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Description	M87 ADHESION PROMOTER FOR HARD TO PRINT SUBSTRATES M87 is an adhesion promoter for use with UV inks and LED curable inks when printing on metals, aluminum, stainless steel, copper, coated metals, and other hard-to-print substrates. The M87 is also an excellent UV adhesion promoter for melamine coated products. This UV Adhesion promoter for metal helps UV inkjet ink adhesion onto stainless steel, coated metals, aluminum, iron, copper, Melamine (Formica) and acrylics. The M87 digital primer helps UV ink stick permanently to metal and coated aluminum substrates. This UV ink adhesion promoter helps increases productivity. Additionally, the M87 is widely used as UV adhesion promoter for printing aluminum cans. The Natron M87 Adhesion Promoter is the first choice for coated, painted surfaces, and bare metals. This promoter works well with all types of inks, including UV, UVLED, and solvent-based inks. Additionally, it works on a wide variety of other materials, such as acrylic and melamine. Learn more about metal priming solutions. What is the purpose of an adhesion promoter? Adhesion promoters, also known as surface pre-treatments, are chemicals or substances that enhance the bonding properties between two surfaces. These bonding agents work by modifying the surface properties, thereby making it possible for inks, coatings, paints, or adhesives to bond to the material. In summary, adhesion promoters enable inks, coatings, adhesives, or paints to stick to a surface by increasing the strength and durability of the bond. What is the adhesion promoter for UV and UV LED inks? The M87 is an example of an adhesion promoter that is useful when printing with UV and UV inkjet inks that are difficult to bond to materials like certain stainless steel, melamine, coated metals, and acrylics. Ink primer Natron M87 metal primer improves UV inkjet ink adhesion to all stainless steel items and other coated metals. This adhesion promoter for metal strengthens the bond between UV printing ink and the metal substrate, primarily stainless steel. Once cured, the M87 UV Adhesion primer for stainless steel drastically improves the bonding and durability of UV prints made on metal. This M87 Primer for aluminum beverage cans helps digital UV ink adhesion on metal using any type of UV printing inks. This is the ultimate UV inkjet inks priming solution for stainless steel items. This UV inkjet primer works exceptionally well with all OEM inks including Inkcups S1 UV Inkjet Ink, Vivid White UV Curable Ink, and Mimaki UV Inks including LH-100 hard ink and many more UV inkjet inks. A stainless steel surface molecular activator is scientifically formulated to actively transform the micro-structure of stainless steel surfaces to create permanent bonding. This metal UV adhesion promoter creates permanent bonding through the use of nano-scale materials, allowing bonding on virtually every type of metal surface. Both stainless steel and coated metals, aluminum are common substrates that are impossible to print. Examples of stainless steel applications are Stainless Steel Tumblers, Stainless Steel vacuum Insulated Water Bottles, Stainless Steel stemless Wine Glasses. For traditional printing UVMK and MG Series ink for screen and pad printing are ideal to print on all metal substrates. However, due to stainless steel manufacturing process, printing is challenging compared to most substrates. What is stainless steel? According to Wikipedia Stainless steel is a group of iron-based alloys that contain a minimum of approximately 11% chromium. This composition prevents the iron from rusting and also provides heat-resistant properties. Stainless steel’s resistance to rusting results from the presence of chromium in the alloy, which forms a passive film that protects the underlying material from corrosion attack, and can self-heal in the presence of oxygen. In addition, corrosion resistance can be increased further, by: increasing the chromium content to levels above 11%; addition of 8% or higher amounts of nickel; and addition of molybdenum. The addition of nitrogen also improves resistance to pitting corrosion and increases mechanical strength. Thus, there are numerous grades of stainless steel with varying chromium and molybdenum contents to suit the environment the alloy must endure. Learn more about stainless steel manufacturing. What makes metal impossible to print with UV ink? Stainless steel is an extremely difficult material to print using UV inkjet inks, due to its very smooth surface. Any type of ink does not adhere on stainless steel and coated metals. Most durable UV inks have a problem with adhesion. In addition, the manufacturing of stainless steel and coated metal involves adding chromium which creates self healing properties to metal in the presence of oxygen. This makes printing on stainless steel virtually impossible to print. Preparing metal surfaces for inkjet printing Stainless steel should never be painted unless it has first been abraded with a galvanized metal-etching primer. It prepares the surface of the metal, which allows digital UV inkjet ink to adhere onto the metal surface. No other type of primer will promote adequate adhesion. Never paint over an un-primed stainless-steel surface, or the finish will chip and peel soon after application. As a result, Boston Industrial Solutions, developed the M87 Stainless steel UV adhesion promoter. Characteristics of metals. Characteristics of stainless steel are moderate corrosion resistance, are not susceptible to stress corrosion, magnetic, cannot be hardened by heat treatment. Other uses of stainless steel include annealed condition, and have a poor weld-ability for most grades. This latter characteristic also makes its difficult for UV inkjet inks to bond Primer for aluminum Additionally, the M87 Primer for stainless steel from Boston Industrial solutions works on all metal substrates. This primer will 100% work on any metal substrate. We also make silicone adhesion promoters for aluminum and other metals. Learn more about the Natron Primers. The Natron M87 Primer uses: – Cleans the metal surface for printing – Aids UV inkjet ink adhesion onto stainless steel, raw metals, coated metals, and formica substrates – Also works well with UV Screen printing or pad printing inks.	