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Ink Testing and Analysis

Analysis and testing of Inks.

Intertek offers inks chemical and physical testing analysis techniques, providing customer research, quality and problem solving support. Laboratory and related activites undertaken for ink manufacturers include testing, consulting and regulatory expertise.

Ink testing for food, pharmaceutical and other packaging: 

  • Ink and coating product formulation characterisation and impurity structural elucidation
    • NMR, MS, MS/MS, LC-MS/MS, vibrational spectroscopy, UV-vis, fluorescence, viscosity, headspace GC
     
  • High Resolution Microscopy
    • Particulate pigment systems (TEM)
    • Compatibility of printing technology, such as printheads with ink (SEM)
    • Coated surfaces and multilayer systems (SEM, TEM, SPM and interferometry)
     
  • Advanced data handling solutions where data manipulation and interpretation are required
    • Statistical measurements of variance between the properties of ink batches
    • This is particularly useful when understanding printed property data (optical density, L*a*b* colour space, etc.)
     
  • Working with polymeric species and providing analytical support for a variety of chemistries, including acrylated urethanes, epoxies, polyesters, and acrylics (GPC, Pyrolysis GC, etc.)
  • Trace heavy metals and residual inorganic impurities in material Ash/ ICP-AES or ICP-MS in product formulation
  • Physical chemistry property determination (pKa, LogP, LogD, solubility etc.) for formulation components
  • Forensic type investigations into ink contamination during manufacturing process (e.g. plasticisers absorbed from hoses, etc.)
  • UV Cure technologies:
    • UV-Cure ink formulation characterisation and impurity structural elucidation including the properties and interaction of the Monomers, Photoinitiators, Pigment, Additives and Oligomers
    • DSC for the study of complex thermal properties at various degrees of curing as an indicator for the degree of cross-linking
    • FTIR to quantify and monitor residual functional groups
  • Pyrolysis GCMS identification of polymer constituents in an aqueous ink dispersion
Ink and coating testing:

to see how Intertek can help your organization with Ink Testing and Analysis.