Large Format printing solutions
26 Oktober 2011
Moataz Salah Eldin

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Digital Printing History
• The Digital Printing Revolution...
How many people realize how computers are revolutionizing the printing industry?
This revolution is called
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Digital Printing History
Analogue Printing
• Before we delve into what digital printing is lets take a moment to look at Analog printing technology to better help us understand the differences.
• Traditional printing is an analog technology.
Analog is defined as a continuously varying event such as sound or pressure, while a digital signal is either on or off, thus making it a more predictable.
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How Digital Printing Works
Digital Printing
• takes a different approach assembling each image from a complex set numbers and mathematical formulas.
• These images are captured from a matrix of dots, generally called pixels, this process is called digitizing.
• The digitized image is then used to digitally controlled deposition of ink, toner or exposure to electromagnetic energy, such as light, to reproduce images.
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How Digital Printing Works
• One of the most important advantages that
Digital printing offers is a quicker response time due to its minimal press setup and it’s built in multicolor registration system.
• This eliminates many of the upfront, time consuming processes that can cause analog printing methods to have a slower turn-around time.
• Another advantage of Digital printing is the ability of offer variable printing; this means that each printed piece can have different information on it providing personalization and customization unmatched by analog processes.
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The Advantages of Digital Printing
• Digital printing technologies give the designer more options of substrates to print on due to its non-contact printing.
• This eliminates the distortion of images that occurs in analog process, like screen printing. It also requires less harsh methods of holding the substrate in the press, thereby giving more options of substrates.
• This means that substrates such as fabrics, very thin paper, and even ceramics can be safely printed on offering the customer more choices in designing.
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The Advantages of Digital Printing
• The market is driving the desire for digital printing and therefore pushing it’s development and adoption.
• Print buyers want to eliminate the risks and expenses of maintaining inventory.
• Mass and Batch printing runs are giving way to the digital printer’s ability to have shorter print runs, mass customization, and less turn-around time.
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The Advantages of Digital Printing
• Digital printing best serves the demand for: variable data printing, personalization, customization, less spoilage, faster proof cycle, smaller archival storage, quick response, just-intime delivery, and short to medium print runs.
While printers are still employing analog print methods they have the ability, with digital printing, to offer their customers more options and provide better service.
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Ink-Jet Technologie
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Funktion eines Continuous-
Ink-Jet-Druckers
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Colour Theory (RGB VS CMYK)
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Inks
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Ink Jet Inks
Different types of inkjet inks
Aqueous
Water-based
(mild) solvent
UV cureable
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Image quality - drop volume – dot diameter
Spreding: diameter X 2
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30 m
1440 dpi
70 m
720 dpi
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360 dpi
Resolutie dpi
360
720
1440
Spacing
µm
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Image quality - drop volume – dot diameter
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Image quality - drop volume – dot diameter
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Image quality - drop volume – dot diameter
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UV Printing
• UV printing is different from conventional printing in many ways. It is still ink on paper but the ink dries through a completely different process
• Instead of having solvents in the ink that evaporate into the air and absorb into the paper,
UV inks dry through a photomechanical process.
When the inks are exposed to ultraviolet lights they turn from a liquid, or paste, to a solid.
• There is significantly less evaporation of solvents and much less absorption of the ink into the Media
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UV Printing
This is advantageous for many reasons.
• One of the biggest advantages of UV printing is that there are fewer emissions of volatile organic compounds into the environment since there is no evaporation of the solvents like with conventional inks.
• Another advantage of UV printing is that the inks can dry on plastic and other non-porous substrates. Because the inks dry through a photomechanical process it is not necessary for the ink solvent to absorb into the Media.
Basically, if you can get the media through the press you can print on it on UV.
• Printers have even been known to print on substrates as unusual as wooden doors, Simi-corrugated materials.
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UV Printing
• Since UV inks dry when exposed to UV light, the inks do not have the time to soak into the paper.
• The ink dot is left sitting on top of the uncoated sheet, where it presents a cleaner less contaminated dot, ultimately giving more vibrant color.
• The key to printing with UV inks successfully lies in exposing the UV ink to enough ultraviolet energy to cure the ink while not making the substrate too brittle and also achieving an acceptable level of adherence to the substrate.
• This is extremely difficult because every different substrate has very different characteristics.
• All-in-all, UV printing is an excellent way to produce printed material on unusual substrates and on uncoated
Medias.
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Agfa Ink Jet Family
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Anapurna Family
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Anapurna M2540 FB
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Agfa Jeti Family
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Agfa - Jeti: SOLVENT
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Giftig Umweltgefährlich
EU caution shields
Favorable production cost of final production.
Possibility to print on different materials (hard solvent).
No before or after treatment needed.
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Agfa - Jeti: SOLVENT
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Agfa - Jeti: Direct to Fabric
:Jeti 3324 AquaJet RTR
24 Spectra SM heads
Max. width: 3.3 m
Production speeds: 40 m 2 /hr
Prints high quality at 400 dpi, 6 color
Uses specially formulated water-based dispersed-dye inks
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• cost effective and environment friendly alternative to the solvent based textile technologies
• Unique type of a printer as it is the only printer in its class, which has a built-in heat-press.
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Definitions  Applications
• We are using the term „Large Format Graphics“ to define all the graphics bigger than 24 Inch – ca. 60cm
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Target Markets
Application scope
• POP (Point-of-Purchase) advertising
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Signage
• informational, directional, corporate, branding
• Vehicle Graphics
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Exhibition Graphics
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Posters (indoor/outdoor)
• Street Furniture
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Window Graphics
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Flags & Banners
• Billboards
• Truck Curtains
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Building Wraps
• GF Vinyl Banners
• Aircraft Graphics
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Ship Decoration
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Roll to Roll: Applications
Fleet Graphics
Vehicle Wraps
Billboards
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Architectural Wraps
Point of Purchase
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Backlit Displays
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• Store Front Signs
• Bus Shelter Ads
• Cinema Backlit 3D Lenticular
• Vending Machines
• Slot Machines
• All Light Box Applications
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Point-of-Purchase/Sales
POP (POS)
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Specialty Printing
Tiles
Wood Canvas
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Lenticular Window Shades Wall Covers
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Dedicated Sign Print Media
Coroplast (Corex)
Foam Board (Forex)
Sintra
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Direct To Plexi
Direct To Dibond And
Alumnium
Polypropylene
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Wide format vs. other printing methods
Offset Flexo Screen Gravure Digital
Total cost per printed m2 cost of ownership curve for Graphic
Screen Printing
2007 Wide format break even
:Anapurna
:M-Press
2009 Wide format break even
2007 Hybrid systems break even
2009 Hybrid systems break even
Break point controlled by productivity & pricing
Addressable part of screen print market:
100 sheets
150 sheets
500 sheets
1000 sheets
2% 4% 40% 70%
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www.zina.hr
PRINT DEMO CENTAR:
ZINA d.o.o.
Ivanićgradska 64
Zagreb
PROMOTIVNA PONUDA
:ANAPURNA PISAČA
Photo kvaliteta ispisa
8 glava (2 x bijela + CMYKlclm)
Širina: 205 cm
Debljina: 45 mm
Brzina: 9 – 53 m2/h
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Mladen Široki, ZINA d.o.o., AGFA pisači velikog formata

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