Hostaperm Yellow H3G for Printing
Pigment Yellow 154
Hostaperm Yellow H3G is a mid shade benzimidazolone pigment with excellent light, weather and solvent fastness properties as well as high heat stability. Recommended for high performance offset and tin printing inks as well as for water based packaging gravure and flexographic printing inks.
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Benefits
- Outstanding fastness to light and weathering
- Excellent light, weather and solvent fastness properties
- High heat stability
Technical data
Product Data
Physical Data
| Density | [g/cm3] | 1.59 |
| pH-value | – | |
| Specific surface | [m2/g] | 19 |
| Average particle size | [nm] | 275 |
| Fineness of grind | [µm] | – |
| Viscosity | [Pa.s] | – |
| Oil absorption | [ml/100g] | 56 |
Fastness properties
| Staining of the test medium by: | |||
| Test medium | Powder pigment | Print / draw-down | Change of the print |
| Solvent mixture | 4-5 | 5 | 5 |
| Ethanol | 4-5 | 5 | 5 |
| Ethyl acetate | 4-5 | 5 | 4-5 |
| MEK | 4-5 | 4-5 | 3-4 |
| Toluene | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| White spirit | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| DOP | 5 | 5 | – |
| Paraffine | 5 | 5 | – |
| Butter | – | 5 | – |
| Soap | – | 5 | 5 |
| Alkali | – | 4-5 | 5 |
| Acid | – | 5 | 5 |
| Heat stability | 10 min. | 200°C | |
| 30 min. | 180°C | ||
| Light fastness | 1/3 SD | 25.0 % | 7 |
| Light fastness | 10.0% | 7 | |
| Silver laquer | 5 | ||
| Sterilization | Water phase | Steam phase | |
| 4-5 | 5 | ||
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