Hansa Brilliant Yellow 4GX for Printing
Pigment Yellow 73
Hansa Brilliant Yellow 4GX is a green shade monoazo pigment. The shade is similar to Pigment Yellow 1 but with higher transparency and good light- and weather fastness properties. Recommended for paste inks as well as for solvent- and water based packaging gravure and flexographic printing inks.
Customer Support
How can we help you?
Benefits
- High transparency
- Good light- and weather fastness properties
Technical data
Product Data
Physical Data
| Density | [g/cm3] | 1.48 |
| pH-value | – | |
| Specific surface | [m2/g] | 21 |
| Average particle size | [nm] | 200 |
| Fineness of grind | [µm] | – |
| Viscosity | [Pa.s] | – |
| Oil absorption | [ml/100g] | 59 |
Fastness properties
| Staining of the test medium by: | |||
| Test medium | Powder pigment | Print / draw-down | Change of the print |
| Solvent mixture | 3-4 | 4-5 | 5 |
| Ethanol | 4 | 4-5 | 5 |
| Ethyl acetate | 3 | 3-4 | 2 |
| MEK | 3 | 3-4 | 1 |
| Toluene | 3 | 3-4 | 1 |
| White spirit | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| DOP | 4-5 | 5 | – |
| Paraffine | 4-5 | 5 | – |
| Butter | – | 4 | – |
| Soap | – | 5 | 5 |
| Alkali | – | 5 | 5 |
| Acid | – | 5 | 5 |
| Heat stability | 10 min. | <140°C | |
| 30 min. | <140°C | ||
| Light fastness | 1/3 SD | 8.1 % | 5 |
| Light fastness | 10.0% | 5 | |
| Silver laquer | 4 | ||
| Sterilization | Water phase | Steam phase | |
| 4 | 4 | ||
Applications
Recommended for
Paste inks
| Sheetfed | ■ |
| Heatset | – |
| Coldset | – |
| Silkscreen | ● |
| Metal deco | – |
| UV curing (Offset) | – |
Liquid inks
| NC alcohol | ● |
| NC acetate | ○ |
| Waterbased | ■ |
| Polyvinyl butyral | – |
| Polyamide | ○ |
| Pub gravure, Toluene | – |
| Decorative laminates | – |
| UV curring (Flexo) | – |
■ highly recommended
● recommended
○ limited suitability
– not tested