[China Packaging Network News] 2014 digital printing technology continued strong growth. From the perspective of suppliers in recent years, both Fuji Xerox and Founder of the early transition to the digital printing market, and Konica Minolta, Kodak, Fujifilm, and Komori, which were subsequently “killedâ€, may be early 2014. Heidelberg announced in China that it will join hands with Ricoh to jointly compete in the digital printing market. Or, at the 5th China International Print Exhibition, Manroland and Fuji Xerox announced their joint efforts... In the printing market, strategies are shifting, digital printing processes, and colors Management, printing technology and later technologies are also being refined at the same time.
Printing equipment
Agfa Digital Printing Personalization Application
In the field of industrial printing, Agfa is known for providing solutions to the prepress and newspaper markets. In addition, Agfa has been active in the field of wide format printing in recent years.
What Agfa thinks is the focus of future printing companies?
Agfa: We have always regarded ourselves as an integrated solution partner for printing companies. In addition to providing printing systems, print heads, and ink services, we also provide high-performance workflows for companies that specialize in wide-format applications. - Asanti, it is only through this one platform that it is possible to realize the distribution control of different printers at the same time. In addition, in the past two years, we have also paid more attention to the UV-curing printing system. We have also developed a special industrial printing system for our customers. With a width of 1.6 meters and four-color printing, we can better help our customers. Complete personalized print jobs.
Kodak's Digital Printing Innovation Road
Kodak is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of print communications and packaging production solutions. It provides a wide range of products, system solutions and service programs for the global printing and media industry and packaging manufacturing plants. The products include inkjet digital printing machines, inkjet printing systems, electrophotographic color digital printing machines, offset printing and flexographic CTP plate making. Equipment, digital offset and flexo plates.
At present, to what extent does Kodak add technology to its own electrophotographic and inkjet printing systems?
Kodak: Each digital printing technology has specific advantages and suits different customers. Our single-color/four-color Prosper ink jet printers have achieved high production quality at high speeds, and they have a low single sheet cost, allowing them to print small quantities of prints and advertisements, magazines, mail, books, newspapers and transactions. Documents and so on. The advantage of the electrophotographic technology of the NexPress digital press is that it is suitable for printing a wide range of substrates and has a variety of unique online finishing options. At the same time, Prosper printing solutions using inkjet technology use nanotechnology-based aqueous pigment inks that can print uncoated paper as well as glossy and glossy coated paper at speeds up to 300 meters per minute.
Fujifilm Launches New Jet Press 720S Printing System
On November 15, 2014, at the Fifth China International Print Exhibition, Fujifilm launched the Jet Press 720S, an upgraded version of the Jet Press 720.
What features have been specifically optimized for the new Jet Press 720S compared to the Jet Press 720?
Fujifilm: After the launch of the Jet Press 720, we maintained close communication with our customers. In the development of the Jet Press 720S inkjet digital press, we optimized the inkjet ink, the surface of the printing cylinder, and the vacuum control of the cylinder to further improve the quality. In addition, the printing quality is improved by reducing the paper deformation at the sites where the dots cover a larger area; each print sheet is inspected by using a CCD sensor, and necessary corrections are transmitted to the print head, and the repositioned embedded sensor will not recognize the image. A single nozzle is evacuated and necessary corrections are made to the resulting print non-uniformity to ensure print image quality.
KBA Rota JETL: Digital flexibility with industrial performance
KBA launched a new Rota JETL series of high-volume inkjet printing equipment at the end of September 2014. This series can adapt to flexible market demands.
What are the highlights of the new Rota JETL series compared to the Rota JET76 high-speed inkjet rotary machine launched at drupa 2012?
KBA: We continue to supply the RotaJET76, but the width of the machine's tape cannot meet the needs of the book, direct mail, advertising, magazine, newspaper, and industrial printing market segments. In addition, digital printing market requirements are changing over time. Previous RotaJET76 had a monthly production of about 85 million sheets (A4), while the monthly production of RotaJETL series equipment reached between 116 to 174 million sheets (A4).
