International Journal For Technological Research In Engineering

Volume 3, Issue 10, June-2016 ISSN (Online): 2347 - 4718

NATURAL JAMUN INK PREPARATION FOR SCREEN PRINTING

ON PAPER
Rubia1, Aman Bhardwaj2, Nishan Singh3

ABSTRACT: An attempt of natural jamun ink preparation STEPS FOLLOWED FOR NATURAL JAMUN INK
for screen printing on paper is made in this paper. Steps PREPARATION
followed for ink preparation are simple. Constituents used  250 gm of jamun pulp is grinded with 200ml of
for ink preparation are natural. Natural inks prepared from water for 2 minutes. Now this paste is boiled at
plants, fruits, vegetables, minerals, microbes are used 70°C for 30 minutes so that harmful bacteria and
mainly for printing on textile. Using natural inks have enzymes present in the sap becomes inactive.
various benefits like skin-friendly, less pollution generation,  During this boiling process the colouring
eco-friendly, bio-degradable, non-toxic etc. Prepared jamun component anthocyanin present in jamun dissolved
ink is safe to eat and is non-toxic. Using natural inks for properly in water and gives purple colour.
paper is an alternate to synthetic inks which are harmful to  Sap is filtered using muslin cloth and boiled again
human health. Prepared ink gives good colour strength to bring the final concentration to 100 ml.
when printed on paper.  Now 1 tbsp of salt as preservative, 1½ tbsp of
Keywords: jamun, colourant, natural ink, paper arrow root powder for viscosity, 1 tbsp of gum
acacia paste as resin are added in the sap and sap is
I. INTRODUCTION boiled till the consistency of ink changes.
Nature has so many beautiful colours. We have used one  Now the prepared ink is used for printing on paper
such colour from nature i.e. purple from jamun for natural using screen. Print obtained is shown in figure 1.
ink preparation for screen printing on paper. Colouring Prepared ink gives good colour strength of purple
component present in black current is anthocyanin. For ink colour.
preparation simple aqueous method is used. It is a traditional
method for extracting colour from natural resources. In this
method, colour containing compound if dry broken down into
small pieces or in powdered form by grinding and soaked
with water in vessel for some time to loosen the cell
structure. If colour containing compound is in wet form then
it is chopped down to fine pieces or grinded to fine paste.
Then these broken down pieces are boiled in water to get the
colouring component dissolved in water. This solution is Figure 1
filtered to separate colouring solution and non-colouring DATA ANALYSIS
remnant. Both can be used easily to impart colour to different Print was evaluated on various parameters which are shown
things. There are some disadvantages associated with this in table 1.
extraction method like slow process for extracting colour, Sr. Parameters Harad Powder Ink
high temperature requirement, large volume of water No.
requirement, heat sensitive colouring substances gets reduced
at high temperature, low dye yield, only water soluble 1. Sunlight exposure for 7 Stable
colouring components can be extracted. Components of days
prepared ink are shown in table 1.
2. Rub resistance test Stable (upto 1000
rounds)
Table 1. Components of prepared ink
Sr. No. Components of Ink Jamun Ink 3. Peel-off test Stable

1. Solvent Water
4. UV exposure for 6 hours Stable

2. Resin Gum acacia

5. Stability at low temperature Stable
3. Pigment Anthocyanin
6. Permanency of colour in Stable
4. Additive Salt, arrow root powder normal day-light conditions

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7. Drying time 3-5 sec.

8. Colour of printed ink Purple

II. RESULT AND DISCUSSION

Natural jamun Ink gives good colour strength of purple
colour when printed on paper. Ink used is easy to prepare,
economical and gives good print quality. After evaluation of
printed ink, it was found that ink is stable with respect to
various tests of rub-resistance, peel-off, sun exposure, UV
exposure, permanency of colour in normal day-light
conditions.

III. CONCLUSION
Following are the conclusion from this research work:
 Jamun Ink is feasible for printing on paper using
screen printing.
 Life of ink is from 50-60 days.
 Simple manufacturing process.
 Prepared ink is eco-friendly and easy to decompose.
This can be concluded that prepared purple jamun ink can be
a good alternate to synthetic inks. More research is required
in this field to standardize the method for ink preparation
from jamun.

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