I saw a company trying to make printer ink out of algal pigments. See below from a review I just wrote:

Printer Ink. Microalgae as a substitute for petroleum-based inks is an example of a product that is already in development by a company called Living Ink Technologies, LLC (Fort Collins, CO, USA). They have been funded by the US National Science Foun

dation’s SBIR program (NSF Award #1758587) and have prototype products with promise as potential substitutes for petroleum-based printer inks. As scaled up algal biomass production accelerates in the microalgal biorefinery, the potential to use pigments that might be extracted prior to destructive processing could reduce the cost of microalgae-derived printer inks and make this company’s approach a disruptive high value co-product.

Thanks Thomas,

But is this economically justifiable?

Has the company succeeded in this?

BDI in Austria started production of Astaxanthin from haematococcus pl. at industrial scale this year. You can find more Information here: https://www.bdi-biolifescience.com/en/product/astafit.html

Thanks Markus,

Do you know which variety of Haematococcus pluvialis they are using?

BG-11 and Modified BG-11, Low-cost media (Urea, N, K, P).

Dear Morteza!

I am no sure about the variety - think you might have to get in contact with BDI fo this info...

Regards, Markus