An operating range of temperatures for coated by lacquer Top Coat printout is from −40°C
  to +60°C. The lacquer Top Coat should be store in cool dry place in encapsulated containers
  (not below +5°C)

Firm Prim Jet Color

closely co-operates with the Customers

for the purpose of the adaptation of lacquer composition

to the Customers individual demands and the needs

  Flag protection against environmental pollutants,
  harmful weather conditions and UV radiation

  Any kind of printouts on stone protection
  against scratches, harmful weather conditions
  and UV radiation

  Printouts on stone and stone panels prote-
  ction against alga, mushroom, harmful weather
  conditions and UV radiation

  A beer mat protection against scratches, des-
  tructive fluids influence and UV radiation

  Painting, photo, image protection against
  whitening, scratches, moisture and UV radiation

  Important documents protection against
  whitening, scratches, moisture and UV radiation

  Any kind of printouts on wood protection
  against scratches, harmful weather conditions
  and UV radiation

  Any kind of printouts on aluminum prote-
  ction against scratches, harmful weather condi-
  tions and UV radiation

  Siding (facade) protection against scratches,
  harmful weather conditions and UV radiation

 Lacquer Top Coat  is applied by using com-
 pressed air (by paint-gun) or by a roller for
 dense acrylic lacquer

 After drying, during 72 hours lacquer film
 on printout attains the best protective para-
 meters

Product Description

Characteristics

• Lacquer Top Coat  is prepared on the basis of water acrylic dispersion. The lacquer is water-soluble and after drying-time becomes waterproof.

• It creates a thin very elastic/flexible homogeneous, smooth matt, satin or gloss layer on the printout.

• The lacquer was designed using latest technologies, to obtain perfect resistance of coated by lacquer printouts against UV radiation, large temperature fluctuations, wind, a sand in the air carried by wind, fog, salt, 5% of the hydrochloric acid HCl and 5% sulfuric acid H₂SO₄, 40% ethyl alcohol and nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere, respectively.

Technical data

• Drying time is out about 30 minutes in the temperature 20ºC (depending on the kind of coated surface), on the free air.
  
  This time is long enough, that on a coated by lacquer flexible wide format printout, rising during the drying process lacquer film receives the shape of printout basis and undergoes such deformations as basis. Thanks to this feature do not appear the cracks, bulge or other faults connected with the maladjustment created coatings with printout basis (media).
  
  Entire time of polymerization carries out 72 hours and after this time the product has full protecting properties.

• Tests proved that the lacquer Top Coat increases resistance to UV radiation inkjet ink printouts about 18 months up to 5 years (depending on the kind of lacquer). It also protects printouts against mechanical damages.

• Lacquer Top Coat widens gamut of colors of the printout, which seems to be more expressive and sharp.

• Lacquer Top Coat does not alter color (it does not become yellow).

Remarks

• Lacquer Top Coat should be protect against low temperature.

• We recommend putting the lacquer on using compressed air (by paint-gun), by laminator or by a roller for dense acrylic lacquer.

• Up to now, how it follows from carried out tests, it is possible to cover by lacquer Top Coat printouts made using each kind of ink and on each kind of surface. However user ought to carry out checking tests just to be sure.

Health and safety

• Lacquer Top Coat is odorless

Natural environment

• Lacquer Top Coat fulfills all ecological requirements (in accordance with the appropriate using)

Storage

• Lacquer Top Coat ought to be kept in the cool dry place (not under +5ºC) in the hermetically closed containers. Avoid lacquer from direct sun exposition.

Comparison of UV resistance of two plotter printouts made using water-based pigmented ink on a Blue Back paper exposed outdoor together during 6 month in Tunisia (tests was carried out by firm WELLCOM, wellcom@topnet.tn). Upper printout was covered by Improved lacquer Top Coat.  Colors on unprotected by lacquer printout faded. Black color lost about 12 % of intensity, red color – about 30% and yellow color- about 50%, respectively.
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    Lacquer Top Coat is produced in three versions: matt, satin and gloss. Softer version – satin, is better for example to cover flags, but gloss version has better mechanical scratch resistance.

    Moreover lacquer Top Coat is also produced in the version making impossible migration of plasticizers from the depth of the media, on which printout was made, to its surface. This migration process usually manifests as wet, sticking itself surface of printout, particularly when it was made on a cheap PVC media.

   A good solution appears to be printing using dye water-based ink and then protection of printout by lacquer Top Coat.