UV ADHESION PROMOTER FOR PLASTICS Natron® PP3 inkjet primer for plastics is a special primer formulated to guarantee printing ink adhesion on difficult-to-print low surface energy plastics such as polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), Polyacetal (POM), Nylon, EPT rubber, acetal, EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) and powder-coated substrates. PP3 is an adhesion promoter, anti-static agent, and cleaner designed for use with UV and LED curable inks on plastic substrates. Both Polypropylene and Polyethylene are common plastics that have low surface energy making them impossible for great ink adhesion. This plastic primer increases the plastics surface energy, which in turn improves the ink-substrate bond. 270 Hard and 314 Series UV and LED curable inkjet inks are ideal for printing on plastics. However, there are some plastics that are more challenging than others. These are low energy plastics according to finecal article “How to Bond Low Surface Energy (LSE) Plastics.” This low surface energy property inhibits an ink’s ability to properly ‘wet out’ or bond to the plastic surface. This of course causes problems with many plastic inks leading to weak adhesion or failure of the ink to adhere at all onto the plastic substrate. For this reason, you need Natron™ pp3 inkjet primer for plastics. To learn more about plastics check out this video by National Geographic. Characteristics of Low surface energy plastics, or LSE plastics They are generally glossy, smooth and have a low melting point so they’re easy to process, even at high volumes, and they’re low-density, which helps with light-weighting. Because low surface energy is the primary characteristic of this group, they’re all more difficult to bond. Inkjet primer for plastics primer Additionally, the inkjet primer for plastics from Boston Industrial solutions works with all LSE plastic substrates. This primer will will 100% work on any plastic substrate. The Natron PP3 Plastic Primer is used to: Reduces product surface tension for better bond Guarantee ink adhesion polypropylene & polyethylene It is also perfect for screen printing or pad printing applications The PP3 inkjet Primer for plastics comes in several sizes. We created this knowing that different customers have different needs. Check out Priming is the solution article here Using the Natron™ Polypropylene adhesive primer Lastly, TP Series is an all purpose ink for pad and screen printing on plastics. With the primer, the printed surface is enhanced by this advanced colorless plastic primer. The primer cleans the surface, leaving a shinny film. This prepares the substrate to receive the ink. Learn more about printing pre-treatment methods and UV ink primers for inkjet printing Another substrate that is a challenge to print is glass. Learn more about G1 Glass primer.	JETABLE UV ADHESION PROMOTER FOR METAL, GLASS, AND TILES JP254 Jettable Adhesion Promoter guarantees UV ink adhesion to metals, glass, tiles, and ceramic materials. Similar to UV ink, UV jettable primers are printed on specific areas of a part and dried with UV light. To use this adhesion promoter, the UV printer requires an additional print head. This digital primer improves UV ink adhesion between the UV ink and the material. JP254 adhesion promoter eliminates the need to switch inks for different substrates. This high-performance jettable primer gets rid of wipe-on primers in the work environment. The JP254 UV Jettable Adhesion Promoter works well with all piezeo electric print heads including Toshiba, Ricoh Gen 3, 4, 5, Konica, and many more print-heads. Additionally, it has a shelf life of 18 months. Here is the technical data sheet for this primer. To learn more about UV cylindrical inkjet machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggh0Ptk3VGE The Benefits of a UV Jettable Primer Improves adhesion to difficult substrates – even in wet conditions Applied on demand in-line and only where necessary, thus saving time and money Eliminates the need to switch to another ink, which is also often more aggressive High jetting performance & reliability Good curing speed Long shelf life (18 months) Check out Priming is the solution article here The JP254 Jettable Adhesion Promoter for metals, glass, and tiles requires an extra print head. UV printers are retrofitted with an extra print head to print the UV adhesion primer before the inks are printed. Many digital printing equipments have the space available to apply the digital primer in-line. Once implemented, it is a huge advantage to be able to enable or disable the application of the primer depending on the substrate to be printed on, rather than having to switch to another ink set that is specifically designed to print on the difficult substrate. In addition, ink sets for printing on glass or metal are hard to find and more aggressive to the system components, leading to more print head replacements and tube leaks.	ADHESION PROMOTER FOR GLASS, METAL, AND CARBON FIBER UV ink adhesion promoter—Natron® Fi prepares Glass, Metal (coated and uncoated), Stainless steel, Aluminum, carbon fiber, and other substrates for printing with UV and UV-LED inkjet inks. This UV primer is one of our advanced formulations. This metal and glass primer strengthens the bond between UV inkjet ink and the substrates. Once cured, this adhesion promoter for glass and metals improves the bonding and durability of UV prints made on metal.
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M87 ADHESION PROMOTER FOR HARD TO PRINT SUBSTRATES

