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NuviINK Overview

Located in Irvine, California, Amica Systems' ink department boasts over 10 years of experience in ink development, customization engineering, and manufacturing. We offer a comprehensive range of digital inkjet printing solutions for industrial applications, including UV LED-curable, water-based, and solvent inks.

Amica specializes in formulating and manufacturing innovative inkjet inks for high-speed single-pass and multi-pass printing, utilizing a variety of technologies. Our R&D team customizes inks and provides tailored solutions to meet the specific requirements of our customers’ industrial applications. These requirements include, but are not limited to, ink colors, density, printing quality, accuracy, solvent resistance, scratch resistance, flexibility, adhesion on special substrates, weather resistance, dish-washing cycles, and safety standards.

One-Stop Complete Printing Solution

Amica provides comprehensive inkjet printing solutions suitable for various substrates, both rigid and flexible materials. With our proprietary RIP and color management technology, our inkjet solutions effortlessly deliver impressive prints that showcase intricate details and vibrant colors, whether using vector or bitmap files.

High-Performance Ink Solutions for Industrial Inkjet Printing Applications

  • Versatile Applications


    NuviINK includes both UV and water-based ink formulations. UV inks are suitable for direct printing on rigid and flexible materials, offering compatibility with coated and uncoated paper, plastics, metals, and glass. Water-based inks are ideal for porous, non-coated, and coated papers.

  • Compatibility with High-Performance Industrial Printheads


    NuviINK supports a variety of high-performance industrial printheads available on the market, including Ricoh, Kyocera, Epson, and Konica Minolta. It ensures excellent and consistent jetting performance across different drop sizes, facilitating optimal print quality and performance.

  • Extensive Color Selection


    NuviINK inks feature an extensive color palette that includes CMYK process inks, as well as light cyan and light magenta inks tailored for delicate tone printing, such as skin tones. Additionally, we offer specially formulated orange, green, and violet inks to expand the color gamut for high-end applications.

Custom Pantone and Spot Color Inks


Amica specializes in tailoring Pantone and spot colors to meet diverse application needs. Below are examples of spot inks we have developed for various applications.

High-Density White Base


Our high-density white ink delivers consistent coverage on colored surfaces, ensuring vibrant and attention-grabbing color results.

Spot Colors for Recognizing Colors

NuviINK UV Ink Series

In addition to our standard general-use inks, we also innovate functional inks tailored to meet specific industrial application requirements for our customers.

  • Flexible Inks - Engineered for printing on rigid substrates, offering excellent solvent, abrasion, and weather resistance.

  • Rigid Inks - Designed to have excellent solvent, abrasion and weather resistance for printing on rigid substrate.

  • Fluorescent Inks - Offer vivid colors under daylight and emit vibrant, glowing fluorescent colors under UV black light. Available in yellow, orange, green, and pink, with more colors coming soon.

  • Inks for Aluminum and Glass - Formulated for superior adhesion on uncoated aluminum and glass surfaces without the need for primer or baking. Ensures excellent and stable jetting performance.

  • High-Density Black Inks - High-contrast black inks specifically designed for marking and coding applications, supporting stable jetting performance at high jetting speeds.

  • Jettable Primer - Transparent primer for printing on challenging substrates to achieve excellent adhesion.

  • Non-Jettable Adhesion Promotor - Available for commonly used rigid materials like glass, ceramic, and stainless steel to enhance adhesion.

  • Varnish - Various types of jettable varnishes developed to add glossy effects, spot highlights for visual impact, or protection for underlying inks against solvent, abrasion, and weather challenges.

Inks for Soft Tube

Fluorescent Inks

NuviINK Water-based Ink Series

The NuviINK water-based inks series can be divided into dye-based inks and pigment-based inks.

For semi-coated and coated Paper

KD-CP dye based ink series has good adhesion, fast drying, as well as satisfactory spreading on semi-coated and coated paper.

For applications requires water-repellent, KPAC-SPHD pigment based inks will definitely satisfy the needs. It provides vibrant colors, dries fast, has excellent jetting performance at high speed single pass printing, while good spreading on coated paper.

For porous or non-coated paper stocks

We provide both dye based and pigment based ink solutions for porous paper, as well as super absorbent material like napkin.

Direct-to-Garment (DTG) Inks

DTG Inks is water-based pigment ink designed to print directly on cotton garment. It formulated for medium drop size print head like Ricoh. Different pretreatment are developed for different type of garment to achieve great adhesion and washing resistant.

For Corrugated Box

NuviINK LPAC-PKHY water-based inks are developed to satisfy the requirement of corrugated box printing. It is designed to stay on top of the substrate instead of being fully absorbed by carton to give good printing quality and vibrant color. It is water-resistant and it dries fast to keep up with the high printing speed.

UV blocking pigment ink for CTS (Computer to screen)

Water-based UV Blocking Pigment Ink is specifically developed for CTS (computer to screen) imaging printer and for the process of printing on screens. It is tuned to have high density so as to efficiently block UV light from curing emulsion under the ink.

Please contact Amica Systems for more other ink information or customizing your inks.

Compliances

Product safety is a paramount concern at Amica. Each year, NuviINKs undergo rigorous testing and evaluation by accredited companies such as SGS and Qima. All Amica inks are California Proposition 65 compliant, confirming they are free of heavy metals, BPA, and within the limits for VOCs. Additionally, we provide a comprehensive array of product information to ensure customer remain fully informed and compliant with regulations such as REACH, RoHS, VOCs, LATEX, and others.