In the green environmental protection has become the theme of the printing industry today, if you can make the necessary material printing ink green, green printing on a big step forward. Although the development and use of environmentally friendly ink has been more and more attention by ink enterprises and printing enterprises, but in the process of the promotion of environmental protection ink there are still some problems to be solved. Reporter related to the topic of the interview industry experts found that lie in the path of the development of green ink, the biggest problem is the cost high, while only realize win-win of environmental and economic benefits, is the way of development of environmental printing ink and printing. 

Environmental printing ink penetration needs to be improved 

"Sanlu milk powder" incident in the cause of China's dairy industry has caused great losses at the same time, but also make us more industry on the importance of green environmental protection has a more clear understanding." Beijing green enterprise culture development center director Wu Ming in an interview with reporters, said that the development of environmental protection ink urgency. He said that the gravure printing ink is mainly used for packaging, including food packaging is most prone to harm human health problems. For example, some of the packaging of milk in the process of cooking and heating, the printing ink on the packaging of benzene will penetrate into the milk from the gap, which is very detrimental to the health of consumers. While the offset printing ink is mainly used for publication printing, then, the printing ink in the printing ink content is high, it will cause the reader, especially the immune system is weak. 

Printing enterprises overall situation the use of environmentally friendly ink, China Printing Technology Association Secretary General Zhang Shuangru said to reporters, the use of environmentally friendly inks are mainly in the following 3 situations, one is according to the different requirements of the product packaging, some food and drug packaging printing enterprises have to use environmental friendly ink; the second is the number of book printing enterprises have consciously using environmentally friendly ink, while environmental ink costs will be relatively high, but they realize that it is conducive to long-term development of the enterprise; the third is in government procurement, the state provisions of the relevant units should give priority to the purchase of environmentally friendly products, so some printing enterprises to undertake the government procurement task requires the use of environmentally friendly ink. 

At present, although the environmental awareness of printing enterprises is gradually improving, but environmental protection ink in the printing industry has not been popularized. In addition, our country although on February 3, 2008 began the implementation of the first batch of two national environmental protection ink standard (i.e., offset printing ink and gravure and flexo ink standard), but these two standards within the scope of the printing enterprises did not widely spread, the main reason is that environmental protection ink costs are too high. "Even if the production of environmentally friendly ink, but the printing factory can not afford to buy, how to promote it?" Wu Ming reluctantly said. 

Cost become persistent" 

Non benzene ink can not only reduce the harm to the health of consumers, but also reduce the adverse effects on the body of printing workers, which is the direction of the development of environmental protection ink. 

It is understood, many years ago, no environmental benzene ink in the EU has been produced and has been widespread, but they are in the promotion of our country is more difficult, because the environmental protection printing ink prices are ordinary ink 10 times to 20 times. Wu Ming said that in the process of environmental protection printing ink, the manufacture of benzene substitutes is not difficult to solve the technical problems, hinder the development of environmentally friendly ink is the biggest problem of its high product prices. Especially after the outbreak of the international financial crisis, printing enterprise profits shrink further. If they in the use of environmentally friendly ink to increase investment, is bound to increase their burden, printing enterprises will have concerns. 

Therefore, if you want to make environmentally friendly ink in the market to be widely used, it is necessary to make environmentally friendly ink in promoting the development of environmental protection at the same time to reduce the burden of printing enterprises. He said: "to achieve the premise of ink environmental protection is the cost of the market, and the cost of the market is the premise of product quality. At the same time, only emphasizes the promotion of environmentally friendly ink and cannot reach the goal must take benefit of printing enterprises and national environmental protection request to combine only when environmental protection with economic significance, the cause of environmental protection in order to develop more smoothly. " 

Wu Ming thinks, to achieve environmental benefits and economic benefits of the win-win, with ethanol and water as the solvent of alcohol water-based ink is worth to advocate the use of a new generation of environmentally friendly ink. Reason lies in, the ink not only the full realization of the no benzene, ketone, greatly reducing the emissions of pollutants, but the key is that it is better to solve the cost problem, the price can also close to the traditional ordinary ink price level, even lower. For printing enterprises using the ink not only save the cost of solvents and emissions, reduce the printing on the health of workers hurt, but more important is adapted to the printing products and environmental protection requirements of market development, is conducive to the establishment of enterprise business development and brand protection. 

Green ink market development prospects 

Is the prospects for the development of environmental protection printing ink industry, Wu Ming said: "environmental protection ink market has broad prospects for development, printing enterprises are facing now the problem is not an option to use environmentally friendly products, but to use more environmentally friendly, more suitable for the selection of products. The promotion of environmental protection ink is only a matter of time and communication patterns."