing properties and the result can be exported to Excel.

 

Optidye® programs offer recipe or process optimization that help to shorten the dyeing cycle and reduce the effluent load. Optidye programs increase the reliability of the dyeing process for better right-first-time processing and improved quality of finished products.

 

In addition, eliot contains a variety of information about DyStar products and processes, e.g. brochures, shade cards, technical data sheets, testing methods.

 

This was only the first step in the development of eliot. Dystar will continuously extend and improve the tool by adding more function modules and by making it available in different languages. In addition, more Restricted Substance Lists and technical information will be added.

 

Source: DyStar