Hostaperm Yellow H4G for Printing
Pigment Yellow 151
Hostaperm Yellow H4G is a green shade, very opaque benzimidazolone pigment with excellent light, weather and solvent fastness properties as well as high heat stability. Recommended for paste inks as well as for solvent- and water based packaging gravure and flexographic printing inks.

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Benefits
- Excellent light, weather and solvent fastness properties
- High heat stability
Technical data
Product Data
Physical Data
| Density | [g/cm3] | 1.55 |
| pH-value | – | |
| Specific surface | [m2/g] | 23 |
| Average particle size | [nm] | 215 |
| Fineness of grind | [µm] | – |
| Viscosity | [Pa.s] | – |
| Oil absorption | [ml/100g] | 48 |
Fastness properties
| Staining of the test medium by: | |||
| Test medium | Powder pigment | Print / draw-down | Change of the print |
| Solvent mixture | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Ethanol | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Ethyl acetate | 5 | 5 | 4-5 |
| MEK | 5 | 4-5 | 3-4 |
| Toluene | 5 | 5 | 4-5 |
| White spirit | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| DOP | 5 | 5 | – |
| Paraffine | 5 | 5 | – |
| Butter | – | 5 | – |
| Soap | – | 4-5 | 4-5 |
| Alkali | – | 4 | 3 |
| Acid | – | 5 | 5 |
| Heat stability | 10 min. | 200°C | |
| 30 min. | 180°C | ||
| Light fastness | 1/3 SD | 16.3 % | 6-7 |
| Light fastness | 10.0% | 6-7 | |
| Silver laquer | 5 | ||
| Sterilization | Water phase | Steam phase | |
| 3 | 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
