Frontier Reports from UV Ink 1

The reason why ink jet printing can get a share of the traditional printing market is that its single printing job cost is lower. However, ink jet printing still cannot replace traditional offset printing or screen printing because its printing speed is not satisfaction. Now, with the advent of UV-curing technology, UV-curable inkjet printing has been greatly improved in terms of printing speed.

In fact, UV curing technology has penetrated all kinds of printing equipment, printing inks and printing materials (single sheets or reels, even textiles) into all-pervasive applications, making these new devices faster and more resolving power. For more printing materials, and a higher degree of automation. It can be said that it is UV printing technology that has saved inkjet printing so that it can be applied to new markets - new areas that have never been thought of and developed.

UV family re-expansion

1.The expansion of the UV printing market

If you participated in a recent printing exhibition, such as the ISA held in 2007, more than 10 UV printing equipments made their debut. At the SGIA held in the fall of 2006, more than ten UV printing equipments were introduced for the first time. In just one year, more than 20 new types of UV printing equipment have been introduced to the market. This unprecedented scale is a significant improvement for the UV printing market.

“We believe that the UV inkjet printing market will continue to grow strongly worldwide, and the sales rate of new UV printing equipment will increase by 30% per year,” said Tim Greene, head of large-format printing at InfoTrends/CAP Ventures. Improvements in multi-service selection, improved image output quality, environmental protection, and new markets such as the printing of hard surface substrates have made UV ink jet printing positive.

InfoTrends predicts that sales growth rate of UV-curing printing equipment will reach double-digit growth in 2010, and in 2010, sales of UV inks will surpass equipment sales and become the largest growth market in UV printing.

According to Grey Held, head of large-format print consulting services at the printing industry research organization Lyra, the UV printing market will grow by 38% in 2007, and major printing equipment manufacturers will continue to improve their UV printing equipment, such as printing speeds. With respect to the durability of UV inks, the application of these new technologies has opened new doors for a series of printing applications.

2. Breakthrough in UV printing technology

UV inks have short reaction time and low temperature requirements under ultraviolet irradiation. They can print a wide range of printing materials, but when printing with UV metal inks, they must be very accurate. Special printing color groups must be made of special materials, such as glass, Printing on ceramics, if it can well solve the UV printing process on the conductor, I believe the UV printing market will gain greater space for expansion.

3. Looking for UV Printing New Blue Ocean

Commercial printing companies usually rely on banner advertising and display rack advertising to obtain business, but those customers who provide printing orders to printing companies obviously do not meet these existing, limited forms of advertising. They hope to expand their business through continuous innovation and acquire new customer bases.

UV printing can be flexibly printed on hard or soft substrates, and it immediately wins in the highly competitive market. These innovative markets include: auto body printing, textile printing and printing, and printing. The hottest market is car body advertising. The previous UV printing process could not be realized. However, the flexibility of UV-curing printing is now fully reflected. Not only the hard body can be directly printed, but even the most complicated car row. The printing on the trachea is also handy.

4.Technical innovation of UV print head

Better print quality means finer jet ink droplets, which of course also include better control of jet ink droplets. In addition to increasing the print quality by continuously reducing the size of the ink droplets, it can also be achieved with a multi-gray print head. Currently, the most advanced printhead on the market includes Toshiba's grayscale that can be achieved in up to 8 levels, print heads with drop sizes from 6-24ppl, and grayscales that can achieve 6 levels of drop size. 3-40ppl Xaar OmniDot 760/GS8 printhead.