Elephant's Rocket Dark : Spot color ink cartridge for ALPS MD printers

##Elephant's Rocket Spot Color Ink##
Dark ZK-MDC-DKMR [JPY2,000]
Dark 3 cartridges ZK-MDC-DKM3 [JPY5,000] (JPY1,667/ea)

[Feature]
1. Tint: Very light gray with high transparency (smoke gray, clear black, light gray with transparency). A 15% black transparent pigment ink. Excellent color stability after printing. The following printing purposes are assumed.
[1] Light gray printing with low blackness.
[2] By overprinting on top of other colors, the color tone of the base print is changed to a slightly darker color tone (dark color tone, deep color tone, deep tone). When layered on Metallic Silver MDC-METS or Silver Foil MDC-FMES, it becomes a so-called gunmetal gray (gunmetallic gray, black plating, black chrome plating).

2. Overprinting on the same and other Elephant's Rocket spot ink: About 95%, you can overprint Elephant's Rocket spot ink on the same and other Elephant's Rocket spot inks. You can make many kind of colors and higher density by overprinting.

3. Overprinting on the ALPS inks: You can overprint this Elephant's Rocket Dark on the ALPS Cyan Magenta and Yellow inks not only overprinting on the Special color white MDC-SCWH.
You can also overprint this Elephant's Rocket Dark on the each ALPS metallic color inks.

4. Printing performance:
Very good printing quality on the water slide decal paper, normal laser paper, PVC film, and other films.
Very good printing quality on the following Elephant's Rocket Water Slide decal papers that is most popular sand dust free decal paper.
Elephant's Rocket Water Slide Decal Paper Semi-Gloss Z-CDCA4, Z-CDA4W
Elephant's Rocket Water Slide Decal Paper Gloss Z-GCDA4, Z-GCA4W
Elephant's Rocket Water Slide Decal Paper Semi-Gloss White Z-WDCA4

Very good printing quality on the white ink MDC-SCWH as white base printing.

5. Clean Manufacturing environment: Dust free and sand dust free at production line and assembly line. Elephant's Rocket ink cartridges and decal papers are very reliable product that will not damage the printing head of your ALPS MD printers.

6. Earth-friendly efforts: We have started this support of ALPS MD printers as earth-friendly ecology activity in 2010 in Japan.
In this Elephant's Rocket spot color ink cartridge, we produce them by reusing black ink cartridges.
We reject deteriorated cartridges and we use only reliable cartridge after cleaning and inspections.

We have been developed Elephant's Rocket spot color ink cartridges in conjunction with a lot of modelers and decal producers in Japan. And these inks have received high evaluation with them.

You can use them for plastic model decal of car, truck, train, airplane, helicopter, ship, boat, rocket, tank, armored car, submarine boat, gun, bike and house.


[Applicable ALPS MD printer]
ALPS MD-5500, ALPS MD-5000, ALPS MD-1500, ALPS MD-1300, ALPS MD-1000

[How to use]
Refer to the following page of Elephant's Rocket Orange ink for the detailed procedures.
--> Elephant's Rocket Orange


[How to order]
##Elephant's Rocket Spot Color Ink##
Dark ZK-MDC-DKMR [JPY2,000]
Dark 3 cartridges ZK-MDC-DKM3 [JPY5,000] (JPY1,667/ea)

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Elephant's Rocket Dark : Spot color for ALPS MD printers
Earth-friendly ecology activity.
In this Elephant's Rocket spot color ink cartridge, we produce them by reusing black ink cartridges.
We use only reliable cartridge after cleaning and inspections.


Printing on the Elephant's Rocket Water Slide Decal Paper.
Special Color White MDC-SCWH --> Elephant's Rocket Dark ZK-MDC-DKMR
Two and three times overprinting with Dark at bottom.
Can be printed well even without Special Color White MDC-SCWH.


Elephant's Rocket Water Slide Decal Paper Semi-Gloss Z-CDCA4 with Special Color White MDC-SCWH as a base print --> Print Dark ZK-MDC-DKMR (1st line), Orange ZK-MDC-ORMR (2nd , 3rd and 4th line), Cream ZK-MDC-CRMR (5th, 6th and 7th line), Green ZK-MDC-GNMR (8th, 9th and 10th line), Brown ZK-MDC-BRMR (11th, 12th and 13th line). --> Overprint Dark once (3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th line), Overprint Dark twice (4th, 7th, 10th and 13th line). You can change to a dark color tone (deep color tone) by layering Dark once or twice.


Gunmetal gray printing. Please use it for the gunmetal gray logo and markings.
Elephant's Rocket Water Slide Decal Paper Semi-Gloss Z-CDCA4 is printed with Metallic Silver MDC-METS and Dark ZK-MDC-DKMR ink. Since the appearance differs depending on the direction of the light that hits the print result, three pictures are attached. All three are the same print sheet. Only the direction of light, the angle of the camera, and the magnification are different.
Only the second line is not printed with Metallic Silver MDC-METS but the Special Color White MDC-SCWH is printed as the base print --> The spot color Dark ZK-MDC-DKMR is printed once. Since Metallic Silver MDC-METS is an opaque ink, Special Color White MDC-SCWH is not needed at other lines. Only at this second line, Special Color White MDC-SCWH is printed as base print.
Metallic Silver MDC-METS is printed at the all of lines except 2nd line. The third line is printed only in Metallic Silver MDC-METS. On the 4th, 5th, and 6th lines, the spot color Dark ZK-MDC-DKMR is overprinted once, twice, and three times on Metallic Silver MDC-METS, respectively. The more times the Dark is layered, the darker the gunmetal gray becomes. The first line is the same as the printing on the fifth line, the spot color Dark is layered twice on the Metallic Silver MDC-METS.


This is the same print result of the above gunmetal gray. The angle of the light and the angle of the camera are changed.


This is an enlarged picture of the same print result of the above gunmetal gray. The angle of the light and the angle of the camera are changed.

We will expand the variations of Elephant's Rocket Spot color ink accommodating MD users request.
If you want us to develop new color Spot color ink, please let us know following information.
1. Color information. Accurate color information, such as DIC color code is better.
2. The reason of that color, such as where it is used.

Let's expand colors together!

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