Easibind - Developing a high-speed digital inkjet print bridge head for flexible and rigid substrates

Easibind - 开发适用于柔性和刚性基材的高速数字喷墨打印桥头

• 批准号: 720258
• 金额: $ 22.54万
• 依托单位: EASI-BIND INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Development of Prototype
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=720258
• 关键词: Easibind; Developing; speed; digital; inkjet

We are developing a novel high speed digital inkjet print bridge head for printing ontoflexible and rigid substrates from 200 – 1000 microns in thickness. High speed digital printing is a growing segment of the print market because:- the market is moving toward just in time production requiring smaller volume printruns with fast turnaround and- it enables product/packaging differentiation and personalisation which digital printersare able to produce economicallyThis versatile approach to printing is also leading the adoption of new substrates, particularly plastics and synthetics, to provide further differentiation through aesthetic qualities. However, no high speed digital printer can cope with this variation is substrate thickness at present.Our approach is the development of a “floating” print bridge head that will automaticallyadjust to the thickness of the substrate and the use of a precision engineered print bed that can move the substrate to an accuracy within 5 microns. These two innovations enable us to provide high speed, large format printing at up to 5,600 sheets per hour whilst maintaining fine print quality. We will achieve this using state of the art components from world-renowned OEMs.The project will output a commissioned alpha press that can serve as a demonstrator to the print industry. From this we expect to attract interest and early adopters for the beta model, with a target to sell 50 commercial machines within 5 years of project end.Easibind have a track record of working with the latest technology from OEMs and havesought the expertise of two UK SMEs to bring this project to fruition.

我们正在开发一种新型的高速数字喷墨打印桥头，用于在200 - 1000微米厚的柔性和刚性基材上打印。高速数字印刷是印刷市场的一个不断增长的部分，因为：-市场正在朝着及时生产的方向发展，需要快速周转的小批量印刷机-它使产品/包装差异化和个性化，数字印刷机能够经济地生产这种通用的印刷方法也导致采用新的基材，特别是塑料和合成材料，通过美学品质提供进一步的差异化。然而，目前还没有高速数字打印机能够科普这种承印物厚度的变化。我们的方法是开发一种“浮动”打印桥头，它将自动调整承印物的厚度，并使用一种精密设计的打印床，可以将承印物移动到5微米以内的精度。这两项创新使我们能够以每小时高达5，600张的速度提供高速大幅面打印，同时保持良好的打印质量。我们将使用来自世界知名OEM的最先进的组件来实现这一目标。该项目将输出一台委托的阿尔法印刷机，可以作为印刷行业的示范。由此，我们预计将吸引对测试版模型的兴趣和早期采用者，目标是在项目结束后5年内销售50台商用机器。Easibind拥有与OEM最新技术合作的良好记录，并拥有两家英国中小企业的专业知识，以使该项目取得成果。