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Performance Solutions


Ikonics works with a host of companies in the specialist printing industry designing tightly engineered imaging solutions. Tony Bergstedt discusses a recent co-operative technology development to optimise system performance

Year
2010
Company
IKONICS Corporation
Author
Tony Bergstedt
Specialist Printing Worldwide
Categories
Subject
Chemicals
Colour
Control Systems
CTS/CTP
Future
Inks
Machinery & Equipment
Regulation
Software
Squeegee
Substrates
Sustainability
Printing Type
Digital
Industry
Graphic

Development of a successful printer-ink substrate suite often involves a complex interplay between these three systems in order to provide optimum system performance.

Ideally, all of these systems are developed concurrently to provide the most efficient path to the end-point of a quality product offering.

In the best of scenarios, development is undertaken with specific, quantitative performance specifications in mind.

In many instances, however, the overall system is not built entirely from scratch, and one or more of the system components may be effectively “locked in”, dictating the conditions which the remaining component/s must accommodate.

Such was the case in a recent development project initiated for a major ink manufacturer looking for an improved primer coating material for paper label stock to complement their new suite of UV inks……

Performance Solutions

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