SCUP: Printing Inks

Jul 2021. Printing inks are a customer- and applications-specific formulations business. A reputation for both quality products and technical service is essential for a printing ink company. There are two major end-use segments—commercial printing/publishing and packaging. Printing inks are also categorized by process; the five most common printing processes (in order of their worldwide market shares) are lithography (frequently referred to as offset), flexography, gravure (also called rotogravure), screen printing, and letterpress. Several other traditional printing processes account for a very small portion of printing revenues. Increasingly, nonimpact imaging processes—inkjet printing and electrostatic printing—are gaining a larger share of the print market. Since nonimpact, digital imaging is cost-effective for short runs and individualized printing and has essentially instant turnaround, its competitive space is different from that of conventional printing processes.

• Publish Date: 2021-07-09
• Chemical Focus: Specialty Markets
• Number of Pages: 202
• Content Type: Report
• Delivery: Email with link to PDF file

• Global and regional supply/demand and five-year forecast
• North America, Europe, China, Japan coverage
• Government regulations, trends and strategic issues
• Prices and operating characteristics
• Market participants and size by value and volume

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