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Revolution Of Digital Printing

What Is Digital Printing

Digital Printing is a printing process where a digital image is printed directly on to a medium without the
Use of intermediate materials such as printing plates. In analogues printing methods including lithography
And flexography , printing plates must be produced and and continuously replaced

History Of Digital Printing

Mid ‘80s – Office black and white laser printers become available
In the mid ‘80s, laser printers first started to appear in offices. The technology had been developed for a
couple of decades, but the size and cost of the technology meant that they were only used in a handful of
companies before the mid ‘80s. Xerox, Canon, Apple, HP, IBM and others quickly brought laser printers
onto the market.
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Mid-late ‘80s – Desktop publishing emerges
To go with the new hardware, software was developed that enabled businesses and
consumers to print and publish their own digital files. For the first time, offices could
quickly and cheaply print files and make simple changes to page layouts, without having
to ask a professional company to do it for them. However, print remained extremely
costly, and few companies could afford to print in-house.

1988 – First inkjet printer for consumers launched

In 1988, Hewlett Packard marketed an inkjet for home use. Although the technology had
been around for a decade or so, this was the first time that it was successfully sold as a
consumer product. During the technology’s development, there had been numerous
technical hurdles to overcome, including improving ink efficiency, preventing the nozzle
from becoming clogged with dried ink and controlling the flow of ink to the page. Print
companies introduced liquid ink cartridges

2000
In 2000 the Hewlett Packard Company invested in the Indigo, and a year later acquired the
remaining shares. Digital print had risen to account for 18% of all printing by 2016.HP
predicts that digital printing will continue to move beyond commercial printing to
publishing and packaging, becoming faster and designed to handle more types of printing in
the future.
Xerography method:

The basic xerography process makes uses of

electrostatic charge to create the image, to then
use light from the image to remove charge
selectively, and then apply a toner to the
remnant charge. The toner must be fixed to the
paper using a thermal process. Figure 18.6.
Printing/copying machine
Inkjet
• An inkjet printer is a computer peripheral that produces hard copies of a text
document or photo by spraying droplets of ink onto paper.
• A typical inkjet printer can produce color printing copies with a resolution of
1200 x 1440 dpi. This is high enough for printing photos larger than 5 x 7 inches
• However, for a project requiring high print quality on a larger scale, there are
inkjet printers that provide up to 5760 x 1440 dpi.

Subsrate Used In Ink Jet printer

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) are two common polymeric
substrates used for inkjet printing of electronic devices

Ink used for Ink jet

Liquid ink is most often used in inkjet printers and can be found in either dye-based or
pigmented forms. Solid Ink. Some printers use solid ink instead of liquid ink. This is a
waxy ink with a consistency similar to a crayon.
Technologies of large format
• Aqueous:-
Thermal or piezo inkjet printer using an ink known as aqueoses or water-based.The term water base is a
generally accepted misnomer
• Solvent :-
This term is used to described any ink that is not water based.Piezo inkjet printers whose inks use
petroleum by product such as an acetone like carrier liquid
• Dye sublimation:-
Ink are diffused into the special color print media to produced continoues tone print of phoography
quality
• UV
Piezo Inkjet whose ink are UV-curable (dry when cured with UV light).The resulting prints are
waterproof,embosed &vibrant.Any media materials can be used in this tcahnologies
Large format printer
• Large format printer are generally accepted to be any computer controlled printing machine
• Printer support a maximum print roll width of between 18 to 100 inches (460 and 2,540 mm)
• Printers with capacities over 100 in wide are considered super-wide or grant format
• Wide-format printers are usually designed for printing onto a roll of print media that feeds increnally
during the printing process,rather than onto individuals sheets.
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