Ciba products for digital imaging.pdf

Ciba Products for Digital Imaging Innovative components for creative solutions Ciba Specialty Chemicals Value beyond chemistryCoating Effects Digital Imaging.qxd 9/16/04 1:13 PM Page 3 Digital imaging, and especially ink-jet printing, is a fast growing industry with special needs for innovative products and materials. Ciba Specialty Chemicals offers a wide range of products specifically formulated for digital imaging. Our full-scale color range of pigments and dyes create vivid photo quality images. We also offer stablizers that make colors last longer when exposed to light. We provide binders for ink jet receptive coatings to improve image permanence and photoinitiators for UV curing. Ciba products not only help ink jet prints look better, but also make them last longer. Making Prints Better — for first impressions that last ? Top fastness pigments for highest chroma and durability ? Easy-to-use pigment preparations ? Solvent dyes for high-speed systems ? Purified dyes for vivid and colorful photo quality images ? Binders for ink receptive coatings to improve image permanence ? Hindered Amine Light Stabilizers (HALS) tailored for water-based systems ? UV absorbers of high extinction for maximum protection ? Photoinitiators for UV cured high-speed production Digital Imaging.qxd 9/16/04 1:13 PM Page 4 Industrial Printing Our solvent soluble dyes for continuous ink jet printing on metal cans for bever- ages or food are deep black with excel- lent solubility. Ciba? ORASOL? Black RLI Photo-Quality Printing Our dyes and pigments are designed for high-quality images with vibrant colors and good fastness properties. Ciba? IRGASPERSE? Jet line of water soluble dyes offers high chroma and good image permanence. Ciba? IRGASPERSE? Jet Yellow 2G Ciba? IRGASPERSE? Jet Yellow RL Ciba? IRGASPERSE? Jet Magenta G Ciba? IRGASPERSE? Jet Magenta B Ciba? IRGASPERSE? Jet Cyan RL Ciba? IRGASPERSE? Jet Black GR Ciba? CROMOPHTAL? Jet and Ciba? IRGALITE? pigments designed