Large Format printing solutions 26 Oktober 2011 Moataz Salah Eldin

Large Format printing solutions26 Oktober 2011

Moataz Salah Eldin

19 april 2023Agfa Graphics: an introduction2

Digital Printing History

• The Digital Printing Revolution...

How many people realize how computers are revolutionizing the printing industry?

This revolution is called

Digital Printing.


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.


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.


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.


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.



• 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.



• Digital printing best serves the demand for: variable data printing, personalization, customization, less spoilage, faster proof cycle, smaller archival storage, quick response, just-in-time 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.


Ink-Jet Technologie

Funktion eines Continuous-Ink-Jet-Druckers

Funktion eines PiezoInk-Jet-Druckers


Colour Theory (RGB VS CMYK)


Printhead

Wave form

Printer

Substrate

Ink

Inks


Ink Jet Inks

Aqueous

Water-based

(mild) solvent

UV cureable

Different types

of inkjet inks


Image quality - drop volume – dot diameter

1007030

Spreding: diameter X 2

Resolutiedpi

Spacingµm

360 69720 351440 17360 dpi720 dpi1440 dpi








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


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.


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 uncoatedMedias.


Agfa Ink Jet Family


Anapurna Family


Anapurna M2540 FB


Agfa Jeti Family


Agfa - Jeti: UV


Agfa - Jeti: UV FTR


Agfa - Jeti: UV FTR


Agfa - Jeti: SOLVENT

EU caution shields

Umwelt-gefährlich

Giftig

Favorable production cost of final production.Possibility to print on different materials (hard solvent). No before or after treatment needed.


Agfa - Jeti: SOLVENT


CONFDENTIAL

Agfa - Jeti: Direct to Fabric

:Jeti 3324 AquaJet RTR

24 Spectra SM heads Max. width: 3.3 m Production speeds: 40 m2/hrPrints high quality at 400 dpi, 6 colorUses specially formulated water-based dispersed-dye inks

• 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.


Definitions Applications

• We are using the term „Large Format Graphics“ to define all the graphics bigger than 24 Inch – ca. 60cm


Target Markets

Application scope

• POP (Point-of-Purchase) advertising• Signage

• informational, directional, corporate, branding• Vehicle Graphics• Exhibition Graphics• Posters (indoor/outdoor)• Street Furniture• Window Graphics• Flags & Banners• Billboards• Truck Curtains• Building Wraps• GF Vinyl Banners• Aircraft Graphics• Ship Decoration


Roll to Roll: Applications

Fleet Graphics Vehicle Wraps Billboards

Architectural Wraps Point of Purchase


Backlit Displays

• Store Front Signs• Bus Shelter Ads• Cinema Backlit 3D Lenticular

• Vending Machines• Slot Machines• All Light Box Applications


Point-of-Purchase/Sales

POP (POS)


Specialty Printing

Wood Canvas

Wall CoversWindow Shades

Tiles

Lenticular


Dedicated Sign Print Media

Coroplast (Corex) Foam Board (Forex)Sintra

Direct To Plexi PolypropyleneDirect To Dibond And

Alumnium


Wide format vs. other printing methods

Offset Flexo Screen Gravure Digital

Total cost per printed m2

2007 Wide format break even

cost of ownership curve for Graphic

Screen Printing

productivity & pricing

2009 Wide format break even

100 sheets

150 sheets

:Anapurna

:M-Press 2009 Hybrid systems break even

1000 sheets

Addressable part of screen print market: 2% 4% 40% 70%

500 sheets

Break point controlled by

2007 Hybrid systems break even

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Mladen Široki, ZINA d.o.o., AGFA pisači velikog formata

www.zina.hr

PRINT DEMO CENTAR:ZINA d.o.o.Ivanićgradska 64Zagreb

Photo kvaliteta ispisa8 glava (2 x bijela + CMYKlclm)Širina: 205 cmDebljina: 45 mmBrzina: 9 – 53 m2/h

PROMOTIVNA PONUDA :ANAPURNA

PISAČA


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Large Format printing solutions 26 Oktober 2011 Moataz Salah Eldin