Pulse Roll Label Products unveils PureTone ink series

The PureTone range includes a high strength, mono-pigmented mixing ink system, which comprises nine base colors with the addition of a special Royal blue plus extender. The single pigment formulation of the nine mixing bases makes it easier to color match due to the reduced total number of pigments used in the mixed ink. This enables optimized color strength and cleaner colors to be achieved and also reduces the potential for metamerization, says the company.

The high strength formulation allows for lower film weights of ink resulting in reduced inventory and lower ink volume consumption for narrow web printers and provides greater flexibility for printing half-tones and full-tones using just one printing plate.

In conjunction with the new PureTone mixing bases, the use of an X-Rite Spectrophotometer and the latest Ink Formulation Software will achieve color standardization whereby special colors are created and matched much more quickly and accurately, eliminating color variations that can occur when matching by eye.

Gary Seward, managing director, Pulse Roll Label Products, said: ‘We are delighted to unveil our new high strength ink series, PureTone, at Labelexpo 2015. PureTone offers the global narrow web label industry an exciting concept in UV flexo ink technology which, supported by software and equipment from leading industry suppliers, provides a total color management solution and color standardization, which label printers will benefit from through long-term cost savings.’

In addition to the mono-pigmented mixing bases, the new PureTone ink series also includes a comprehensive range of process inks to meet the needs of today’s label printer. A combination of the company’s PureTone UV flexo process inks can also allow label printers to achieve ISO compliance. A range of lightfast colors also complements the PureTone process inks and PureTone mono-pigmented mixing bases.