Substrate treat for inkjet

[Luc St-Pierre]

Is there a known and easy to apply treatment on any substrate to make it “inkjetable”? I am mostly interested to print on polyethylene, oleifin, polyester, acetate etc. Any tips?
Thank you.

[Bret Hesler]

Inkaid is the only one I have heard of. No experience with the product, just heard about it in the Epson forums.

Bret

[Luc St-Pierre]

Anyone having actually used the product?

[jrt]

You should probably check with the manufacturer of your printer. We ran a synthetic on a solvent printer a few years ago and though the image looked good after a while we started losing nozzles in the printheads. Turns out the material caused the printheads to fail. I never got a good explanation as to why but it cost me some money learning the hard way.

[Eyal Gragir]

this plasma treat is a proces used to treat plasstics befor ebeing paited. it changes surface energy dramatically. not cheap and can be build to suit your needs.
try Website: Plasmatreat - Openair® plasma technology – surface activation. or TANTEC Plasma Treatment and Corona Treatment Equipment and Technology
good luck
eyal g

[Barry Brown]

Is there a known and easy to apply treatment on any substrate to make it “inkjetable”? I am mostly interested to print on polyethylene, oleifin, polyester, acetate etc. Any tips?
Thank you.

Fujifilm supply a couple of different types of "adhesion promoter" for use with Fujifilm Sericol UVijet inks and Fuji's Acuity UV printer, for printing on fluted polyolefins, Glossy PVC, acylic, ec. For that application these are wipe-on. I don't know if these would be applicable to other inkjet inks or other application methods, but I guess you could ask Fujifilm Sericol for further advice.
regards,
Barry

[Bigfish]

You should be able to get all those products already coated for your printer. Are you haveing issues with that?

[Luc St-Pierre]

Yes I am. The whole purpose of this is to print packaging samples on heat-shrink films, then test them into a heat tunnel. The substrate used for testing must be the same brand-type-gauge-(batch?) as the real-life material. No substitutes.