Ink-paper interactions

Lyne, M. B., and Aspler, J. S., Ink-Paper Interactions in Printing —A Review. In Colloids and Surfaces in Reprographic Technology (M. Hair and M. D. C roucher, Eds.), American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1982. 

Infrared microspectroscopy is used in the pulp and paper industry73 for compositional analysis of pulp, wet end and size press chemical components in paper contaminants, additives and cellulose, and inks. Wilkinson et al.74 studied ink-paper interactions to discern changing ink properties when applied to paper. In this work, the authors employed synchrotron-based reflectance infrared microspectroscopy as a rapid, direct and nondestructive analysis approach for the study of inks on paper. The authors of this chapter expect infrared imaging to gain popularity as a technique for paper analysis. 

In this review, ink-paper interactions during and after the printing nip will be examined starting with the least complicated... 

The surface properties of cellulose, wood fibre, and naper are of great importance in the production and utilization of paper and board. Phenomena as diverse as the formation of fibre-fibre bonds in papermaking and the ink-paper interaction during printing processes are certainly influenced by the surface properties of fibres and sheet. With the development of increasingly sophisti-... 

High quality color reproduction is now obtainable by ink jet printing and will be illustrated. Once the printing parameters are selected, the quality achieved in the color reproduction depends strongly on the materials parameters of the system. Ink-paper interactions, ink formulation, and paper surface preparation all contribute to the quality of the resulting print. Archivality of the print is controlled by the lightfastness of the dye, the pH of the ink, and of the waterfastness achieved. 

The differences in analytical results obtained as inks age has been attributed to a decrease in the extraction efficiency of the solvent toward the constituents of the ink the longer the ink has been on the paper the harder they are to extract. This has been attributed to a number of factors either in isolation or in combination. These include evaporation of the solvent from the ink, chemical reactions such as oxidation and polymerization of the constituents of the ink, and ink-paper interactions. The method used involves comparing the concentration of the components of the ink from a sample of unknown age with... 

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