Application of inkjet printing technology (3)

Sixth, simple maintenance of inkjet printers
In its daily use, inkjet printers should pay attention to the following maintenance items:

Pay attention to a good use of the environment must ensure that the use of the environment is clean, to ensure that the printer works on a solid level;

Correctly handle the replacement of ink cartridges. Pay attention to the original ink and compatibility. When replacing the ink cartridges, follow the steps in the operation manual. When the ink cartridges are not used, it is best not to remove them; the ink cartridges should be kept at room temperature when they are not used for a long time. Direct sunlight.

Print Head Maintenance Before turning the print head back to the original position, the cover of the machine cover can be sealed, making the nozzle not easy to clog; do not forcefully move the print head, otherwise it will cause damage to the mechanical part of the printer; plug in the printer power cord and print Always operate the cable with the printer turned off.

Seven, inkjet printing in various market segments
From the point of view of the consumer market, inkjet printers can basically be divided into the following subdivided markets, of which the commercial printing market is the most active.

☆ The promotion of digital images in the home market has boosted the demand of home users for printers. Small and inexpensive inkjet printers have surpassed the business user market in this market and have become the mainstream application field in the inkjet printing market.

☆ The business office market business office must be frequent and print a large number of documents and color report images, and put forward more stringent requirements on the reliability, maintainability of the printer, and the convenience of network sharing printing, high-end inkjet printers, spray Ink printing equipment is the mainstay of this market.

☆ Photo Export Market With the popularity of digital image input devices such as digital cameras and scanners, high-quality photo output has become an important demand market. The biggest advantage of using the printer lies in its controllability. By adjusting the computer graphics software, the photo can be made colorful, graphic information processing, and more artistic.

☆ Design output of professional image output and other graphic and graphic design departments and prepress digital proofing in the printing industry. They put forward higher requirements for printer output color consistency, ink, and consumable stability. Especially for printing proofing, complex color management software must be used so that the output inkjet proofs can reproduce the matching proofs.

☆ Bills Printing Market Public utilities, telecommunications, postal services, various types of tickets, banking, securities, insurance and other bills carry some variable data, and personalization characteristics are becoming more and more obvious. Therefore, personalization and variable data printing can be realized in this field. The market for ink jet printing is also growing.

☆ The Commercial Printing Market The commercial printing market is different from the general printed matter in that it pursues “zero inventory”, improving efficiency and reducing waste. Training materials, advertisements, brochures for custom-made products, recipes for hotels, samples for exhibitions, color business cards, school graduation certificates, personalized picture albums, tenders, etc. all form ink jets in short and ultra-short versions. The desire for digital printing.

☆ The anti-counterfeit printing market has a lot of need to use variable data methods such as two-dimensional bar codes and randomly generated serial numbers in anti-counterfeit printing, and variable data must be completed by digital inkjet printers. Therefore, inkjet printing has great market potential in security printing.

VIII. Development Trend of Digital Inkjet Technology in China
Inkjet technology promotes digital proofing development. As the resolution of inkjet printing approaches the quality level of offset printing, it will become a key technology supporting the workflow of CTP. It will replace offset printing plate proofing and occupy the printing proofing market.

Inkjet printing will coexist with screen printing. Large-scale advertising print has always been the world of screen printing, but in the near future, the market share of large format digital inkjet equipment will gradually expand. At present, inkjet printing methods have been widely used in street advertisements, body advertisements, light boxes, plaques and the like with a lower resolution, a larger printing width, and a continuous printability free from the limitation of the length.

UV inks will increase the use of inkjet printers. The UV curing method is now widely used by inkjet printers, and the manufacturing technology and control technology of UV inkjet print heads are continuously improving. UV curing ink has three major characteristics: energy-saving drying; a wide range of printability of the substrate; high-speed curing can shorten the follow-up process time.

Digital inkjet has a bright future in the field of packaging and printing. Many packaging printing manufacturers and end users are exploring the application of inkjet printing in the packaging field. Inkjet printing can be directly applied to various media such as plastic bottles, metal foils, personalized corrugated cardboard boxes, special-shaped corrugated paper boxes and labels. Perform high quality printing. For product manufacturers to provide consumers with variable information content, provide low-cost production samples, as well as a small amount of test products. In the future, inkjet printing will become a mainstream technology and will be adopted by the packaging and printing industry, which will play an important role in the future product packaging market.

The digital workflow of inkjet printing is in line with the trend of digital printing and networking. We look forward to the arrival of a new era of digital inkjet printing. In the near future, inkjet printing technology will infiltrate into a wider market, injecting new vitality into the modern printing industry.

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