Is UV ink soft or hard ?

Is UV ink soft or hard ?

September 22, 2025

UV printers
need to use soft ink and hard ink to print different materials. Below, we will explain the specific differences and applications:

1、 Advantages and characteristics of soft ink and hard ink:

Advantages and characteristics of soft

UV ink
: UV soft ink can be applied in a wide range of fields, with the advantages of high color saturation and good color restoration. Excellent waterproof performance, strong weather resistance, output images can be stored for a long time, and the printed patterns will not crack due to forced distortion of the material.

Advantages and characteristics of hard UV ink: Hard ink has better adhesion to harder materials, and the effect of inkjet products is glossy, with high saturation, and strong three-dimensional image.

2、 Use range of soft ink and hard ink

Common soft ink applications: mobile phone leather cases, leather, advertising cloth, soft PVC, soft plastic shell, etc.

Common hard ink applications include hard materials such as metal, glass, hard plastic, ceramic tiles, plexiglass, acrylic, advertising signs, or composite microcrystalline processes (some materials require coating).

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