M87 is an adhesion promoter for use with UV inks and LED curable inks when printing on metals, aluminum, stainless steel, copper, coated metals, and other hard-to-print substrates. The M87 is also an excellent UV adhesion promoter for melamine coated products.

This UV Adhesion promoter for metal helps UV inkjet ink adhesion onto stainless steel, coated metals, aluminum, iron, copper, Melamine (Formica) and acrylics. The M87 digital primer helps UV ink stick permanently to metal and coated aluminum substrates. This UV ink adhesion promoter helps increases productivity. Additionally, the M87 is widely used as UV adhesion promoter for printing aluminum cans.

The Natron M87 Adhesion Promoter is the first choice for coated, painted surfaces, and bare metals. This promoter works well with all types of inks, including UV, UVLED, and solvent-based inks. Additionally, it works on a wide variety of other materials, such as acrylic and melamine. Learn more about metal priming solutions.

What is the purpose of an adhesion promoter?

Adhesion promoters, also known as surface pre-treatments, are chemicals or substances that enhance the bonding properties between two surfaces. These bonding agents work by modifying the surface properties, thereby making it possible for inks, coatings, paints, or adhesives to bond to the material. In summary, adhesion promoters enable inks, coatings, adhesives, or paints to stick to a surface by increasing the strength and durability of the bond.

What is the adhesion promoter for UV and UV LED inks?

The M87 is an example of an adhesion promoter that is useful when printing with UV and UV inkjet inks that are difficult to bond to materials like certain stainless steel, melamine, coated metals, and acrylics.

Ink primer

Natron M87 metal primer improves UV inkjet ink adhesion to all stainless steel items and other coated metals. This adhesion promoter for metal strengthens the bond between UV printing ink and the metal substrate, primarily stainless steel. Once cured, the M87 UV Adhesion primer for stainless steel drastically improves the bonding and durability of UV prints made on metal.

This M87 Primer for aluminum beverage cans helps digital UV ink adhesion on metal using any type of UV printing inks. This is the ultimate UV inkjet inks priming solution for stainless steel items.

