subject: Series Of Large Format Inkjet Knowledge Types And Characteristics Of Ink [print this page] Large format inkjet printer with good image quality, short delivery time, can be printed in a variety of printing material on the characteristics of customers of the popular in recent years, rapid application in many fields. According to the different inks used can be divided into water-based ink large format inkjet printer inkjet, solvent inkjet, UV inkjet several, here a brief characteristics of these types of presses and applications.
1. Water-based ink jet Large format water-based ink jet printer
excellent image quality, suitable for printing outdoor and indoor products, and the lowest initial investment cost, therefore, in digital proofing, fine art reproduction, photography and other fast-growing market applications. According to the U.S. CAP predicts that the global water-based ink jet printer large format retail sales from 18 billion U.S. dollars in 2004 to 21 billion U.S. dollars in 2009. Water-based ink in the large format inkjet
area's leading supplier of printing are: Canon, Kodak, Epson, Hewlett-Packard. The past two years, large format water-based ink jet systems prices dropped significantly, and even spent 1,000 U.S. dollars can buy a low-end products. In the water-based high-end ink jet market, print service providers have invested in 42,44,60 inch wide presses. For example, AllegraNetworks and FedEx, Kinko's company are rapidly growing in the large format printing market, print service providers.
2. Solvent Inkjet Solvent-based and environmentally friendly solvent-based inkjet printer is a hot topic among people. More active in this area are mainly manufacturers Mimaki, Wu Tang, Oc, Roland and others. Solvent-based inkjet printer has the advantage to lower the cost of printing a good outdoor durability of printed matter. Solvent-based ink water-based ink than the cheap, and solvent-based inkjet printing materials used for relatively cheap prices. Use of solvent-based inkjet printing press no longer coated printed products, which saves time and reduces costs. With solvent-based large format inkjet printing environment system development, many print service providers (from the studio to the screen printers) are investing large format solvent-based inkjet printing systems. According to CAP predicts that the global large-format solvent inkjet printer for retail sales from 2004 to 90 billion dollars to 18 billion U.S. dollars in 2009, average annual growth rate of about 16.9%.
3.UV Inkjet According to statistics, the year 2004 alone, more than 20 suppliers have launched a large-format UV inkjet printer. In which both speed of 75 square feet per hour, priced at 50,000 U.S. dollars of products, but also speed of 1700 square feet per hour, price is 50 million or more products. Large format UV inkjet printer not only has excellent print quality images, but also print white ink. With the same solvent inkjet printer, UV inkjet printer has a price slightly lower than the water-based ink jet ink printer features, images printed materials printed outdoor durability, no longer coated. Particularly since the introduction of a number of companies large format flatbed UV inkjet printing system, the user can directly in wood, metal, ceramics, glass and other printed products. According to CAP predicts that large-format UV inkjet printing system, from retail sales of 2.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2004 to 10 billion U.S. dollars in 2009.
Present, in large format UV inkjet market-leading vendors have IncaDigital (2005 6 Dainippon Screen acquired the company 30 million pounds, Screen is now a wholly owned subsidiary), NURMacroprinters, VUTEk and ZUND so. In addition, MacDermidColorSpan, Mimaki and other companies have introduced new products.
Some experts predict that the current large format digital printing worldwide retail sales of 290 billion, annual growth rate of about 10%. Thus, large format inkjet printing market is undoubtedly a profitable large markets with good prospects for development.
