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    Have you had issues with the adhesion of the ink on coroplast?

    The media is usually the problem and not the ink. Most of coroplast have an element of PP in them. This causes the plastic to have a low surface energy, which will impact UV ink adhesion. To solve this you can use mechanical pre-treament options, flame treatment or chemical treatments such as PP...

  3. Adhesion Promoters

    Use M87 UV adhesion promoter from Boston Industrial Solutions. It works well on all raw metals (stainless steel, aluminum, copper, etc.) as well as coated metals and acrylics.

  4. [HELP!] Correx UV printing Issues

    For Correx, and Polypropylene plastics you need the Natron PP adhesion promoter - if the substrate is treated with corona from the manufacturer, it will eventually go back to it is original state (low surface energy) which will make the inks not to adhere to the substrate. PP Primer which is a...

  5. Adhesion promoter recommendation for EcoVU inks

    The Natron PP primer and PP3 UV adhesion promoters work very well on wide range of substrates and with any type of printing ink. https://bostonindustrialsolutions.com/product-category/inkjet-primers/

  6. Inkcups X2 machine?

    I have run into some older versions of X2 using Gen 4 heads. Newer (2018+ equipment have Gen 5). But verify with Inkcups.

  7. UV Inkjet primers

    Natron primers work very well with Mimaki inks, Helix and X2 inks. For metals (stainless steel, other metals both coated and un-coated) try the Natron M87 primer. For glass the Natron G1 UV glass primer works very well. The G1 UV inkjet primer also works very well with Tritan plastics. The...

  8. Digital UV on Powdercoated Metal

    There are several powder coating out there... for example polyester solid color powder coat from Prismatic Powders. This is one of the most common ones out there. To print on with UV inkjet inks / UV LED Digital inks, use Natron M87 Primer from Boston Industrial Solutions. This primer is very...

  9. Looking to buy a pad printer

    Check out Boston Industrial Solutions Volta Pad printing machines.... https://www.bostonindustrialsolutions.com/product-category/industrial-printing-equipment/pad-printing-machines/

  10. UV Printing on Silicone wristbands...is possible??

    Only silicone based inks will adhere onto silicone substrates. UV ink will not adheres onto silicone ink. You should print the substrate with UV ink and coat is with a silicone clear ink such as the Boston Industrial STC370 or SE 370 clear silicone ink. No primer or other liquids can aid ink...
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