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Re: Ink jet ink primer
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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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