07.14.15
On June 24-25, 2015 the IMI Inkjet Technology showcase conference was held in Munich. During this event, a company field trip to adphos Digital Printing GmbH in Bruckmühl near Munich took place to see its drying and inkJet technology integration.
At the adphos headquarters, besides a walk through the manufacturing area, three live demonstrations illustrating the benefits of adphosNIR technology were presented.
The first was a comparison of the drying of water-based inks on thin plastic films compared the performance of midwave IR drying units with adphosNIR. The adphosNIR dryer reached complete drying of the fluid in one-third of the time. In addition, the adphosNIR demonstrated instantaneous power adjustment capability. It was also seen that the high residual heat of the midwave IR dryer unit caused thermal damage of the plastic film once the transport was stopped, whereas the film was not visibly affected by the adphosNIR.
The second live demonstration was to show that adphos can successfully dry process color inks onto film. The drying of simultaneously applied, water-based black and yellow pigmented inks with adphosNIR was presented. The third demonstration showed that adphosNIR is also applicable in flexo printing processes.
The highlight of the live demonstrations was the running of a roll-to-roll pilot line with a Kodak Prosper S10 Imprinting System onto 35 µm pre-coated OPP plastic film using an adphosNIR dryer. Due to the Kodak Stream InkJet technology with its low glycol content level ink, in conjunction with the adphosNIR drying technology, high print quality, high coverage water-based ink can be dried onto temperature sensitive plastic films and can therefore substitute UV curable inks in applications where previously this was impossible.
At the adphos headquarters, besides a walk through the manufacturing area, three live demonstrations illustrating the benefits of adphosNIR technology were presented.
The first was a comparison of the drying of water-based inks on thin plastic films compared the performance of midwave IR drying units with adphosNIR. The adphosNIR dryer reached complete drying of the fluid in one-third of the time. In addition, the adphosNIR demonstrated instantaneous power adjustment capability. It was also seen that the high residual heat of the midwave IR dryer unit caused thermal damage of the plastic film once the transport was stopped, whereas the film was not visibly affected by the adphosNIR.
The second live demonstration was to show that adphos can successfully dry process color inks onto film. The drying of simultaneously applied, water-based black and yellow pigmented inks with adphosNIR was presented. The third demonstration showed that adphosNIR is also applicable in flexo printing processes.
The highlight of the live demonstrations was the running of a roll-to-roll pilot line with a Kodak Prosper S10 Imprinting System onto 35 µm pre-coated OPP plastic film using an adphosNIR dryer. Due to the Kodak Stream InkJet technology with its low glycol content level ink, in conjunction with the adphosNIR drying technology, high print quality, high coverage water-based ink can be dried onto temperature sensitive plastic films and can therefore substitute UV curable inks in applications where previously this was impossible.