Permanent Yellow DHG
Pigment Yellow 12
Permanent Yellow DHG is a very opaque diarylide yellow pigment. It meets the requirements for the European Scale for Process printing. Permanent Yellow DHG is noted for excellent flow properties. Main application field is coldset offset printing ink (newspaper printing). Further application fields are other offset printing inks as well as water and solvent based packaging gravure and flexographic printing inks.
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Benefits
- Tinctorial strength and gloss
- High color strength
- Excellent flow properties
Technical data
Product Data
Physical Data
| Density | [g/cm³] | 1.39 |
| pH-value | – | |
| Specific surface | [m²/g] | 31 |
| Average particle size | [nm] | 100 |
| Fineness of grind | [µm] | – |
| Viscosity | [Pa·s] | – |
| Oil absorption | [ml/100g] | 96 |
Fastness Data
| Staining of the test medium by: | |||
| Test Medium | Powder pigment | Print / draw-down | Change of the print |
| Solvent mixture | 4-5 | 5 | 5 |
| Ethanol | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Ethyl acetate | 4 | 4-5 | 4-5 |
| MEK | 4 | 4-5 | 4-5 |
| Toluene | 3-4 | 4 | 4 |
| White spirit | 4-5 | 5 | 5 |
| DOP | 4-5 | 5 | – |
| Paraffine | 4 | 4-5 | – |
| Butter | – | 5 | – |
| Soap | – | 5 | 5 |
| Alkali | – | 5 | 5 |
| Acid | – | 5 | 5 |
| Heat stability | 10 min. | 200°C | |
| 30 min. | 180°C | ||
| Light fastness | 5.8% | 4 | |
| Light fastness | 10.0% | 5 | |
| Silver laquer | 5 | ||
| Sterilization | Water phase | Steam phase | |
| 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