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In the 1990’s, a group of individuals at one of
South Africa’s first digital printing
companies were faced with a dire problem. In their
desperation to improve the quality
of prints of their flagship printer, they had
addressed all but one part of the
printer and printing process. The Ink. But the
solution, and the beginnings of a
global ink manufacturer lay therein.
With the assistance of an ink chemist, the team
began designing an ink, optimised
for use with their troubled printer. After countless
trials and errors, an ink was
produced that not only increased the quality of the
printed images, but also reduced
nozzle drop outs and down time, drastically
enhancing the printer’s capabilities
far beyond anything the team had anticipated. The
“Magic” ink as it was called,
was selected by the printer’s manufacturer as the
preferred ink for the printer
type.
The opportunities facing this newly founded Ink
business were far too great to be
confined to a department of a printing company. And
so, in 1998 a separate specialist
ink development and manufacturing company was
founded. TechINK was born.
TechINK was subsequently acquired by the printer’s
manufacturer and the combination
of these two companies strengths have been
instrumental in TechINK’s emergence as
a leader in the manufacture of solvent based digital
printing inks and accessories.
That same commitment to innovation that was
responsible for the birth of TechINK
is the drive behind everything the company does
today.
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