After buying a digital UV inkjet printer, one unavoidable thing is the use and continuous purchase of printing ink. Many users have found that UV printing ink is a little expensive, especially the ink from the original UV printer manufacturer. Therefore, many users choose to buy cheaper ink from another channel.

As a UV printing equipment producer, we have to admit that this is common in the whole market, including some of our customers. Even so, I think it needs to make some explanation.

On the one hand, the development of printing ink needs a lot of time and money. Our requirement for ink is not only vivid color, but also a variety of other features, for instance, the shelf life, the stability of storage, the size of ink particles, the degree of corrosion of various printer head, color persistence under the sunlight, etc. Without huge initial investment, all of these are not possible.

On the other hand, we have to test the printing ink to fit our inkjet UV printer. Before deciding what kind of UV printing ink we will use, we have done many tests again and again to find out the best for our printers, so as to deliver the best color reproduction and best printing quality. Besides, as I mention above, the impact on printer head is another important thing.

So, about where to buy UV printing ink, we still recommend that users should buy ink from the company that they bought the machine from. The proposal is not only for our customers, but also for other companies’ customers.

In many cases, it is a gradual process. Maybe you seem to have found a cheap and good UV printing ink, but in fact this good ink is corroding or clogging your more expensive printer head. In addition to this, there is another thing that needs attention, once third-party printing ink is used, the warranty scope promised by manufacturer will also change.