Digital Printing in the Printing Industry

Editor's note: The ultimate goal of packaging and printing is to achieve direct printing on primary packaging and integrate it with packaging (bags, bags, cans, etc.). Digital printing is the only technology that can do this, and the launch of the XAAR Leopard print head. It is an important breakthrough for packaging and printing applications, providing the first printing ink that can meet the market's high-quality printing levels. Program.
XAAR inkjet digital drop-on-demand technology is playing an important role in primary and secondary packaging.
The ability of the XAAR drop-on-demand inkjet print heads to print on many different surfaces and substrates has led to the birth of new packaging presses called "tablets." When the machine is in operation, media such as folded cartons can be placed on a platform and then printed from above, either using a print head for scanning and printing, or moving the platform under a fixed print head. This process means that ink can be printed on any surface, regardless of how uneven it is. Even printing on raised surfaces such as corrugated board does not pose any problem.
XAAR Leopard Print Head - An important breakthrough in packaging printing is the ultimate goal of direct printing on primary packaging and integration with packaging (bags, bags, cans, etc.). Digital printing is the only technology that can do this, and the launch of the XAAR Leopard print head. It is an important breakthrough for packaging and printing applications, providing the first printing ink that can meet the market's high-quality printing levels. Program. It can be installed on a packaging line, printed directly on the outer package, and achieves the same high quality output level as pre-printed labels, but eliminates the extra costs and procedures for producing and attaching labels.
Based on XAAR's unique grayscale printing technology, XAAR
The Leopard print heads provide an approximately photographic quality reprint, making it an ideal tool for packaging printing. It has also been designed to print UV-curable inks that can be printed on plastic products such as bottles, boxes and labels, thereby transforming product packaging into an efficient marketing medium.
XAAR grayscale technology With XAAR's grayscale technology, multiple droplets can be jetted out of the same nozzle in rapid succession, instead of just producing a single droplet like the two-state printing method. These multiple ink droplets fuse as needed to form variable-size pixels, thereby facilitating increased resolution. The XAAR Leopard printhead produces 8 levels of gray and prints clear images greater than 900 dpi. At the same time, because this type of print head can print higher resolution images with fewer pixels, it can also bring significant speed advantages over two-state printing. In addition, the variable droplet size also improves print quality and controls the amount of ink that is printed to suit the specific requirements of each substrate material.
XAAR is currently working with three major ink manufacturers, namely Sutdet and Sericol
Lmaging and Ave-cia worked together to develop a series of inks for the packaging printing market. The latest advances in ink selection for UV-curable inks, the primary packaging application, have already had a positive impact on the packaging market. UV-curing inks with flexible formulation ingredients are particularly suitable for non-contact inkjet printing. It has the characteristic of almost instant drying caused by the help of UV irradiation, which guarantees that the image will be dried immediately after printing on any material and will not fade after a long time. The final printing result is the same. The glossy paper printed magazines are of the same quality, will not fade or be scratched or damaged during handling.
Ink Jet Printing Promotes New Opportunities for the Packaging Industry A new trend in the secondary packaging market is driven by the cooperation of product manufacturers, marketing service providers, and supermarket retailers. They realized that the advantage of digital printing technology is that it can print less variable variable information on demand. The product packaging must look good enough while providing retailers with the opportunity to display variable information such as promotional offers. Moreover, these merchants also require the ability to produce low-cost product samples, as well as a small amount of test products. Although traditional printing methods can also do this, the cost of printing is often unacceptably high because of the small amount of printing. Digital inkjet printing provides a simple solution for delivering products that are differentiated for the purpose of marketing in a global market and brand recognition. Also, drop-on-demand inkjet printing technology provides instant image conversion, which saves money by reducing inventory and immediate production.
Since printing accounts for about 15% of the total cost of the entire packaging process, it is extremely important to develop an efficient, simple and cost-effective packaging and printing solution. According to estimates by the United States "Information Technology Strategy" consulting company, 90% of packaging printers and end users are currently using or are actively developing and using digital printing technology.
Digital inkjet printing offers solutions for short delivery times, short run times, and minimal preparation and downtime. Moreover, this solution can also be successfully integrated into the packaging line. The versatility and high margins offered by XAAR printing technology, including the recently launched Leopard print head grayscale printing, will ensure that on-demand inkjet digital printing technology will be further widely applied and in product packaging and promotion. Play an important role in meeting the future needs of our image-oriented society.