PREFINAS - Printhead Refurbishment Factory In A Suitcase

PREFINAS - 手提箱里的打印头翻新工厂

• 批准号: 87035
• 金额: $ 8.72万
• 依托单位: CAMSCIENCE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=87035
• 关键词: PREFINAS; Printhead; Refurbishment; Factory; Suitcase

The remanufacturing of industral printheads used point of purchase and point of sale retail, and, in packaging and labelling is the most environmentally friendly and efficient method of supplying demand for these parts and an estimate of CO2 saving by remanufacturing and testing these printheads is 5 kg per remanufactured printhead.Market has shown that commercial printing globally has been severely impacted by COVID-19 with many print shops stopping production completely. However, packaging and label printing has seen an increase in production above normal demand. So corrugated packaging, labels, cartons and flexible packaging volumes have increased. Online retail has increased, increasing print volumes, more single use packaging used for hygiene. Reshoring is taking place. All these growing printing markets use industrial inkjet printheads that periodically require replacement when they stop performing, or a remanufactured, tested and returned to production.Camscience have decided to pivot the business and entirely refocus on the needs of the industrial inkjet packaging and labelling industry. As part of our market research beginning May 2020 we reached out to the packaging and labelling industry and as a result of this learnt that the industry wanted a cost effective remanufacturing and test solution that was compact (that could sit on the back seat of a car), and did not take up valuable manufacturing space, was light-weight so could be carried by operators who were not physically strong (females, smaller stature operatives).As a result of this research Camscience have developed the PREFINAS system Prefinas - Printhead Refurbishment Factory in a Suitcase is an integrated system comprising an industrial printhead cleaning technology (equipment, processes and chemistries) and a printhead testing system comprising a miniaturised industrial printing, whose printing ink is also an adaption of the cleaning fluid so that printhead flushing between cleaning and printing cycles is eliminated. The Prefinas system is designed to fit in the luggage compartment, or back seat of a car, light in weight so that it can be carried and moved without the need for substantial strength. It is also cost effective, and an entire factory in a suitcase can be purchased for the price or refurbishing 15 printheads.

用于购买点和销售零售点的工业打印头的再制造，包装和标签是满足这些部件需求的最环保和最有效的方法，通过再制造和测试这些打印头，估计每个再制造打印头可节省5公斤二氧化碳。市场显示，全球商业打印受到COVID-19的严重影响。19许多印刷厂完全停止生产。然而，包装和标签印刷的产量增长超过了正常需求。因此瓦楞纸包装、标签、纸箱和软包装的数量都有所增加。在线零售增加，增加了印刷量，更多的一次性包装用于卫生。复活正在发生。所有这些不断增长的印刷市场都使用工业喷墨打印头，这些打印头在停止工作时需要定期更换，或者重新制造，测试并恢复生产。Camscience决定将业务转向，并完全重新关注工业喷墨包装和标签行业的需求。作为我们从2020年5月开始的市场研究的一部分，我们接触了包装和标签行业，因此了解到该行业需要一种具有成本效益的紧凑型再制造和测试解决方案（可以坐在汽车的后座上），不占用宝贵的制造空间，重量轻，所以可以由身体不强壮的操作员携带作为这项研究的结果，Camscience开发了PREFINAS系统Prefinas -手提箱中的打印头翻新工厂是一个集成系统，包括工业打印头清洁技术（设备、工艺和化学品）和打印头测试系统，其包括自动化工业打印，其印刷油墨也是清洁流体的适配，从而消除了清洁和印刷循环之间的印刷头冲洗。Prefinas系统的设计是为了安装在行李舱或汽车后座上，重量轻，因此可以携带和移动，而不需要很大的力量。这也是成本效益，整个工厂在一个手提箱可以购买的价格或翻新15个打印头。