Re: Ink jet ink primer
Re: Ink jet ink primer
- Subject: Re: Ink jet ink primer
- From: Stephen Lawrence <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:00:52 +0000
On 2 Jan 2006, at 14:03, Jim Rich wrote:
Steve,
I am interested in various technical aspects of inkjet technologies
that
have the potential to touch most all segments from amateur home
user types,
to other professionals such as photographers, sign makers to
prepress. I
am doing research for a book. I wanted to be sure I have a good
overview
as well as a the essential details about things such as aqueous
inks vs
solvent inks, the fundamental differences between heat and
vibration head
technology, the fundamental differences between consumer inkjet
products
and professional products etc. And for those of you have replied
to me
offline, the Mastering Digitial Printing book is a very good resource.
Thanks
Jim Rich
Hi Jim,
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you, busy times.
Most of the sources I've seen tend to concentrate on one aspect such
as specific markets, head or ink technologies. The nearest single
source I am aware of is "Inkjet Technology and Product Development
Strategies", by Steve Pond (a Research Fellow at the digital printing
consultancy Torrey Pines Research) <http://www.tpr.com/index3.htm?
Pubbook.htm&2>. Two caveats though. Firstly, its pricey at $295.
Secondly, although I've heard good things about it I have never got
around to obtaining a copy so can't personally vouch for it. That
said, TPR know their stuff and it ought to contain more information
than you'll ever need. From the TOC I see it covers continuous inkjet
as well as the more unusual drop-on-demand (DoD) technologies. I
suspect that there are other such books but this is the one I'm aware
of.
If you would rather be taught the nitty gritty I've heard good things
about the IMI inkjet courses. These take places yearly in both the US
and Europe and you can find details here <www.imieurope.com>. The
IS&T conferences often also have good tutorials on inkjet technology.
Beyond that there are plenty of disparate sources. On the Industrial
side I've seen some good articles on technologies such as continuous
inkjet from PIRA International <http://www.piranet.com/>. Industrial
inkjet is enjoying quick growth (page-wide arrays are going to make
industrial and production printing real interesting in the next seven
years, not to forget bio-jet and mat-jet of course) and many of the
players (head companies and integration consultancies) publish
presentations on their websites. The presentations can be a good way
of pairing head specs with markets (what kind of dot size is
important in textile printing say) and to see what new applications
are being worked on. For example, the two big inkjet/head technology
companies Xaar <www.xaar.co.uk> and Spectra <http://www.dimatix.com/
divisions/piezoelectric-print-heads/index.asp>. It's worth knowing
that there are serveral licensees of Xaar's technology including
Brother, Konica-Minolta and Toshiba. Googling them will also provide
you with technical and market information. Integration companies
include Vivid <www.vividprinters.com>, iTi <www.imagingtechnology-
corp.com> and IMPIKA <www.impika.com>, but there are many more.
In the mainstream, the IS&T can be a useful source of information as
amongst other practitioners Canon, Epson and HP regularly present at
their conferences. Of course much of it is highly technical, but
there are often some nice overviews. Members can get PDFs of many of
the conference articles for free online. As an example here's a free
article that gives an overview of inkjet technology <http://
www.imaging.org/resources/web_tutorials/inkjet.cfm>, though it's
dated. They used to do a good series of books, called "Recent
Progress in X", that collected recent work in specific areas, but the
series doesn't seem to have been updated in a while, here's the last
IJ one <www.imaging.org/store/physpub.cfm?seriesid=6&pubid=92>
Drop me a private line, if you have more questions and good luck with
the book!
Regards
Steve Lawrence
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