Month: December 2025

Hi everyone,I’m Alex, a technical engineer at Zhongzhixing (Starcolor). I’ve been working in the printing ink industry for over 15 years now. I started out as an apprentice on solvent-based ink production lines, then moved on to water-based and UV ink R&D and manufacturing. Today, I mainly focus on technical support and after-sales service. Over…

Hey everyone, I’m Alex. I’ve been working with water-based inks for 15 years. When I first entered this industry, customers used to ask me: “Can water-based ink really be used for food packaging?” But today, almost every inquiry I get sounds more like: “Do you have FDA-compliant water-based direct food contact inks?” This shift didn’t…

As a printing consumable tailored to the flexographic process—characterized by anilox-cell metering and high-speed, low-pressure printing—the formulation of flexographic ink directly determines its transfer efficiency, curing performance, and final print quality. Under increasingly strict environmental regulations and diversified application requirements, ink systems have evolved from traditional solvent-based formulations toward more eco-friendly and functionalized systems. A…