XAAR Digital Printing Technology Applied in Packaging and Printing

In the next few years, the new progress of digital inkjet printing technology will change the packaging and printing industry. From secondary packaging processing, such as packaging and coding, to full-color images of primary packaging, direct printing, inkjet printing is competing with some traditional packaging and printing methods, and at the same time it is complementary to other packaging printing methods.

As the world's leading technology innovator, XAAR's revolutionary drop-on-demand digital inkjet printing technology is playing a key role in many new advances in packaging printing, especially in bar code label printing. Its pioneering print heads and special inks provide a new form of printing and are developed and utilized by a large number of printer manufacturers. They all affirmed the successful combination of XAAR solutions, namely the combination of quality and versatility.

Advanced XAAR print heads with a larger number of nozzles allow them to print variable data information on the substrate, producing excellent coverage levels, fast print speeds and high quality. This print head can adapt to a variety of inks, including oil bases, solvents, and UV-curing inks. This feature, combined with another feature of the XAAR technology, the non-contact printing format, allows XAAR print heads to print on virtually all substrate surfaces, whether they are rigid or flexible, porous, or Non-porous, smooth, or not smooth. These key factors combine to bring many opportunities and benefits that traditional technologies, such as flexographic and screen printing, can not imagine, and are particularly attractive to the packaging and printing industry.

Leading technology from XAAR in the United Kingdom has been used by various types of original equipment manufacturers in the printing industry. They have installed XAAR print heads in a large number of different printing equipments they manufacture, and have achieved a wide range of practical applications such as wide-format inkjet printing, document printing, decorative inkjet printing, and special applications such as ceramic decorative printing. In the packaging market, this technology is also gaining ever-increasing applications. In addition to the benefits of this technology itself, digital inkjet is particularly suitable for packaging and printing because it can be easily integrated into a production line without causing any significant disruption to existing processes. At the same time, reliable high-quality output ensures that the quality of the final product is further improved, so that any aspect of the printing process will not be compromised.

Digital printing of outer packaging code

The main area of ​​application of digital printing technology that will appear in the packaging industry will be outer packaging coding. Many vendors in this market enjoy the performance advantages offered by XAAR in print speed and resolution. They are raising people's expectations about how the packaging industry should develop in the future, as well as the level of quality required by the packaging market.

For example, the previous requirement for quick printing of the "best usable" bar code identification device was accomplished by continuous inkjet technology (CIJ). Although continuous inkjet technology can provide higher linear speeds and can perform longer distance printing on curved surfaces such as bottles and cans, the output quality is low. This is where drop-on-demand inkjet technology delivers higher efficiency than continuous inkjet technology. Drop-on-demand inkjets can achieve much higher print quality and resolution, while at the same time, higher coverage ratios can be achieved by using more jets to print smaller droplets at lower linear speeds. Therefore, on-demand inkjet is far more suitable than continuous inkjet, and is more suitable for printing applications that require higher overlays.

In recent years, the requirements for more complex high-quality color images and variable text printing in the process of printing bar code marks have been increasing. This is where XAAR technology differs from other available technologies today. The wider the print head, the more information can be printed on the print head in a single trip. Moreover, when the print head width reaches 70 cm, and more information can be processed with a much smaller print head, the printing process will become faster and more accurate. The end result of using XAAR digital printing technology will be to print high quality information in color at a speed of up to 110 meters per minute. Earlier users of this technology are gaining significant advantages over their competitors in areas such as print quality, flexibility, and productivity.

Fas-Co Coders, headquartered in the United States, is one of the manufacturers of bar code marking printing equipment. It successfully integrated XAAR technology into the printing machines it manufactures. The Bud-Jet IV and Ultramark 2000 machines use the XAAR XJ128 and XJ500 printheads, respectively, for high-resolution printing. Both printers are capable of printing on porous permeable and non-porous penetrating substrates such as cartons and cans at 200 dpi resolution, and can use different inks such as oil bases, solvents, and UV curing. Similarly, other manufacturers have also recognized the benefits of XAAR printheads, such as the Danish company HS Automatic, whose XAAR XJ126, XJ128, and XJ500 print heads are used in the HSAjet printer series for bar code, logo, mail, and form printing. For other jet printers, XJ500 print heads are used for overpack coding and can simultaneously print 4 lines of text (or trade mark and bar code) at a resolution of 300 dpi.

Future code

In recent years, new coding standards have been under development, such as two-dimensional bar codes and color bar codes, both of which require higher resolution than continuous inkjet technology can provide. Obviously, this trend will stimulate more advanced coding systems to be used in the near future. In addition, drop-on-demand inkjet technology can handle almost all of the ink's ability to print magnetic codes on confidential documents, making machine interpretation far less error than optical methods. In the application of UV-curing inks, we can expect a transparent application of "micro-lens" effect (has been developed and applied in micro-machining technology), so it is highly possible to produce alternative optical coding methods, such as on the packaging box. Print disc information.

XAAR's drop-on-demand technology is increasingly becoming a mainstream technology in the area of ​​packaging and printing, especially for bar code marking and printing. Printhead technology is also rapidly improving. Larger printheads have been developed to accommodate larger overlays with higher resolution and droplet size changes to achieve higher quality. At the same time, inks are increasingly becoming more adaptable and versatile. All of these will create an exciting future for manufacturing service providers and end users in the field of packaging and printing.

Source: China Media Network

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