Professional Documents
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seminar
by
Gerhard Löffler
For
Screenprint Co. MultiNr, Romania on 19. 1. 2005
Contents
1.0 Preface
2.0 Chemical structure
3.0 Process of polymerisation
4.0 UV-curing-systems
5.0 Printquality-check
6.0 Safety
7.0 Trouble-Shooting
1.0 Preface
• Container printing
• Labels
• Highgloss laquers
2.0 Chemical structure
Technical specfications
• Curing in millisecounds
• = high productionrates
• compact and small UV-curing-stations
• = development of full-color-machines
with an low requirement of space
2.0 Chemical structure
Technical specfications
• High glossgrade
• In-line-processing
• No solvents = no pollution of the
working-area-air
• = no air-pollution-problems with the
laws for enviremental-protections
2.0 Chemical structure
Technical specfications
additives additives
pigments/extender pigments/extender
monomers solvents
photo-initiators hardener
oligomers/
resins
prepolymers
2.3 Chemical structures
~ 12 µm ~ 12 µm
• composing of a UV-Screen-printing-ink
monomers UV-photo-initiators synergists
UV-Screen-printing-ink
prepolymers/oligomers inhibitors/additves
pigments/extender/mattpastes
3.0 Curingprocess on
UV-Screen printing inks
• UV-exposure have the energy to start
up the reaction
• Forming on “free radicals”
• Chain reaction begins
• Polymerization of the inkfilm
• Complex chemical reaction finished,
strong chemical network
UV-Curing printed
inkfilm
° monomers
R
• photo-initiators
R R R prepolymers
UV-curing
° monomers
• photo-initiators
R prepolymers
• free radicals
UV-curing polymerization
v Chainreaction starts up
Polymerization off the
R R
R ink film
° monomers
• photoinitiators
R prepolymeres
• free radicals
UV-curing
v chemical reaction
finished
R R
R strong chemical
network
pure adhesive ink-
° UV Monomer adhesion
• Photoinitiator
R Präpolymere
3.0 UV-curing process
• Reflectorsystems
Focus, halffocus, multifocus, diffus,
Dichroid
• UV-Lamps
80-300 W/cm, medium-pressure-
Mercury-Vapour Lamps
• coolingsystems
4.1 UV-curingsystems
• focus-system: focuspoint 25 mm
4.2 UV-curingsystems
• halffocus-system: focuspoint 37 mm
temp. - 20 %
4.3 UV-curingsystems
• Multifocus-system: more focuspoints
temp. - 40 %
low power
4.4 UV-curingsystems
• not focussed (nitrogen dryer)
no focuspoint
low temperature
.
4.5 UV-curingsystems
• Coolingsystems
Air-cooling-system
(inside or outside of the reflector)
Water-cooling-system
(inside or outside of the refelctor)
4.7 UV-curing-systems
• UV-curing system
Lamps (1 or 2 UV-Lamps)
power consumption (in Watt/cm)
counter for run-hours
( in general about 1000 hours, vary from
maintence and cleaning, reflectorsystem- and
type, manufactorer and quality, cooling system
5.2 Control of the printing quality
• ink application
condition: even and regular ink application
screen frame: form und profil/wall
strengthness, select for high screen tension
(>18 N/cm)
Slope-profile reduces delay of frame
5.3 Control of the printing quality
• screen
condition:
High-tech screens with 140 up to 180
threads/cm for high screen tensions
(>18 N/cm) “S”- (small) threads facilitate a
optimized easy ink-flow
2/2 coatings with IR-drying
or Direct/Indirect system
5.4 Control of the printing quality
• print-squeegee
condition:
o o
hardness between 75 and 85 Shore A
o
squeegee degree ca. 70
5.5 Control of the printing quality
• squeegee pressure
condition:
princip of “kiss-printing”
in general; less pressure as possible and
just enough for a perfect printresult
5.6 Control of the printing quality
• Substrate:
big influence for the print result:
depending from
kind of material (PE, PP, PC)
thickness/flexibility/sensitivness
color/surface
Pre-treatment/printing-machine
6.0 Test methods at the ink film
• Over-curing/color scale
Expierences
Marabu
Thank You