Due to their film-forming and binding abilities, resins are used in:

• Printing inks (offset, and heliogravure)
• Paints and varnishes
• Pigment coatings
• Road marking.

For instance resins are used in the printing ink industry for the formulation of varnishes mainly in:

• newspaper offset inks, heat set offset inks, sheet fed offset inks, mostly in combination
• with a printing ink oil
• gravure printing inks.

Particular advantages of using resins in printing inks are:

• control of viscosity
• increased solid content
• increased gloss
• improvement of pigment wetting
• increase of pigment adhesion properties
• adjusting absorption of humidifier