Sericol's tactile touch

The purpose of the albumteam Sericol says is to show the myriad possibilities which can be done by creative printers with Sericol's technical support and products

The Fujifilm Sericol factory, located 30 kms from Pune at Sanaswad can produce range of solvent-based screen, digital, flexo and offset inks. The interesting innovation of screen inks documented by Sericol is for everyone to see

The bead print effect is achieved by printing CMYK colour by a single stroke and PVC beads placed manually on the wet film and cured

This discharge print, which has a velvety effect is created by printing four colour with a single stroke and cured at 160 degree celcius for three minutes

Texopaque classic OP plastisol high density paste is used to create a raised effect. This effect is achieved by three stroke printing and cured. This process is repeated five time

The image shows a high density glitter print. The high density inks used here is screen printed for five times. Finally, glitter is printed onto the print and cured

This image shows the glitter print effects on denim. A mixture of Texiscreen aqua AJ382 metallic ink medium plus metallic glitter powder in the ratio of 95:5 is prepared to achieve this effect

3D effect on the textile can be achieved too with these inks

This is not a denim fabric, but the exact look and feel of denim can be achieved by screen printing the inks on any frabric desired

Sublimation transfer ink Ink system: Subliscreen Aqua HQ Printing process: Achieved by printing each of the four Subliscreen Aqua color on a 135 gsm coated paper transfer substrate and air dried

The multi-colour high density print is achieved by printing eight-colour ink paste each by three strokes and flash cure

Printing process: Colour printed by three strokes and flashed cured. Then overprinted with foil adhesive. Finally multi-coloued foil is placed on top and fused at 120 degree celcius

The high density raised print effect achieved by three colours printed onto the textile with Sericol's ink

Tone to tone puff print effect can be seen n the picture. Print process: Printed by wet on wet method and flash cured the ink. After which the puff mixture is printed and cured at 140 degree celcius

Plastisol plus caviar bead effect can be seen in the image The image has six colours and is printed onto the substrate after which the beads are pasted onto the ink and cured

The metallic print plus the glitter created can be seen in the image

Cold peel plastisol print effect uses nine colours Printing process: Multitran XM452 colour is printed on transfer paper and heat set at 90-110 degree celcius for 15 seconds. The cycle is repeated for all the colours

The image is created by litho transfer print. Ink system: Multitran XM011 litho backup white plastisol plus CMYK offset inks

Plastisol phosphorescent effect print is created with seven-colour with texaopaque classic OP plastisol

The image shown is created by a PVC-free phthalate free plastisol print. Number of colours: seven Ink system: Texopaque pioneer OK

Plastisol halftone print achieved by CMYK colours Print process: Print wet on wet CMYK colours and then cure the print at 140 degree celcius for three minutes

Plastisol plus lock print Print process: After the three base colour is printed, black flock powder is applied in a flocking machine. Past which print is cured

The foil effect is achieved by water-based Texiscreen aqua ink, After which a Metatran foil adhesive is printed and cured onto which foil paper is placed and fused

The effect is achieved by using Texiscreen aqua water-based ink - halftone print

The image shows plastisol transfer print with six colour. Ink system: Texopaque classic OP plastisol and Multitran XM452 clear adhesive

Five-colour plastisol index print Print process: Print FW755 flash cure white and flash cure. Then print wet on wet four colours and flash cure. Finally cure or

Fujifilm Sericol India saw impressive growth this year. (l-r) M N Subramanyam, mentor; P Raghava Rao, managing director; Ganesh Krishnan, executive director, marketing and Sunil Happa, executive director, finance