Engineering Partner Elevating Your Brand
We at Kao produce and supply private-label or custom formulated inks for inkjet printing OEM partners and manufacturers in multiple industries and markets. Through ongoing production and rigorous R&D, we strive to help brands by supporting and sustaining your inkjet printing supply chain.
Our white-labelled ink manufacturing service offers you flexibility, whether you need to specify your ink’s performance requirements and ingredients, or you decide to choose from our range of available inks already customized to match your technology and specific printing needs.
Inks with Quality & Reliability
Kao can ensure your ink performs on even the most challenging substrates and endures extreme environmental conditions.
Custom Printing Applications
Our chemists make sure your private ink is formulated to be compatible with the inkjet technologies you use and suitable for your specific printing applications.
Colour Matching
Through precise engineering of your ink’s dyes, pigments, or other colour components, we ensure your ink stays true to the visual essence of your brand.
Any Inkjet Technology, Multiple Formats
All of the contract-manufactured thermal inkjet inks offered by Kao are supplied in factory-new original cartridges to ensure printing-system compatibility and performance.
Inks For a Variety of Printing Applications
Marking and Coding | Narrow Web Printing | Textiles | Cardboard | Packaging and Labelling | Wide-format
Supported Inkjet Printing Technologies
Thermal Inkjet (TIJ) | Continuous Inkjet (CIJ) | Piezo DOD
Multiple Ink Types and Printheads
Ink Types |
Printheads |
| Water-based Ink | FUJIFILM Dimatix Ink |
| Oil-based Ink | Funai Ink |
| Solvent-based Ink | HP Ink |
| LED-curable Ink | Kodak Ink |
| UV-curable Ink | Konica Minolta Ink |
| EB-curable Ink | Kyocera Ink |
| Security Ink | Ricoh Ink |
| SII Printek Ink | |
| Xaar Ink | |
| X-BAR |
Bulk Supply Packaging and Systems
Kao’s Bulk Supply Station for HP and Funai industrial printers provides a simple and flexible alternative to single inkjet cartridges for high-volume printing applications. These gravity-fed bulk ink supply systems offer numerous efficiencies that improve bottom-line results.