How to Choose the Right Ink for Your Industrial Printer

Choosing the right ink is essential for stable, high-quality coding across modern industrial inkjet printers, handheld inkjet printers, batch coders, and date code printers. Ink selection affects adhesion, durability, curing speed, and printhead reliability—especially on fast production lines. Leading brands such as Domino and Meenjet provide reliable ink formulations suitable for a wide range of coding and marking applications.

1. Match Ink Chemistry to Printer Technology
Each printing system requires compatible ink:

• TIJ Inkjet Printers need water-based or solvent inks engineered for consistent viscosity, precise drop formation, and high-resolution marking.

• Continuous Inkjet Printers operate with fast-evaporating solvent inks that maintain conductivity and remain stable in 24/7 production.

• Portable inkjet printers, handheld inkjet printer guns, and devices using white pigment ink require anti-sedimentation formulations to prevent nozzle clogging and ensure clean codes.

Domino and Meenjet inks are optimized for these technologies, offering reliable performance across portable, inline, and automatic systems.

2. Match Ink to Surface Type

• Porous materials such as paper and cardboard work well with water-based inks used in desktop inkjet printers and inline inkjet printers.

• Non-porous substrates—plastic bags, films, cables, metals—require solvent inks used with batch coding machines, expiry date printers, and industrial inkjet printing machines.

• When ink adhesion is challenging, consider fiber laser, UV laser, or CO2 laser marking machines.

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3. Consider Durability Requirements
For expiry dates, batch numbers, and variable data, choose inks offering strong adhesion, abrasion resistance, and chemical/UV stability. Domino and Meenjet both provide industrial-grade inks designed for long-term readability.

4. Align Ink with Production Speed
High-speed lines using industrial continuous inkjet printers or high speed inkjet printers need ultra-fast drying inks. Manual devices like a hand jet printer or portable handheld printer can use general fast-dry inks without sacrificing clarity.

5. Ensure Compliance and Safety
Food, beverage, and pharmaceutical packaging require certified, low-migration inks. Domino and Meenjet supply compliant formulations widely used in global industrial marking systems.

Choosing the right ink ensures stable coding quality, minimizes downtime, and improves reliability across all inkjet marking systems—from portable devices to fully automatic production lines.