ZINK Paper™ Structure
The ZINK Paper™ is an advanced composite material with cyan, yellow, and magenta dye crystals embedded inside and a protective polymer overcoat layer outside. Before printing, ZINK Paper looks like regular white photo paper.
Through an advanced manufacturing process, the ZINK™ color forming layers are coated as a colorless thin multi-layer "stack" onto a base layer. The total thickness of all the layers combined is about the thickness of a single human hair. The cyan, magenta, and yellow crystal layers are colorless at room temperature and are activated by heat during the printing process to create color.
