Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
12th International symposium on Graphic Engineering and Design, GRID 2024, Novi-Sad, Sırbistan, 14 - 16 Kasım 2024
Inkjet printing system, one of the digital printing systems, has a more widespread market day by day due to its low operating costs and allowing variable data printing. Bio-based inks, in which natural polymers are used and whose solvent is water, are attracting more and more attention both in the food industry and other industries, in order to reduce the decrease in oil resources and possible harm to environmental and human health. Polymers that can be used in naturally sourced inks include cellulose, starch, polylactic acid, polyvinyl alcohol, and cellulose derivatives. In this study, water-based ink was prepared with magenta pigment as a colorant and hydroxyethyl cellulose, a natural polymer as a binder, and printed with thermal inkjet, and its printability properties were examined. For this purpose, the study started with the preparation of ink. In ink production, first, a binder was prepared with hydroxyethyl cellulose and water. 6.5% magenta pigment was added into the prepared binder. The viscosity of the ink was adjusted to 9 cP using pure water. Since the colorant used is water-soluble, there is no need for a surfactant. Surface tension was adjusted to 31 mN/m with 3 drops of BYK 348. Test prints were made with the obtained ink using the BENTSAI BT-HH6105B1 Portable Handheld Mobile inkjet printing machine. The most stable prints were obtained at 1 m/s speed, 300 dpi resolution and 11 volt printing parameters. The color measurements of the obtained prints were measured with an X-Rite spectrophotometer and their gloss was measured BYK Gardner gloss meter. As a result, it was determined that stable ink with good printability parameters was produced in thermal inkjet.