TRIDENT LAUNCHES NEW FABRICFAST ULTRA™

TRIDENT LAUNCHES NEW FABRICFAST ULTRA™
PIGMENT INK JET INKS
Vibrant Colors and Enhanced Wash fastness Now Available for Digital Textile Printing

Brookfield, CT. (June 5, 2006) – Trident announces the launch of its new set of FabricFast Ultra^™ Pigment Ink Jet Inks with binders. This next generation, water-based, pigment textile ink jet ink is significantly improved from the previous FabricFast Pigment inks providing more brilliant colors and enhanced wash fastness on untreated fabrics, even cotton and natural fibers (wash fast rating of 4 out of possible 5). FabricFast Ultra is available in CYMK, cyan light, magenta light, grey, as well as spot colors orange, blue, red and green to further increase color gamut.

FabricFast ink provides the soft hand of dye-based inks with the wash fastness and light fastness of pigment inks in an ecologically friendly water-base. Unlike dye-based inks, these FabricFast Ultra inks require no expensive steamers to bind inks to the fabric and can be cured through simple heat fixation. This streamlines the curing process and enables better job to job consistency without the color differences experienced from the variability of the steaming process.

"Trident has taken their product to a new level with FabricFast Ultra," says Nedim Gucel of Aykur Emprime, Trident's distributor of FabricFast Ultra Inks in Turkey. "This pigment dye provides a fast, effective, and efficient alternative to other solutions such as disperse and reactive dyes. Trident's product is especially strong for people who are using disperse dyes for banner applications. FabricFast Ultra is a good overall alternative because there is no need for initial setup or cleanup work, there is also no clogging, and the printed fabric has excellent color fastness in addition to color vibrancy."

Trident’s water-based, pigment ink jet inks are for printing directly onto a broad range of untreated fabrics with wide format printers such as Mimaki, Mutoh, Roland, Stork or Epson printers. These cost-effective inks are also available for the growing direct-to-garment printing market such as T-shirts and crafts with small format printers such as the Epson 1800, 2100/2200, 3000, 4000, and 7800.

"FabricFast Ultra provides the textile market with the capability to produce brilliant textiles, even on natural fibers, simply and economically," says Steve Liker, Trident Business Manager for Textiles. "Trident has created this next generation of FabricFast based on experience gained with the original FabricFast pigments launched a year ago. By listening to our customer base we’ve further improved the color vividness and color gamut, significantly improved the wash fastness all on untreated fabrics and created a highly effective solution for the rapidly growing digital textile market."

Sample Kits of FabricFast Ultra inks are available from Trident for evaluation trials. Contact Steve Liker at Trident Brookfield at sliker@trident-itw.com.

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