Canon: Synergy of the Best Solution
Canon, a leading global provider of digital imaging solutions for the consumer and business sectors. It sees itself as a technology and business partner of the printing industry. At present, the latter is getting more and more important because the entire printing and communications industry is now in transition.
Due to the changes in communication methods and the rapid development of new media, printing service providers are experiencing increasing pressure. What can Canon do as a manufacturer?
Canon: Changing from a print service provider to a communications service provider. This sounds simple in theory, but it is actually very complicated. This involves the three main areas of hardware and the corresponding workflow that we are engaged in.
In wide printing. We have toner and ink-based patented large format technologies, including the new Océ Arizon 6100 series, the Océ Color Wave 650 and 900 series, and the Canonimage PROGRAFiPF 6400S and iPF 8400S drivers.
In professional printing. Patented Gemini technology for high-quality black-and-white printing, direct toner printing with consistent black and white print quality, and high-efficiency color technology with high-resolution printing for paper media and envelopes.
In commercial printing, high-efficiency printing systems have prompted customers to change their reading habits and marketing methods, while at the same time increasing the frequency with which customers use personalized materials. In response, we have developed a simplex/duplex continuous-feed solution based on toner imaging, such as the Vario Stream 4000, or the use of new pigments, ink-based technologies for the next-generation printheads, and new Drying unit, such as Image Stream3500.
Postpress
RIMA-SYSTEM's Digital Printing Experience
RIMA-SYSTEM has become the world's leading supplier of post-press processing equipment with over 10,000 units of annual sales. The printers on five continents use RIMA-SYSTEM equipment daily to produce newspapers, magazines, books and advertisements. These devices range from simple cross stackers to fully automated machines including robotic stacking. RIMA-SYSTEM has successfully transplanted its extensive traditional rotary printing experience to digital printing.
More and more books begin to use digital printing production. What kind of solution does Rima-System have?
RIMA-SYSTEM: For the production of books, we can make book cores for supplementary spine gluing, which has reached the level of quality of the perfect binder. In the continuous production, the supplementary spine of each signature or book can be individually and variably controlled. For example, in the sewing and binding process, a single job can also be created.
How does RIMA-SYSTEM solve the problem of the speed of digital printing when changing jobs?
RIMA-SYSTEM: In response to digital printing solutions, we focused on the flexibility of changeover so that the system does not need to shut down when it is changed. Similarly, we can change the dimensions online and without the machine decelerating. Therefore, the short version below 100 can be produced continuously.
Color Management
Color Logic's Best Color and Personalization Files
More and more companies have established production on high-end digital printing, thus increasing the need to provide optimal and reliable color quality. However, calibration and optimization of digital printing systems are not available to any vendor. Color Logic uses ZePrA technology to provide everything needed for perfect color output.
Why is Ze PrA so interesting in digital printing?
Co Lorlogic: Ze PrA is a fast and highly professional PDF color server that has been integrated into Co PrA software, high-efficiency ICC printers and device connection profiles, and analyzer software to optimize print fluctuations.
The daily print quality fluctuations of the digital printing system can be solved by calibrating and updating the ICC profile. Now dealing with any fluctuations can be made without the expense of making new printer files and device connection files, and these fluctuations can be compensated with the help of small print control strips and analyzer software. Using the correction file made by the analyzer software in the ZePrA color server, there is no need to change other color management adjustments, which is simple and convenient.
Supplies articles
Xeikon Introduces New Technology for Liquid Colorants
Since 2010, Xeikon has focused on four markets: large format posters, wallpapers, banners, and commercial printing of small batch labels. In addition, in the last two years, Xeikon has also flourished in the area of ​​folding cartons and direct mail printing.
What are the advantages of Xeikon's latest liquid coloring technology?
Xeikon: Afterwards, we will launch “Trillium Liquid Colorant Technologyâ€, which is an eco-safe, oil-enriched colorant product that can significantly increase the printing speed and has high economic efficiency for large-volume printing operations. , can significantly reduce printing costs. At present, a French customer has already started using it.