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The Canadian conductive ink maker XINK Laboratories Ltd has launched a new line of 'InstaCure' silver and carbon conductive flexographic printing inks. These new polymeric formulations are aimed at manufacturers and converters producing RFID tagged smart packaging for use in supply chain and pharmaceutical counterfeit protection.
According to XINK, its InstaCure inks allow the printing of RFID antennas and complex electronic circuitry, including flexible paper sensors (for package security), sensor grids (for pharmaceutical packaging monitors), keypads (for disposable electronic paper diaries) and backplane components (for flexible displays).
The company's existing formulations included a solvent-free, high-conductive silver ink and a tuneable resistor ink, both being able to be applied in a single pass on standard printing presses, not requiring heat curing, and being printable on a variety of heat-seal paper boards as used in pharmaceutical packaging.
All the inks can also be printed on other flexible substrates that would not be able to withstand high temperature heat curing. Moreover, the company's water-based inks also allow the manufacturing of printed antennas directly on most standard paper and label stock in a normal print-shop environment.
"We are currently working on pilot printing projects with development teams around the world in the printing, packaging, ink, press, and RFID industries to offer sampling of these inks, with industrial production scheduled to begin in early 2005," commented Dan Tonchev, Ph.D., XINK Laboratories' chief scientist.
Source: XINK Laboratories Ltd
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