   It is worth to turn attention on the fact, that the cost of coating printout by lacquer Top Coat is about 1 € ($ 1.4) for square meter, while using cheapest lamination film, it is a great deal more. Moreover surface protected by lacquer Top Coat has higher technical resistance parameters, than this coated by lamination film during the lamination process.

    Lacquer Top Coat can be applied in hard to access places, for example on printouts made on a body of a big motor track.

Product Description

Application

• Lacquer Pre-Coat No. 1: prepares media for solvent inkjet ink printing on stone, wood, metal, paper, glass, PVC, ceramics.

• Lacquer Pre-Coat No. 2:  prepares base for sublimable transfer on a cotton and other natural fibers (silk, flax, wool).

• Lacquer Pre-Coat No. 3: prepares media for direct printing or for sublimable transfer on flexible media e.g. flags.

• Lacquer Pre-Coat No. 4: prepares base for sublimable transfer on metal, ceramics, stone, wood, glass, paper, PVC etc.

Characteristics

• Lacquer Pre-Coat  is prepared on the basis of water acrylic dispersion.

• Lacquer Pre-Coat contains additional nano-components increasing printouts resistance to the UV radiation.

Technical data

• Drying time is out about 30 minutes in the temperature 20ºC (depending on the kind of coated surface), on the free air.

• Lacquer on ceramics (Pre-Coat No. 4 ) is made out from 100 parts of sublimable lacquer (white color) and 25 parts of lacquer in bronze color (hardener), for example 100 ml lacquer + 25 ml hardener, and after mixing lacquer is ready to cover flat surface under printout. After drying of coated surface it is necessary to wait 24 hours, in order to obtain the best parameters of the coated layer (for sublimable transfer).

• Lacquer on metal (Pre-Coat No. 4 ) is made out from 100 parts of sublimable lacquer (white color) and 26 parts of lacquer in bronze color (hardener).

Remarks

• Lacquer Pre-Coat should be protect against low temperature.

• We recommend putting the lacquer on using compressed air (by paint-gun), by laminator or by a roller for dense acrylic lacquer.

• Some customers warm coated objects for about 6 minutes in the tempe-rature from the interval 180ºC - 200ºC. It is necessary to test this pro-cedure, to obtain expected effect using a specific kind of paper to the sublimable transfer, a specific press and SPECIFIC CERAMICS or other media.

Health and safety

• Lacquer Pre-Coat is odorless.

Natural environment

• Lacquer Pre-Coat fulfills all ecological requirements (in accordance with the appropriate using).

Storage

• Lacquer Pre-Coat ought to be kept in the cool dry place (not under +5ºC) in the hermetically closed containers. Avoid lacquer from direct sun exposition.

    Lacquer Pre-Coat No.2, which prepares cotton fabrics and other natural fibers to receive the sublimable transfer, ought to completely cover suitable surfaces under printout.

   Usually surface for sublimable transfer is coated by lacquer Pre-Coat No.2 using a sieve to serigraphy (this way gives most steady layer), by a roller for dense acrylic lacquer or with help of a paint-gun.

   Correctly impregnated surface ought to dry. It is possible to dry it faster using hairdryer or placing fabric under press warmed to about 160ºC. Distance from heat source ought to be about 3 cm. We suggest to carry out own tests of the technology of the sublimable transfer.

  Usually the temperature of sublimable transfer ought to be about 170ºC and transfer ought to go on about 30 seconds.

On the drawing are presented transmittance curves of various UV-blockers (ZnO) versus light wavelength. In comparison with other products nano-powder used in lacquer Top Coat perfectly absorb harmful UV radiation in the range from 200 – to 370 nm, however visible light (400 – 800 nm) is transmitted without important loss of intensity. Thanks to this feature printout coated by lacquer Top Coat is not whitening.

In the above is presented schematic explanation of the mechanism of whitening of printouts, when in lacquer is applied inadequate UV-blocker based on the zinc oxide ZnO. Diffusion scattering of visible light of the large ZnO particles causes whitening of printout, and also UV radiation is not sufficiently blocked. In contrast to this the printout coated by lacquer Top Coat shows the printout is not whitened, because the nanoparticles of ZnO do not cause significant diffuse scattering  of light moreover UV radiation is perfectly blocked.

The quality of blocking the UV radiation by nano-ZnO molecules proves the plot of transparency as a function of wavelengths. Nano-blocker applied in lacquer Top Coat is characterized by the real broad band of the absorption both of radiance UV B and UV A

The influence of UV radiation on wood coated by water-soluble lacquer without and with UV-blocker (on the basis of zinc oxide powder). After 1500 hours of QUV exposure (UVA) it is easy to see a big difference between protected by zinc oxide surface and not protected one.