2012

drupa 2012 pre-show information: About the digital ink exhibition

Announced: Apr. 27, 2012

Published: Apr. 27, 2012

Toyo Ink Co., Ltd.

Toyo Ink Co., Ltd. (President and Representative Director: Katsumi Yamazaki; Chuo-ku, Tokyo) will exhibit at the drupa 2012 print media messe (drupa 2012), which will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany, from May 3 through May 16. The company’s booth has several sections, one of which features digital inks. Printing demonstrations of the company’s inkjet inks will be conducted.

Information about exhibitions in the Digital Ink Area

Junichiro Ushiyama,
General Manager of Digital Materials & Systems Div.
Toyo Ink Co., Ltd.

drupa 2012 will take place in Düsseldorf from May 3, 2012. The previous drupa exhibition, held in 2008, was referred to as “Inkjet drupa” and gave many companies an opportunity to present their inkjet products. drupa 2012 is expected to be a different inkjet exhibition than the one in 2008, evolving from “presentations” to an “experience of practical usefulness.”
We develop digital ink products for POD by utilizing our many years of experience in inkjet inks in the signage industry and over a century of experience in printing inks. In the upcoming drupa, we will showcase inkjet inks that are unique to our company, which specializes in producing printing inks.
The name Toyo Ink will be discreetly brought to visitors’ attention. However, our inkjet inks will be used in demonstrations at numerous printer manufacturers’ booths.

Our booth will have a digital ink area. In cooperation with the Swiss company Graph-tech, this area will feature our inkjet printer, and six demonstrations will be performed every day. In these demonstrations, water-based inkjet ink will be used to print a single black color directly on offset paper (coated paper), which is commonly used in the offset printing industry.
The ink is characterized by the ease with which it can be printed directly on offset paper without anchoring or other pretreatment procedures. It is comparable to offset printing in terms of water resistance and resistance to rubbing. Aside from the sheets of paper used in the demonstrations, many other samples of printing on offset paper will be exhibited. After seeing these, you will be convinced that this ink can print on any type of material.
Our booth will also showcase many other types of ink. Our full-color water-based inkjet ink, intended for use in transaction printing and newspapers, is printable in high concentrations with a reduced likelihood of penetrating through to the back of the printed surface. Our full-color UV inkjet ink, developed for use in label printing, offers a wide range of color reproduction. The highly sensitive UV inkjet ink is intended for use in variable information printing (VIP) such as bar codes.

Color inkjet ink (printable directly on offset paper) and water-based inkjet ink (developed for the signage industry) will also be exhibited for reference.
Water-based inkjet ink for the signage industry is an eco-friendly product that is characteristic for facilitating direct printing on non-anchor-treated vinyl chloride sheets, which is the most distinctive feature. It is printable on indoor POP materials such as paper and nylon sheets for soft signage as well as banners, base materials for outdoor signs. This product can be recommended as a solution to widen customers’ areas of business activity.

In preparation for the expansion of digital printing, Toyo Ink develops products based on feedback from the market. The upcoming drupa exhibition will provide a glimpse of these efforts. We are looking forward to showing these products to many visitors.

About the Toyo Ink Group

Founded in 1907, the Toyo Ink Group is a global manufacturer of printing inks and chemical products. In April 2011, the Group brought in a holding company structure focused on Toyo Ink SC Holdings Co., Ltd. which is developing a worldwide business network around three core operating businesses, Toyo Ink Co., Ltd., Toyochem Co., Ltd. and Toyocolor Co., Ltd., with more than 7,000 employees in approximately 70 companies in 19 countries worldwide.
The Toyo Ink Group’s operations are split into four segments: “Printing and Information”, “Packaging Materials”, “Polymers and Coatings”, and “Colorants and Functional Materials” with the graphic arts business included in the “Printing and Information” and “Packaging Materials” business segments. Starting with the manufacturing and sales of printing inks, the operating activities at the Toyo Ink Group have expanded to the development and production of organic pigments and resins, which are the raw materials for ink, and are now expanding again from value-added inks for a range of printing applications to functional materials, natural materials and electronic materials. As of FY2008, the Company has set its sights on “the SCC2017 vision — evolving into a globally useful specialty chemical manufacturer”, which serves as the yardstick for the Group management.
In FY2010, total sales at the Group Company were 245.7 billion yen with an operating income of 19.2 billion yen. For details about the Toyo Ink Group, please refer to the website (schd.toyoinkgroup.com/en/ available in Japanese, English and simplified Chinese).

About Toyo Ink Co., Ltd.

Toyo Ink Co., Ltd. was established in April 2011 as one of the core operating companies as part of the Toyo Ink Group’s change to a holding company structure. The company carries the core of the Group’s “Printing and Information related business” and “Packaging Materials related business” segments and is the driving force behind the Group’s graphic arts companies in Japan and overseas. The company is headquartered in Tokyo and has a production facility in Kawagoe City in Saitama Prefecture. In addition to high quality, high value-added, environmentally friendly printing inks for every type of printing, the company provides tools and solutions for consumer safety and security including all types of peripheral materials, printing process standards support, assistance with energy saving, materials saving and environmental response, universal design and food sanitation management. Please refer to the Toyo Ink Co., Ltd. website (www.toyoink.jp: Japanese only) for more details.

[Inquiries]
Tomoyuki Takada / Masao Obata
Promotion Group, Corporate Planning Department
Toyo Ink Co., Ltd.
TEL +81-3-3272-5719

[Media- and publishing-related and other inquiries]
Takehiko Watanabe / Mayumi Mizutani
Corporate Communication Department
Toyo Ink SC Holdings Co., Ltd.
TEL +81-3-3272-5720

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Update: Apr. 27, 2012