Packaging and printing companies such as food, beverages, tobacco, cable, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics need to digitize frequently or at high speed. Barcodes, patterns, or text are printed on the product or on the outer carton. Practice has proved that apply the small print printer mentioned in this article. Cartons, large size printing machines, etc. can greatly increase the production efficiency and the sharpness of the printed texts, thereby enhancing the quality of the products and enabling the company to win a broader market and better economic benefits.
Backdating the history of printing on numbers, bar codes, patterns, or text on products, before the invented non-contact continuous inkjet printers, screen printing machines, pad printers, and even more primitive mechanical roller dies were used to complete the printing. The result of this is the poor clarity of the text, which takes time and effort. The production efficiency is low, and because the quality of the product is lost due to the low printing quality, more and more customers and consumers are lost, causing the manufacturer to suffer losses. So urgently need advanced equipment to replace them.
After the efforts of scientists and many scientific and technological workers, the small-character ink jet printer and the carton-printing large-word machine were successively developed. At present, these non-contact continuous inkjet printers have become the first choice to change the status quo behind. Small print printers are mainly used for smaller texts. Digital and graphic prints on sub-products. Carton printing large size machine, as the name suggests, used to be large text. Numbers and graphics are printed on the outer carton. These two major categories of non-contact continuous inkjet printing machine compared to the previous printing equipment and technology, at least the following eight common advantages:
(1) The writing is clear and lasting: it is controlled by the computer and the required numbers and words are printed accurately. Patterns and bar codes, etc.
(2) High degree of automation: automatic date realization. Lots and numbers were changed to realize the unmanned operation of the printing process.
(3) Wide range of applications: Match any production line. Can be printed on plastic, glass, paper, wood, rubber, metal and other materials, different shapes of the surface of the trademark, date of manufacture, description, batch number and so on.
(4) The programming is convenient: The information such as the required figures, characters, patterns, and lines can be input through the computer or the editor, and the information can be changed. Only a few keys are required to complete the process.
(5) Adjustable character size: The font width and height can be adjusted in a suitable range, and bold fonts can also be used.
(6) The number of printing lines can be adjusted: the number of printing lines can be adjusted in 1-5 lines, and can be freely matched.
(7) Printing speed is extremely fast: 800 characters/second or 120 meters/minute can be printed at the fastest.
(8) Satisfying special requirements: Invisible ink printing, perfect printing of invisible information or anti-counterfeit identifier on the product.
It is precisely because the non-contact small-character inkjet printer and the carton inkjet printer are the crystallization of computers and high-tech. Its reliability is very high, the software version is easy to upgrade, the cost of printing once on the product is very low, and it has the above significant advantage. Therefore, small-size inkjet printers and carton printers can be widely used in various industries such as food, beverages, alcohol and tobacco, packaging, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, electronics, mechanical parts and cables. Many well-known inkjet printers also have historical failure records. Even if a failure occurs, maintenance personnel can quickly find the cause of the failure and quickly resolve it.
At present, the famous small-size inkjet printers on the market include Metronic, Metec, VIDEO JET, Videojet, Imaje, Imaje, and DOMINO, British Domino. EBS Germany EBC, its performance and quality are also quite good. The well-known carton printers are EBS Germany, BEIJIN, and LINX.
Inkjet printer repair and adjustment
1, inkjet printing principle
The more advanced equipment, the higher the requirements for maintenance personnel. Prior to servicing inkjet printers, it is necessary to understand the principle of inkjet printing, carefully read the manual for its use and maintenance, and it is advisable to go through the training of a full-time maintenance engineer of the inkjet printer. The following uses a small-sized printer as an example to introduce the principle of ink jet printing: Under high pressure, the ink enters the spray gun. The spray gun is equipped with a crystal oscillator. The vibration frequency is about 62.5 kHz. After the ink is sprayed, a fixed interval is formed. At the same time, the charging pole is charged. The charged ink dots fly off the high voltage electrode and fall off to form a dot matrix on the printed surface. The dots that do not make characters are not charged, so they do not deflect. They are directly injected into the recovery tank and recycled. The dots of ink printed on the surface of the printing material are arranged in a row and they may be full, empty, or in-between. The movement of the object (or the movement of the head) perpendicular to the deflection direction of the ink dots allows the columns to be spaced.
The difference between the principle of the large-size printer and the small-sized printer is that the large-sized machine gun is equipped with a micro-shaped solenoid valve that can only be opened and closed at high speed and is amorphous. The text or graphics to be printed are processed by the computer board and passed through the output board. And output a series of 7 sets of electrical signals to the 7 micro-shaped solenoid valve, so that the ink dot printing is formed on the surface of the printed dot matrix, forming a text. Numbers or graphics.
Proficiency in using the printer's program menu, especially the SERVICE menu, is very helpful in quickly diagnosing its failure.
Development of inkjet printing
Although the aforementioned small-size printers and carton printers have excellent print performance, the innovative spirit of the world’s scientists and scientists has created the world’s most advanced laser printer. The following uses the Solarjet laser printer as an example to introduce the development of inkjet printers.