This UV inkjet primer works exceptionally well with all OEM inks including Inkcups S1 UV Inkjet Ink, Vivid White UV Curable Ink, and Mimaki UV Inks including LH-100 hard ink and many more UV inkjet inks.

A stainless steel surface molecular activator is scientifically formulated to actively transform the micro-structure of stainless steel surfaces to create permanent bonding.

This metal UV adhesion promoter creates permanent bonding through the use of nano-scale materials, allowing bonding on virtually every type of metal surface. Both stainless steel and coated metals, aluminum are common substrates that are impossible to print. Examples of stainless steel applications are Stainless Steel Tumblers, Stainless Steel vacuum Insulated Water Bottles, Stainless Steel stemless Wine Glasses.

For traditional printing UVMK and MG Series ink for screen and pad printing are ideal to print on all metal substrates. However, due to stainless steel manufacturing process, printing is challenging compared to most substrates.

What is stainless steel?

According to Wikipedia Stainless steel is a group of iron-based alloys that contain a minimum of approximately 11% chromium. This composition prevents the iron from rusting and also provides heat-resistant properties.

Stainless steel’s resistance to rusting results from the presence of chromium in the alloy, which forms a passive film that protects the underlying material from corrosion attack, and can self-heal in the presence of oxygen. In addition, corrosion resistance can be increased further, by:

increasing the chromium content to levels above 11%;
addition of 8% or higher amounts of nickel; and
addition of molybdenum.

The addition of nitrogen also improves resistance to pitting corrosion and increases mechanical strength. Thus, there are numerous grades of stainless steel with varying chromium and molybdenum contents to suit the environment the alloy must endure. Learn more about stainless steel manufacturing.

What makes metal impossible to print with UV ink?

Stainless steel is an extremely difficult material to print using UV inkjet inks, due to its very smooth surface. Any type of ink does not adhere on stainless steel and coated metals. Most durable UV inks have a problem with adhesion.

In addition, the manufacturing of stainless steel and coated metal involves adding chromium which creates self healing properties to metal in the presence of oxygen. This makes printing on stainless steel virtually impossible to print.

Preparing metal surfaces for inkjet printing

Stainless steel should never be painted unless it has first been abraded with a galvanized metal-etching primer. It prepares the surface of the metal, which allows digital UV inkjet ink to adhere onto the metal surface. No other type of primer will promote adequate adhesion. Never paint over an un-primed stainless-steel surface, or the finish will chip and peel soon after application.

As a result, Boston Industrial Solutions, developed the M87 Stainless steel UV adhesion promoter.

Characteristics of metals.

Characteristics of stainless steel are moderate corrosion resistance, are not susceptible to stress corrosion, magnetic, cannot be hardened by heat treatment. Other uses of stainless steel include annealed condition, and have a poor weld-ability for most grades. This latter characteristic also makes its difficult for UV inkjet inks to bond

Primer for aluminum

Additionally, the M87 Primer for stainless steel from Boston Industrial solutions works on all metal substrates. This primer will 100% work on any metal substrate. We also make silicone adhesion promoters for aluminum and other metals.

Learn more about the Natron Primers.

The Natron M87 Primer uses:

– Cleans the metal surface for printing
– Aids UV inkjet ink adhesion onto stainless steel, raw metals, coated metals, and formica substrates
– Also works well with UV Screen printing or pad printing inks.

UV ADHESION PROMOTER FOR PLASTICS

Natron® PP3 inkjet primer for plastics is a special primer formulated to guarantee printing ink adhesion on difficult-to-print low surface energy plastics such as polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), Polyacetal (POM), Nylon, EPT rubber, acetal, EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) and powder-coated substrates. PP3 is an adhesion promoter, anti-static agent, and cleaner designed for use with UV and LED curable inks on plastic substrates.

Both Polypropylene and Polyethylene are common plastics that have low surface energy making them impossible for great ink adhesion. This plastic primer increases the plastics surface energy, which in turn improves the ink-substrate bond.

