Color Materials

Color Materials: Digital

Inks and Coatings for Digital Printing

Sun Chemical and its parent company, the DIC Corporation, offer the largest range of digital inks and coatings available worldwide for virtually every inkjet application.

Backed by the formulation capabilities and application expertise to create new market opportunities for digital printing, Sun Chemical’s inkjet inks and coatings solutions for OEM printers can be used for packaging, display graphics, textiles, décor, ceramics and tiles, labels, plastic cards, industrial printing and more.

Sun Chemical also offers direct-to-consumer solvent inkjet inks that are compatible with popular wide and super-wide format printers in the graphic markets as well as water-based digital inks for the textiles market on any fabric. Our wide range of acid dye inks, pigment inks, sublimation inks and reactive inks are formulated for your specifications and needs.

Combining Sun Chemical’s ink manufacturing heritage with its decades of digital experience provides many inkjet printing advantages including:

  • Excellent open time in printheads
  • High productivity
  • Reduced print head maintenance intervals and longer life
  • Reliable jetting
  • High resistance images
  • Wide color gamut
  • Proven, tried, tested and assured ink technology

Below is a sampling of Sun Chemical inkjet inks and coatings solutions for the digital printing market:

  • Edible Inks for Direct Food Printing

    Sun Chemical has optimized a range of edible inks for direct food printing which offer outstanding print performance across a range of printing systems. Focusing on color and print quality over a range of substrates means our range of edible inks are versatile and reliable in all production environments. All colorants used in the production of Sun Chemical edible inks are carefully selected to be safe and compliant for use in food printing.