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 MANUFACTURING
TOUR - GRAPHIC DIGITAL OPERATIONS back
Graphic Digital manufactures
all of our products. Shopping for each ingredient that goes
into our product, paying meticulous attention to quality and
consistency, Graphic Digital is geared to be a top supplier
of digital inks to the retail and commerical printers. Our
manufacturing operation in Milwaulkie, Oregon is capable of
producing 220 gallons of high quality digital ink per day.
The in-house laboratory is utilized for QC of the production
batches as well as ongoing research and development into the
every expanding markets of digital printing.
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Full inventory of all our product lines.
From these bulk 5 gallon pails, they are dispensed into
smaller containers to the customers order.
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Each of our products is thoroughly tested
and QC'd in our laboratories. Here these batches of
ink are awaiting a battery of tests.
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Each batch of ink is screened thru a
0.2 micron filter to remove oversize particles ensuring
consistent color development and clog free running.
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Our inks are age tested for stability.
The chemistry and processes used by Graphic Digital
ensure the longest lasting, most stable products on
the market today.
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The processing of the pigment and colorants
used in our inks is very critical to the performance
and stability of our product. Above is one of our state-of-the-art
mills used to grind the colorant down to sub-micron
size.
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Other milling equipment is utilized
to ensure maximum efficiency of our production equipment.
Testing of new products is conducted on these lab mills.
Graphic Digital is continually looking at new products
that become available in the word wide digital markets.
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Our labs are equipped to analyze all
the properties of digital ink. It is true that one ink
does not work for ALL printers.
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The particle size of our colorant is
checked and recorded. The particle size analyzer pictured
above measures the particle size of our colorant by
laser, measuring the light scattering and returning
a "particle size distribution chart" that
profiles the size "in microns" of our colorants.
Every batch of ink we manufacture get's tested in this
manner.
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Color value - Graphic Digital quantifies
the color value of our products to ensure maximum color
gamut and color consistency. Pictured above is a spectrophotometer
that is used to measure each color.
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The spectrophotometer returns a value
that is compared to the established standard. This attention
to detail ensures our products are consistent in color
value, batch-to-batch, year-to-year.
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If
a product in production is found to be off color,
it is sent back to be corrected. Every product has
a batch number. Every container of ink we send out
the door has the batch number written on the label.
We are able to track a product back to the individual
ingredients, so if there ever was a problem, we could
correct it at the source.
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