Standard Test Method for Volatile Content of Sheet-Fed and Coldset Web Offset Printing Inks

Importancia y uso:

4.1 This test method is the procedure of choice for determining volatile content of sheet-fed and coldset web offset inks. This information is useful to the ink manufacturer and user and to environmental interests as part of the determination of the mass of volatile organic compounds emitted from the ink.

Note 3: Since these inks do not contain water or any materials currently classified by US EPA as negligibly photochemically reactive (exempt solvents), volatile organic compound content is the same as volatile content. The volatile organic compounds in these inks are high boiling hydrocarbon oils which are, according to US EPA guidelines, 95 % retained in the printed substrate or oxidized into the ink film. Therefore, the mass of volatile organic compound emitted from the ink would be calculated as only 5 % of the volatile organic compound content of the ink as derived from the results of this test method.

Subcomité:

D01.56

Referida por:

D7805-13R21, D2369-24, D3960-05R18

Volúmen:

06.02

Número ICS:

59.080.01 (Textiles in general), 87.080 (Inks. Printing inks)

Palabras clave:

coldset web offset inks; coldset web offset ink vehicles; non-heatset web offset inks; non-heatset web offset vehicles; printing inks; printing ink vehicles; sheet-fed offset inks; sheet-fed offset ink vehicles; VOC in inks; volatile determination; volatiles;