Ink Matters

Mixing it up

Hybrid inks, a combination of conventional inks and UV/EB inks or coatings, were popular with survey respondents up until last year when less than 8 percent of printers said they used them.

The 2004 hybrid inks survey results followed in the same vein as 2003. Pointing to lack of experience and ink price, under 18 percent of respondents reported using hybrid inks. Those that did said they used the inks in combinations of poly/nitrocellulos, and hybrid ink plus primer plus UV inline.