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Acta graphica : journal for printing science and graphic communications, Vol. 30 No. 1, 2019.

Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.25027/agj2017.28.v30i1.208

Determining the optical stability of printed laboratory substrates with wheat pulp after ageing treatment

Irena Bates ; Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Katja Petric Maretić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-3133-229X ; Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivana Plazonić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-9721-6750 ; Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Valentina Radić Seleš ; Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Maja Rudolf orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-3959-952X ; Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

The use of recovered paper in the paper and board industry worldwide has increased in the last decade. The recycling process affects several properties of the paper, so recovered pulp needs to be enriched with a certain amount of virgin fibre to increase the strength and quality of the paper, and thus the quality of the print. Since the cellulose-based printing substrates are sensitive to photolytic damage caused by exposure to light and high temperature, the focus of the research was to evaluate the stability of digital UV inkjet prints on laboratory substrates with wheat pulp. Assessment of the optical stability of laboratory substrates and prints made on them after ageing treatment was based on the reflectance spectra measurements before and after artificial ageing. In order to observe the optical changes that occur in cellulose printing substrates, unprinted and digital printed substrates were placed in an artificial ageing equipment SunTEST XLS+ test chamber according to standard ASTM D 6789-02. The test chamber emits visible and near ultraviolet electromagnetic radiation in the range from 290 nm to 800 nm. With the deterioration of the optical stability of unprinted and digital printed substrates, it was observed through the reflectance spectra (R) and the Euclidean colour difference (ΔE00*) that the highest colour degradation of all analyzed samples, occurs in the first 48 hours of artificial ageing. The results of this analysis confirm that the addition of wheat pulp in paper pulp provides better optical stability of unprinted and digital printed laboratory substrates.

Keywords

artificial ageing, digital printing, optical stability, wheat pulp

Hrčak ID:

255384

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/255384

Publication date:

7.4.2021.

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