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If you have ever stood at a press wondering why your colour is off, or why a substrate just will not take the ink, you already know the dirty secret of printing: the machine is only half the story. The ink is where the magic — or the misery — happens. That is why Sun Chemical’s booth at Printing United Expo 2026, running 23-25 September at the Las Vegas Convention Center, is worth a proper look.
Sun Chemical will demo its range of digital, degassing and industrial print solutions on Stand C2880, and the line-up is broad enough to touch almost every corner of the market: graphics, sign and display, textile and industrial.
On the graphics side, the headline is Streamline Kashu, an aqueous pigment ink for paper, poster and corrugated printing tuned for Epson i3200 printheads, sitting alongside the wider water-based range including Streamline Toccata for poster and POS corrugated work. There is also a family of low-viscosity UV and UV direct-to-film (DTF) inks for the same Epson i3200 heads, plus the updated Streamline ESL 2 and Ultima eco-solvent inks, tuned for Epson i3200 and Brother heads. Those low-odour eco-solvents are Greenguard Gold certified and come in cartridges, pouches or bulk — a small detail that matters a lot to a production manager juggling different press configurations.
Textile is where things get colourful, literally. Sun Chemical is showing its market-leading sublimation inks ElvaJet Opal and ElvaJet Topaz, plus Xennia Sapphire PC pigment inks for Kyocera that have been upgraded for better fastness across fabrics. The portfolio complies with the standards brands actually ask for — OEKO-TEX Eco-Passport, ZDHC Road to Zero and GOTS. For DTF, there is Xennia Jade, with high-opacity white and vibrant colour, and a new textile transfer ink for sportswear offering high-opacity white and serious flexibility.
The industrial story runs through SunJet, the inkjet brand of Sun Chemical and DIC, which will talk through collaborations with OEM partners, system integrators and printhead makers across graphics, decor, direct-to-shape, industrial and packaging, including corrugated. A standout is the SunEvo EV-LWR09 WB LEP primer — Sun Chemical’s first HP Indigo-approved primer for label applications, covering HP Indigo 6X00, 6K, 6K+, 8X00 and 8K presses. It is built for flexibility and reliability across PE, PP, coated and uncoated paper, metallised paper and wine labels — exactly the kind of multi-SKU, multi-substrate chaos a digital label house lives in. Rounding it out is the SEPAREL suite of hollow-fibre membrane ink degassing modules for aqueous, solvent and UV inks.
Peter Saunders, Global Director – Digital, EM & Screen Businesses at Sun Chemical, put the strategy plainly: their customers are central to development, and by leaning on a global network of manufacturing, warehousing and field support, they help printers cut risk, green their logistics, and tap deep formulation expertise.
The takeaway for printers is not “wow, lots of inks” — it is that the ink companies are quietly doing the unglamorous integration work that lets a shop run more substrates, more processes and more short runs without chaos. At Printing United, the booths with the longest queues are rarely the flashiest machines. They are the ones solving the problem you are dealing with on Monday morning. Sun Chemical’s stand looks like one of those.
Source: Specialist Printing Worldwide — “Sun Chemical to demonstrate digital ink solutions to transform printing at PRINTING United Expo 2026”
