in general waterless inks still lack the big sales quantity of conventional inks,mass flow bringing batch sizes big enough for special pigments and the recycling of leftovers. also a diversification to all purpose, glossy, rub resistant,food packaging grades can emerge only with certain sales quantity. the development of inks with conventionally formulated ingredients shows already quite good results, because it is possible to use more polar binders than in wet offset with its emulsification risks. A consequent new way tried some years by sun chemical Hartman and kast & Ehinger (now flint group) in Germany, was stopped-unfortunately: inks based on totally polar substances mixable or at least washable with water. they dried too quickly and became too viscous. So they were too difficult to control in their machine performance, and the development had to be stopped. But the idea is so promising. because surface tensions of such inks would be high, more than 40 or 50 mN/m. This makes a comfortable big difference to silicon surfaces and lets a lot of tolerance with rising temperatures without toning risks. And once under control, the quick will be an advantage in comparison to wet offset.