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Low Migration UV-Curable Inkjet for Food Packaging
Derek Illsley
Steve Hall
Sam Moncur
Damian Ward
Tom Budden
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2013.29.1.art00033_2  Published Online :  January 2013
Abstract

UV-curable inks for single pass (web) inkjet printing with low migration potential and suitable for the printing of food packaging have been developed and optimised by mixtures design-of-experiment (DOE) methodologies. The inks have acceptable cure response in air (<250 mJ/cm2) and can deliver levels of contact migratables below 10ppb (0.01mg/Kg(foodstuff)) for each migratable monomer and photoinitiator species measured in this study. The inks can be prepared at viscosities suitable for all common printheads and their performance on commercial presses has been confirmed.

Journal Title : NIP & Digital Fabrication Conference
Publisher Name : Society of Imaging Science and Technology
Publisher Location : 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA
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Derek Illsley, Steve Hall, Sam Moncur, Damian Ward, Tom Budden, "Low Migration UV-Curable Inkjet for Food Packaging"  in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication (NIP29),  2013,  pp 391 - 394,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2013.29.1.art00033_2

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Articles
Low Migration UV-Curable Inkjet for Food Packaging
IllsleyDerek
HallSteve
MoncurSam
WardDamian
BuddenTom
01012013
2013
2
391
394
2013
UV-curable inks for single pass (web) inkjet printing with low migration potential and suitable for the printing of food packaging have been developed and optimised by mixtures design-of-experiment (DOE) methodologies. The inks have acceptable cure response in air (<250 mJ/cm2) and can deliver levels of contact migratables below 10ppb (0.01mg/Kg(foodstuff)) for each migratable monomer and photoinitiator species measured in this study. The inks can be prepared at viscosities suitable for all common printheads and their performance on commercial presses has been confirmed.