Inkjet technology has been getting more familiar and more utilized in Japanese industries in the past several years. One of the major player is Scitex Digital Printing and his high speed inkjet printing system products. I would like to share the information of our latest product and application with the readers in this chance.
The today's aspects of the high speed printing by ink jet printer are overviewed. The main points of the serial printer are explained from print head, hard ware of printer, software, ink and paper. There are many technical subjects to get the optimum solution of high speed and high quality printing by ink jet. The researches for high speed ink jet printer are focused on to develop the highly integrated print head and gray scale technology. The choice of ink sysytem for fast drying and fixing is a key in ink jet printer. The technical subjects in page wide print head and printer are summarized.
It has been reported that the real time evaluation of UV curing process of photo-polymerization materials is possible by the measurement of photochange of UV ink conductivity. The conductivity method has a well correlation to the curing evaluations of UV ink by contact angle method and FT-IR spectrum method.
Color management technologies have important roles in digital color proofing and enable a low-cost color printer to be used as a color-proofing device. This article explains what technologies are employed and how they perform in the color-proofing device. Additionally, some technical standards relating to color proofing are shown.