It is a drupa year and Marabu will be showcasing its digital range, including textile transfer printing, new Plug&Print inkjet inks as well as UV direct printing onto glass. When it comes to product safety its screen and pad printing inks provide new solutions.
In hall 3, booth A87, the ink manufacturer will be showing its new Plug & Print inkjet ink for ECO-SOL MAX 3, a concept for digital textile transfer printing, and the variety of UV direct printing onto glass. In terms of product safety and printing inks, Marabu provides new solutions for screen and pad printing. By partnering with Screen Marabu presents the wide format UV printing system Truepress Jet W3200UV in its portfolio for the first time.
New Plug&Print alternative for Eco-Sol Max 3.
For graphical digital printing applications Marabu will be showcasing the solvent-based Mara Jet DI-SX Plug&Print inkjet ink suitable for the latest generation of Roland printers. Including the new 500ml cartridges as the economical alternative for Eco-Sol Max 3.
The 440ml cartridges provide a chip for Eco-Sol Max 2. Both containers deliver perfectly adjusted colour shades for good Plug & Print compatibility, changeover without profiling, excellent scratch and chemical resistance. The health-friendly ink system provides a nickel-free yellow, light black and shiny metallic shades. Thanks to fast production speeds, the DI-SX is especially suited for roll-to-roll prints.
„Cold Peel“ – Digital textile transfer printing
In cooperation with Mutoh, Marabu will be presenting its new digital concept for “cold peel” textile transfer printing onto T-shirts. One plus in comparison to sublimation printing is the wide variety of fabrics which can be printed.
With the new pigmented resin Texa Jet ink, Marabu combines the advantages of current transfer printing technologies in one application: The design is printed in CMYK colour mode directly onto the foil without a time-consuming pre-press process.
Only the white barrier layer is applied using screen printing. The small layer thickness of the final patches allows a soft look and feel, thus increasing the wearing comfort of the printed T-shirts.
In this time and effort saving process low and medium size orders can be produced with excellent resistance in high definition and bright colours. The digital textile transfer concept will be shown on a Mutoh ValueJet 628 live at the Marabu booth. The final patches will be transferred via a heat press.
Sensitive products meet extraordinary solutions
Toys, baby products, or medical equipment are sensitive products which have to fulfil strict requirements to guarantee the safety of consumers’ health and wellbeing. It must be guaranteed that neither the substrate itself nor the printing ink contain harmful substances. Marabu provides various possible solutions: In addition to the pad printing inks Tampa Tex TPX and Tampa Plus TPL, Marabu has developed new water-based spray inks and paints which meet precisely these specific requirements of sensitive products. They are compliant to EN71-3 as well as PAH- and BPA/BPS-free. 
At the same time, they offer good resistances and are suited for a wide range of applications.
