• Glaze Stains
• Underglaze High Temp.
• Underglaze Low Temp.
• Overglazes
• Speckles

• Precious Metals
  - Bright Gold
  - Burnish Gold
  - Bright Platinum
  - Burnish Platinum
  - Gold Paste
  - Silver Paste
  - Matt Underlayer

• Lusters
• Metallic

AMARIN Liquid Underglaze Colours (Low Temp.)
Brilliant, ready-to-use colours, the AMARIN series 39 consists of 42 colours which can be applied to earthenware and dolomite ware by painting, spraying on greenware or biscuit before applying a covering glaze. The colours in this series are used with great success by those customers who fire at temperature between 920-1160 °C.

The decorating colours can be applied to earthenware, bone china, and vitreous china by all techniques such as painting, edging, spraying, and screen printing. The colours are fired onto the temperature between 700-800 °C depending on the glaze and firing conditions. On porcelain, the maximum firing temperature is limited to 800-820 °C due to the resistance of the cadmium colours No 150, 151 and 152.

Method of use: spraying, dipping, pouring, sprinkling, screen printing,....etc.
Firing temperature: 980-1300 °C.

Bright/Burnish Precious Metal Preparations are vanish-like organic compounds containing precious metals, combined with flux components based on organic metal compounds. The flux compounds act as adhesion promoters.
These preparations also contain resin solutions as film formers. On a smooth surface, a high-gloss precious metal film forms after firing. According to the colour shade of the fired product, a differentiation is made between:

    - Bright Gold, which develops a typical reddish-yellow gold shade after firing, and contains a small proportion of silver.Preparation has a fine gold content of 6% to 15%. Preparations with a fine gold content of less than 6% are designated as lustres.
    - Bright Platinum and Bright Palladium, which fire to a white-gold shade, achieved by formation of an Au/Pt or Au/Pd alloy.Preparations have a combined precious metal content (gold, platinum and Palladium) of 3% to 12%.

A dull precious metal film is formed after firing, which develops a satin surface by subsequent burnishing with a glass fiber brush, sand, or other compacting materials. Burnish PM Preparations are classified as matt preparations and are subdivided into:
    - Burnish Gold, which often contains a small portion of silver in addition to gold, enabling the colour shade to be varied from reddish-yellow to yellow to greenish-yellow, through the formation of alloys. Preparation have a fine gold content of 12% to 40%.
    - Burnish Platinum and Burnish Palladium, which fire to a white gold shade achieved by the formation of a Au/Pt or Au/Pd alloy. Preparation also contain platinum and/or palladium.

Preparations to be applied by spray gun, brush and hand stamping require low viscosity, while those processed by screen printing or other mechanical application methods require high viscosity. Bright PM/Burnish PM Preparation are generally supplied ready for use. If desired, suitable thinning oils can be added to adjust the viscosity.

Firing conditions depend on the type of body to be decorated. As the organic compounds in the preparation decompose during firing, good ventilation of the kiln (surplus of oxygen in the kiln atmosphere) must be assured during the entire process, at least up to 500 °C.

Firing conditions common in the ceramic industry:
      - Earthenware      700-780 °C
      - Tile                       750-900 °C
      - Porcelain            780-840 °C
      - Bone China        750-800 °C

Storage: Should be stored in a cool and dry place, please note that bright precious metal preparations have a shelf life of 12 months.

Packing: Preparation are supplied in the following packing sizes:
Special packing sizes of less than 1 kg (10 gram,100 gram) are available upon request.

The product range offers innovative, high quality bright precious metal preparations for indirect screen-printing applications on porcelain and earthenware with the advantages are:

• Brilliant firing results
• Problem-free processing (indirect screen-printing with skim-coat)
• Easy screen cleaning
• No strong or overpowering odour
  
• Very good compatibility with decorating colours, and stability with covercoats

Application:
To obtain optimal firing results, the transfer should be fixed very carefully on to the substrate (using a squeegee or a soft cloth), especially when decorating curved or relief forms. The transfer must not be stretched too much. Any water residue on the decorated transfer is to be avoided.

Firing:
The firing conditions depend on the type of body to be decorated. In general, the organic compounds in the preparation evaporate during firing. Therefore, good ventilation of the kiln must be assured during the entire firing process, or at least up to 500 °C.
Recommended Firing Temperatures
      - Porcelain:         780-840 °C (normal firing)
                                     860-900 °C (fast firing)
      - Earthenware:   700-780 °C

Storage: Should be stored in a cool, dry place. Shelf life of 6 months should not be exceeded.

Lusters are vanish-like preparations, based on metal and/or precious metal containing organic compounds, with resin solutions as film former. When fired on porcelain, earthenware, enamel, tiles, or glass they produce very thin, intensive coloured and lustrous layers, which give them their metallic iridescent finish.

Lusters can contain up to 6% gold as well as silver, platinum and palladium. They are classified according to colour shade and precious metal content, as well as according to their special effects, as indicated by their classification as craquelling or marbling lusters, running lusters, and halo lusters.

Amarin Ceramics Corp.,Ltd.
Phone: (662) 294-0054
Fax: (662) 294-6415
Email: info@amarinceramics.com

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