Discovering a New World of Smart Inks & Coatings

Last update on May 11, 2017

Smart inks and coatings allow the product on which it is printed to communicate with the persons or system that is interacting with it. The use of smart inks is seen in:

Food packaging - To communicate the freshness of the contents
RFID labels - To transmit authentication information, and
Adaptive Color System - To change Color on a variety of products

According to a report from Nano-Markets, the global smart packaging market is already in excess of $14 billion.We suspect that the numbers are significantly higher than that given the ubiquitous nature of smart coatings in both the private and government sectors.

At Ink Intelligence, we design and formulate smart inks and coatings for:

Packaging
Electronics
Medical applications, and
The Department of Defense

So we see a number of current and future possibilities for smart inks as shown in the figure below:

Current and Future Possibilities for Smart Inks

The difference today is that in the past we have used inks to provide a purely visual function. But now we are making our inks 'work' by giving them other 'duties' in the pursuit of adding more value to each particular situation and environment.

Let's understand about functional inks and coatings deeply taking some case studies...

Case Studies of Functional Inks and Coatings

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