Permanent Rubine F6B
Pigment Red 184
Permanent Rubine F6B is a blue shade, semi-transparent Naphthol AS pigment. It meets the requirements for the European Scale for Process printing. It exhibits good allround fastness properties and is an alternative for Pigment Red 57:1 pigments, if their fastness properties are not good enough. Recommended for paste inks as well as for solvent- and water based packaging gravure and flexographic printing inks.
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Benefits
- Tinctorial strength and gloss
- High colour strength
- Good allround fastness properties
Technical data
Product Data
Physical Data
| Density | [g/cm³] | 1.40 |
| pH-value | – | |
| Specific surface | [m²/g] | 44 |
| Average particle size | [nm] | 110 |
| Fineness of grind | [µm] | – |
| Viscosity | [Pa·s] | – |
| Oil absorption | [ml/100g] | 70 |
Fastness Data
| Staining of the test medium by: | |||
| Test Medium | Powder pigment | Print / draw-down | Change of the print |
| Solvent mixture | 4 | – | – |
| Ethanol | 4 | – | – |
| Ethyl acetate | 4 | – | – |
| MEK | 3-4 | – | – |
| Toluene | 4 | – | – |
| White spirit | 4-5 | – | – |
| DOP | 4-5 | – | – |
| Paraffine | 4-5 | 5 | – |
| Butter | – | 5 | – |
| Soap | – | 5 | |
| Alkali | – | 5 | 5 |
| Acid | – | 5 | 5 |
| Heat stability | 10 min. | 180°C | |
| 30 min. | 180°C | ||
| Light fastness | 5.0% | 3-4 | |
| Light fastness | 10.0% | 4 | |
| Silver laquer | – | ||
| Sterilization | Water phase | Steam phase | |
| – | – |
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