High-value Digital Printing Technology Based on Wet Electrographic Digital Press

Abstract

Demand for short run and ultrashort run print jobs such as those for personalized products is growing in the graphic arts industry. In response to this trend, the industry is currently moving away from analog offset printing and toward digital printing. There are several types of digital presses. The Hewlett-Packard Company currently offers an industrial wet electrographic digital press, the characteristics of which differ from those of a dry electrographic digital press. This purpose of this paper is to introduce high-value digital printing using this digital press and functional inks. The author first describes the mechanical structure and printing process of the digital press. Then, the state-of-the-art functions and technologies available for specialty printing are described.