22 printhead families · 5 ink types
Ink for every printhead, not just ours
We import ink for every printhead family in common use in India — Ricoh, Konica, Epson, Kyocera, Toshiba, Seiko, Spectra and Xaar, in every version those heads ship in. You do not have to have bought the machine from us.
Ink is not one product. The head decides the chemistry, the media decides the grade, and getting either wrong is the fastest way to kill a printhead.
Start here
Find the ink for your machine
If you know the machine, the head and the ink follow from it. If you only know the head, start from the compatibility table.
By chemistry
The ink families
Four chemistries and two UV grades. The grade is the one buyers get wrong — hard UV on roll media cracks at the first rewind.
- Hard UV inkHard UV cures to a harder, more scratch-resistant film. It is the grade for material that stays flat and does not flex once printed — panels, sheet, tile, signage faces.6 machines
- Soft UV inkSoft UV stays flexible after cure. It is the grade for material that has to bend — anything that comes off a roll, gets rewound, wrapped around a vehicle or hung as a banner.12 machines
- UV inkUV ink cures instantly under lamps rather than drying by evaporation, which is why it prints on material that has no absorbency at all — glass, metal, acrylic.7 machines
- Solvent inkSolvent ink bites into the surface of PVC media and dries by evaporation. It is built for outdoor durability at banner speed and at banner cost, and it is what the S series runs.4 machines
- Eco-solvent inkEco-solvent uses a milder carrier than true solvent. Less odour, safer indoors, finer detail — the trade is a slower machine and a narrower media list.5 machines
By printhead
Heads on machines we sell
Compatibility for these is derived from the machine specifications, so it cannot contradict the spec table on the machine's own page.
Ricoh Gen5
Ricoh · 6 machines
Industrial UV head. Does not recirculate, so white needs a daily routine.
Ricoh Gen6
Ricoh · 7 machines
The faster Gen-series head. Same ink family as the Gen5.
Konica 1024i / 1024a
Konica Minolta · 6 machines
High-volume grey-scale head, used where the machine is quoted in hundreds of m²/h.
Konica 9888H
Konica Minolta · 7 machines
One head, two colours. 1,776 nozzles in a 296×6 array, 5 PL minimum drop, 75 mm coverage.
Konica 512i
Konica Minolta · 4 machines
The solvent workhorse. Large drop, built for banner speed rather than fine detail.
Epson i3200 U1
Epson · 9 machines
The UV variant. U1, E1 and A1 are different heads — the letter decides the ink.
Epson i1600 U1
Epson · 3 machines
Half the nozzle count of the i3200, same UV chemistry.
Epson i3200 E1
Epson · 5 machines
The eco-solvent variant. Will not run UV ink.
Ricoh Gen4
Ricoh · 0 machines
The generation before the Gen5, still running in a lot of Indian shops.
Epson i1600 E1
Epson · 0 machines
Epson XP600
Epson · 0 machines
The most common head in the Indian entry market by a wide margin.
Epson DX5
Epson · 0 machines
Legacy, and still everywhere. Ink for it is a steady reorder line.
Epson DX7
Epson · 0 machines
Epson TX800
Epson · 0 machines
Epson 4720
Epson · 0 machines
Epson 5113
Epson · 0 machines
Kyocera KJ4B
Kyocera · 0 machines
Industrial recirculating head — the reason some machines cope with white better than ours do.
Toshiba CE4
Toshiba Tec · 0 machines
Seiko SPT
Seiko · 0 machines
Spectra Polaris
Fujifilm Dimatix · 0 machines
Spectra Starfire
Fujifilm Dimatix · 0 machines
Xaar 1201
Xaar · 0 machines
On price
Why there is no price per litre here
A price per litre answers nothing on its own. What a litre costs you depends on coverage, resolution, pass count, and how much white you lay down — and white is the channel that empties first. Two shops running the same machine on the same ink can differ by a factor of three.
No manufacturer publishes a millilitre-per-square-metre figure, and the ones circulating online are invented. So we quote ink the way we quote machines, and we would rather help you measure your own consumption — it takes an afternoon and the number is then actually yours. The method is here.
Worth reading first
Ink problems we have already written up
- Why white UV ink settlesTitanium dioxide is about 4.2× denser than the fluid carrying it. That ratio explains blockage, and which heads recirculate.
- Will the ink stick?Surface energy, primers and the tape test — including why two inks from the same maker can differ by 12 dyne/cm.
- Reading a nozzle checkDropouts that move mean air. Dropouts that stay mean dirt. Two different repairs.
Next step
Order ink
Tell us the machine and the head. We will confirm the grade and the channels before anything ships — the wrong grade is a printhead, not a return.
Ink is quoted, not listed. What a litre costs you depends on coverage, resolution and how much white you run, so tell us the machine and the volume and we will price the actual order.