270 Hard and 314 Series UV and LED curable inkjet inks are ideal for printing on plastics. However, there are some plastics that are more challenging than others. These are low energy plastics according to finecal article “How to Bond Low Surface Energy (LSE) Plastics.” This low surface energy property inhibits an ink’s ability to properly ‘wet out’ or bond to the plastic surface. This of course causes problems with many plastic inks leading to weak adhesion or failure of the ink to adhere at all onto the plastic substrate. For this reason, you need Natron™ pp3 inkjet primer for plastics.

To learn more about plastics check out this video by National Geographic.

Characteristics of Low surface energy plastics, or LSE plastics

They are generally glossy, smooth and have a low melting point so they’re easy to process, even at high volumes, and they’re low-density, which helps with light-weighting. Because low surface energy is the primary characteristic of this group, they’re all more difficult to bond.

Inkjet primer for plastics primer

Additionally, the inkjet primer for plastics from Boston Industrial solutions works with all LSE plastic substrates. This primer will will 100% work on any plastic substrate.

The Natron PP3 Plastic Primer is used to:

Reduces product surface tension for better bond
Guarantee ink adhesion polypropylene & polyethylene
It is also perfect for screen printing or pad printing applications

The PP3 inkjet Primer for plastics comes in several sizes. We created this knowing that different customers have different needs.

Check out Priming is the solution article here

Using the Natron™ Polypropylene adhesive primer

Lastly, TP Series is an all purpose ink for pad and screen printing on plastics. With the primer, the printed surface is enhanced by this advanced colorless plastic primer. The primer cleans the surface, leaving a shinny film. This prepares the substrate to receive the ink.

Learn more about printing pre-treatment methods and UV ink primers for inkjet printing

Another substrate that is a challenge to print is glass. Learn more about G1 Glass primer.

JETABLE UV ADHESION PROMOTER FOR METAL, GLASS, AND TILES

JP254 Jettable Adhesion Promoter guarantees UV ink adhesion to metals, glass, tiles, and ceramic materials. Similar to UV ink, UV jettable primers are printed on specific areas of a part and dried with UV light. To use this adhesion promoter, the UV printer requires an additional print head.

This digital primer improves UV ink adhesion between the UV ink and the material.

JP254 adhesion promoter eliminates the need to switch inks for different substrates. This high-performance jettable primer gets rid of wipe-on primers in the work environment. The JP254 UV Jettable Adhesion Promoter works well with all piezeo electric print heads including Toshiba, Ricoh Gen 3, 4, 5, Konica, and many more print-heads. Additionally, it has a shelf life of 18 months. Here is the technical data sheet for this primer.

To learn more about UV cylindrical inkjet machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggh0Ptk3VGE

The Benefits of a UV Jettable Primer

Improves adhesion to difficult substrates – even in wet conditions
Applied on demand in-line and only where necessary, thus saving time and money
Eliminates the need to switch to another ink, which is also often more aggressive
High jetting performance & reliability
Good curing speed
Long shelf life (18 months)

Check out Priming is the solution article here

The JP254 Jettable Adhesion Promoter for metals, glass, and tiles requires an extra print head. UV printers are retrofitted with an extra print head to print the UV adhesion primer before the inks are printed. Many digital printing equipments have the space available to apply the digital primer in-line. Once implemented, it is a huge advantage to be able to enable or disable the application of the primer depending on the substrate to be printed on, rather than having to switch to another ink set that is specifically designed to print on the difficult substrate. In addition, ink sets for printing on glass or metal are hard to find and more aggressive to the system components, leading to more print head replacements and tube leaks.

ADHESION PROMOTER FOR GLASS, METAL, AND CARBON FIBER

UV ink adhesion promoter—Natron® Fi prepares Glass, Metal (coated and uncoated), Stainless steel, Aluminum, carbon fiber, and other substrates for printing with UV and UV-LED inkjet inks. This UV primer is one of our advanced formulations. This metal and glass primer strengthens the bond between UV inkjet ink and the substrates. Once cured, this adhesion promoter for glass and metals improves the bonding and durability of UV prints made on metal.

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