Talking about the Lowest Heating Temperature of Coated Paper Printing

Coated paper requires proper temperature when printing, and each printer has different heat bars, and there are differences in the printing temperature required for many coated papers. Therefore, you must first master the minimum heating temperature required for the coated paper itself.

What is the minimum heating temperature for coated paper printing?

Coated paper can print high-quality photos when the temperature is between 60 and 68 degrees during the printing process, and it cannot print high-quality photos at 58 degrees, so 60 degrees is the minimum heating of coated paper. temperature.

High quality photos can be printed at 60 and 68 degrees

Why do you want to determine the minimum heating temperature for coated paper?

Since 60 degrees can print high-quality photos, as well as 62 degrees, then why should we determine the minimum heating temperature for coated paper?

1, reduce the heating paper in the paper upturned

The temperature is low. The quality of the printed photo is not good, but if the temperature is too high, the paper in the heated print will be heated and deformed. Firstly, distortion occurs on the four sides and four corners of the paper. This directly affects the quality of the print. Secondly, the heat-deformed corners rub directly onto the nozzle, causing the corners of the printed paper to be contaminated with ink, and even cause the nozzle to print. The process is interrupted, resulting in the rejection of the printed work.

2. Minimize the effect of heating on the life of the print head

The temperature of the heated print must affect the life of the print head. The temperature is high and the influence is relatively large. When the temperature is moderate, the influence is reduced or even not affected. Because of this, it is important to repeatedly test the lowest temperature of coated paper before printing it.

Different papers require different print temperatures

Different brands of ordinary coated paper printing temperature is generally around 60 degrees, the temperature difference between each other is about 5 degrees. The difference between the temperature required for printing between embossed coated paper and some special coated papers is relatively large, and some are more than 10 degrees apart.

From the use point of view, coated paper with low printing temperature should be the first choice, because such coated paper will still be smooth after printing for a whole day. Take the R290 printer as an example, it can still heat and print 6 kg of ink. The nozzles are in good condition, and the coated paper with high printing temperature can easily break during printing.

The printing temperature required for different papers is also different, because we can request a sample print test to compare before printing. In particular, embossed coated paper, the same printed paper may also require different printing temperatures.

Different brands of ink have different printing temperatures for paper

This problem did not arouse everyone's special attention, so that the thermal printing will appear due to insufficient temperature caused by heaping ink, or because the temperature is too high, there is a broken print line, which is what people often say plug.

What exactly is coated paper?

Coated paper is a paper produced by coating and decorating raw coating paper. There is a targeted printing ink coating on the paper surface. Coated paper is commonly known, and the official name should be printed coated paper, which is one of the main papers used by printing houses.

Coated paper is widely used in real life. For example, we can see calendars, book covers, illustrations, art books, pictures, etc. Almost all coated paper, all kinds of beautifully decorated packaging, paper handbags, labels Stickers, trademarks, etc. are also widely used in coated paper.

Coated paper has single glossy coated paper, double-sided glossy coated paper, double-sided matt (matt) coated paper, high gloss/matt coated paper, embossed coated paper, and special coated paper.

A、Single-sided high gloss coated paper

Single-sided glossy coated paper is generally found in over 200 grams of coated paper. This type of paper is used on ink-jet printers where only the coated side of the photo has high print quality, and the uncoated side of the photo has a general print quality, so it is generally It is not recommended to use this type of paper for printing on business cards.

B. Double-sided high gloss art paper

Double-sided high-gloss coated paper is a coated paper coated on both sides. The thickness is from 100 g to 350 g. The effect of printing on both sides of the paper is the same.

The highlights of coated paper are generally relative to matt, and its highlights are difficult to compare with our commonly used high-light RC photo papers. However, the highlights of coated papers do have high-gloss and sub-highlights. The highlights we often see are: Sub-highlights, and the real high-gloss coated paper can be compared with high-light RC photo paper.

C, double-sided matt (matt) art paper

Two-sided matte (matt) coated paper is matt on both sides. Although it is not glossy on both sides, it is definitely different from cardstock because the surface of matt coated paper is coated and the quality of printed photos is very high. .

D, high gloss / matt coated paper

High-gloss/matt coated paper is a high-gloss and matt surface on the surface of paper. Unlike single-sided glossy coated paper, it has coating on both sides of the paper, both sides can print photos and can produce high-quality photos on both sides.

High-gloss/matt coated paper is easy to distinguish from single-sided glossy coated paper. Matted coated paper must be printed by heating or it is necessary to stack ink. Card stock can be printed without heating, but the quality of photo printing is not high.

The back of the highlight is matt

E, embossed coated paper

Embossing coated paper is to press on the surface of the paper a lot of different lines, due to different lines and there are several names of coated paper. Examples include: butterfly shadow pattern, rich pattern, fine cloth pattern, tail pattern, water ripple, quarry pattern, lotus pattern, tea pattern, inspiration pattern, concentric pattern, pear pattern, wind tail pattern, jazz pattern, star rain pattern, New scale lines, bamboo lines and so on, embossed coated paper also has high light and sub-light.

Embossed coated paper enhances its decorative effect through embossing, making the paper more textured and enhancing and enhancing the expressiveness of the photograph. But it must be noted that most of the lines of embossed coated paper are not entirely suitable for photo printing, because some lines will affect the delicateness of portraits, such as bamboo grain coated paper, and this horizontal line of stripes is easily reminiscent of the nozzle Broken lines and print photos with stripes.

F, special coated paper

The special coated papers pointed out here are mainly various colored coated papers, among which are various embossed coated papers with glossy and matt surface, and gold and silver coated papers.

Particularity of special coated paper is colored, gold, silver, gold, platinum, etc. These special coated papers are more suitable for printing recipes, business cards, etc., and are not suitable for printing photos because the color of the paper will dilute the characters in the photos. Or scenery, making it look gray, not bright.