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Project Report
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Ink Saving

Department of Printing and Packaging Technology

Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh

Submitted to: Submitted by:

Mr. Hardeep Singh Abhishek
Astt. Production Manager 11606
Edelmann, Baddi B.Tech (PPT)
The Edelman, Group, a family business since 1913, designs and produces high-quality
packaging solutions for the health care, beauty care and consumer brands sectors. Our
solutions enable our customers to optimize their processes across the entire supply
chain. For you this means genuine added value.

We consider every aspect of every job. And we have enormous technical know-how and
huge experience to fall back on in fulfilling the often very complex demands. However,
it’s at least as important to us that we approach things differently each time, that we are
creative and that we think outside the box.

At the Edelman, Group we use only the latest methods, technologies and production
machines, of course – as well as constantly aligning everything we do with sustainability
and economic viability. This is how we are actively helping to shape our future today.

We have more than 3,000 employees around the world – our team – who play an
enormous role here. They form a motivated team with great agility and passion that can
depend on each other and work together to produce reliable packaging solutions and
offer extraordinary service.

All of that together results in our packaging experience, which is unique in the industry.
Our team has internalized the philosophy behind it all. They live it every day, in every
project. And have done so for more than 100 years as a family-run business. Our
customers, too, can see, feel and literally grasp it: when the product exceeds even their
expectations.

We are active around the world; huge distances, different time zones and cultural
diversity are part of our everyday working lives in these times of digitalization and
globalization.

The Edelman Group has customers has customers all over the world so that we can
guarantee that their products will be available globally with no limitations, we operate at
different locations- from the USA, Mexico and Brazil to Germany, France etc. and on to
India to china. Each one of our locations manufacturers, our products in accordance
with the “High Q Packaging” quality standard- no compromises, no ifs and no buts.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Myself, Abhishek student of B.Tech “Printing and
Packaging Technology” (IVthYr) under School of
Engineering and Technology of Central University of
Haryana in the session, 2017-2021. I feel highly obliged
for getting training in Edelmann Packaging Ltd, India and
after you provided me the chance for the training in Feb-
June, 2021. I am performing my training on the Project
“Ink Saving”.
INK
Ink is a gel, sol, or solution that contains at least one colorant, such as a dye or
pigments, and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is
used for drawing or writing with a pen, brush, reed pen. Thicker inks, in paste form, are
used extensively in letterpress and lithographic printing.
Inks generally fall into four classes:
 Aqueous
 Liquid
 Paste
 Powder

Ink involves two components:

 Colorants(Pigments, Dyes)
 Vehicle

Color Measurement CIE LAB (L*a*b*)

It is a color space which defines the color present in the object in the 3D form without
need of the color wheel.
It is a color space defined by the International Commission on Illumination in 1976 in the
form of L*a*b* where,
L*for perceptual lightness
A*&B*for four unique colors; Red, Green, Blue and Yellow

Pantone Color; is a special color formed on the demand of color in the job.
Some Pantone colors;
2823LP217-U
T. White-8.02kg L*=80.17 &L**=80.70 L 2-L1=-0.53
Rhodamine Red-1.032kg a*=27.56 &a**=26.23 a 2-a1=1.33
Warm Red-510gm b*=-0.41 &b**=0.58 b 2-b1=-0.99

Yellow-530gm E=1.01
847DP261-U
Violet=1.17kg L*=38.79 &L**=39.29 L 2-L1=-0.50
Black=424gm a*=54.60 &a**=1.35 a 2-a1=1.35
Pink=4.120kg b*=0.40 &b**=-0.03 b 2-b1=-0.37

Magenta=2.2kg E=0.98

3223LG871-U
White=1.2kg L*=44.64 &L**=45.08 L 2-L1=0.44
Yellow=1.430kg a*=4.60 &b**=4.56 a 2-a1=0.11
Magenta=320gm b*=18.00 &b**=18.72 b 2-b1=0.72

E=0.88

Ink Saving
1. Dot Gain: The preparation of image files must account for the type of substrate
being used and ink to compensate for dot gain, which is more on porous
substrates. Dot gain is the spread of the ink in the halftone dots as the ink is
absorbed.

Colors Dot Gain Specifications

25% 50% 75%

Cyan 9.3% ±2% 14.3% ±4% 12.3% ±2%

Magenta 9.3% ±2% 14.3% ±4% 12.3% ±2%

Yellow 9.3% ±2% 14.3% ±4% 12.3% ±2%

Black 9.3 – 12.1% ±2% 14.3 - 17% ±4% 12.3-13.4% ±2%

2. Grey Component Replacement: When printing four-color (CMYK) projects,
ink consumption can be drastically reduced. Rather than creating gray tones with
cyan, magenta and yellow inks, the black ink in CMYK can often achieve the
same result.

3. Ink Accuracy Software: Use the latest Ink Formulation software in printing
such as Ink formulation software of X-Write and Techkon.
https://www.xrite.com/categories/formulation-and-quality-assurance-software/
inkformulation-software

4. Choose the Right Printing Resolution: Only use the resolution necessary to
achieve the quality for the customer.

5. Eco-fonts: Use the fonts that help in reducing ink consumption, a client may
require specific type faces to maintain brand identity.

6. Bleed Through: The negative effect of dot gain on image quality, too much ink
on the substrate can result in bleed through. In the case of thin, porous
substrates, printing with too much ink can impact the reverse side of the printing
material when the ink is absorbed.

7. Store ink in properly sealed and labeled containers. Place plastic or waxed paper
with anti-skinning agent to prevent skinning and oxidation.

8. Use Vegetable oil-based inks. Soy oils do have a lower VOC content than
petroleum oils. Soy inks have higher Ink mileage.

9. Proper Ink handling methods encourage workers for properly closing or opening
of ink container while adding or removing ink.

10. Place ink in air tight containers as it remains open for a long time period which
reduces its quantity & increases ink wastage.

11. Use accuracy of ink while manufacturing of Pantone color.

12. Less Ink Optimizes Quality; using less ink through optimization can improve
printing results.

13. Make 10gm of every Pantone ink in starting, and then make full quantity of the
ink.
14. Use remaining pantone ink in the manufacturing of the new pantone ink if that ink
is useful.