What is the difference between ink and paint?
The coating is watery and can be dissolved in water. The ink is oily and can only be dissolved with an organic solvent that is lighter than it. Generally speaking, the paint and ink are similar, are made of resin connection material (ink) or called the base material (paint), color, additives and other components. The difference should be used in the application of the industry, used in the printing industry called ink, relatively ink more refined, and the coating is mainly to protect the role of both sometimes to protect the decoration. There is no clear boundary between the two.
Paint is a material that can be used in a variety of different construction process coated on the surface of the object to form a strong adhesion, with a certain strength, continuous solid film. The film thus formed is called a coating film, also known as a paint film or a coating. Belonging to organic chemical polymer materials, the formation of the coating belongs to the type of polymer compounds.
Ink is an important material for printing, it is printed by the pattern, the text on the substrate. The ink contains the main ingredients and auxiliary ingredients, they are evenly mixed and repeatedly rolled into a viscous colloidal fluid. By the pigment, binder and additives and solvents and other components. For books, packaging and decoration, architectural decoration, and other printing.
