Pigments are essentially coloured powders or Liquid, and are used to produce a full range of colours. We can say pigments are a primary material, to produce all types of paints and colouring material, Enamels, acrylics, pastels, chalks, Coloured pencils, oils textile prints , Inks, Rubbers, Plastics etc.
These Organic pigments find wide application in plastics, paints, liquid inks, textiles, rubber, cosmetics, artist colors etc. They have excellent dispertion and ethology characteristics required for painting link requirements with good transparency,gloss and tone. These pigments are homogeneous belonging to Azo or Phthalocyanine groups. The physical, chemical, coloristic as well as fastness properties of the pigments depend to a large extent on the type of binders used, presence of driers, hardness, the substrate and film thickness etc.