Look from the way of printing, water-based ink for offset printing is not applicable at present, its main application fields are flexible printing and gravure printing.

1、 the application in the field of flexo: as we know, flexo and gravure products mostly packaging products, including food packaging, tobacco packaging, children's toys and other health conditions require strict packaging printing take a dozen of proportion, therefore, an urgent need to new printed materials, and suitable for printing ink undoubtedly become one of the best choice.Set off waves of the "green revolution" in the world, under the impact of flexo development soon, the main reason is that most flexo printing using water-based ink, with excellent environmental performance, in accordance with the development trend of modern packaging and printing.In the United States with 95% of flexo product use water-based ink, in Japan, 70% flexible printed version used for corrugated board, of which 95% are using water-based ink.In our country, flexo accounted for the proportion of growing.

2、 the application in the field of gravure: water-based gravure ink in the 1970 s are widely used in wrapping paper, cardboard box printing, due to evaporation drying and absorption in the paper printing dry is better, therefore, water-based ink drying problem is better solved, popularization of also early, in the United States has 80% of the gravure printing using water-based ink.

3、in the field of screen printing applications: has been extensive use of water-based screen printing ink with Sweden, Germany and the United States.Since the 1980 s, the world has developed fabric, paper, PVC, PS, aluminum foil and metal with light and light water-based ink on the Internet.Our country's development is very fast, screen printing and screen printing water-based ink development and popularization of the progress of the speed is relatively slow.It is reported that our country on the paper and plastic substrates have been in use for screen printing water-based ink and gravure, water-based flexo ink.