HP technology in industry - will it work for you?
As a technician in industrial printing for many years, I looked at the industries and develop technologies for most improve print quality and reduce maintenance and cost per print. The most recent addition to the field has been the use of cartridges for HP printers standard product marking and coding outer casing. This technology and most of its features have been developed in the printing industry on large canvases and industry dissemination of address information.
Control is the key
The downside to this printing technology is there are too many things that need to align for quality printing. The trident current and print engines Zar one row multiple nozzles. With the system of the HP style ink cartridge itself has two channels next to each other and the second row of nozzles exactly need to print on the first row of nozzles or a ghost or blurred printing is created. This is much less evident in printing text, but can be a disaster when printing graphic images or barcodes. Most manufacturers have included the ability to disable a set of nozzles 150 DPI vs 300 dpi. Printing with a single channel license is half the night and if a nozzle in the cartridge does not block or a clear line will be present in print.
The second alignment comes into play when more than half characters or inch high bar codes to be printed. This is achieved by stacking a plurality of cartridges adjacent to each other in a configuration gradually higher. This requires the second printing of printing information to be perfectly synchronized to match the previous print and so on for each additional toner cartridges. Unlike an ink-jet ink of origin where the feed of paper is controlled, and the speed of the print cartridge and the position is controlled in a manufacturing environment of the cartridge is stopped and printed on the roll material.
The ink cartridge has little or no "throw distance", so that the print head must be placed very close to the printed material. Again on a Web application or a vacuum table This is easily achieved. However, on a conveyor box or crate must be properly aligned the printheads for quality printing. If cases or boxes are not properly constructed and filled to maintain a square profile, they will often take on the printhead or drag the passage and printing. Remember all the time and alignment I mentioned above? The print alignment is controlled only by the timing of the print cartridges. If dredges or changes speed the time is lost and all these alignments fail. The encoders are designed to take account of changes in the speed of the transport system, but if the speed of the hardware is not exactly transport systems accelerate you lose!
It's clean, easy, and there is no maintenance
These three statements are true, the water based inks used in most of these printing systems is much cleaner than oil based inks used in Trident Zar and technology base. No maintenance can be a double-edged sword style with these printers. Where improper cleaning of a Trident, Zar, or declining demand printer can cost thousands to repair and requires adequate training of oil-based inks do not dry so they are ready to print. HP cartridges are removed and capped when not in use and can be easily replaced by any employee. This can cause your ink costs skyrocket if your staff feel that it is easier to quickly replace a cartridge rather than clean and flush the system. Purging is a function that sprays the ink nozzles in an attempt to eliminate minor blockages. Your printer at home or office does on a regular basis, these systems require that you do manually in the software. A cartridge should give you thousands of prints can easily be thrown away and replaced after only a few hundred copies. Ten times the original estimated cost. In an application to high volume, there are bulk ink systems available. Remember that each cartridge in a multi-level configuration requires a separate ink level. At a high level, and the cartridge will leak, low and it will starve and the air will be sucked through the nozzles. I saw one bulk ink system that works well. As you can probably guess that it was developed and designed by HP and is limited to ink they produce. Be absolutely sure that the cost savings of a bulk system exceeds the maintenance and the frustration of a poorly designed system. Remember also the cost of the cartridges in bulk is more than one cartridge use, but can be replaced and removed just as quickly.
Is this type of system is right for you?
If you print less than ½ inches tall and less than 20 characters print one line This is a perfect system for you. You will not have alignment problems with a system with multiple heads. Most other systems will be designed to print a 3-inch print, so that the cost will be higher for features you do not need. I feel limited to 20 characters from a constant speed when printing is easier to maintain with small engravings in length.
If you need a system of multiple cartridge you must ensure that you provide the following.
If you need a system of multiple cartridge you must ensure that you provide the following.
The material to be printed on the needs to be square. Uneven or curved case will not print well. Asymmetric case will bind and drag the passage of the print head and give the fuzzy print or ghost.
Conveyor systems must be smooth and regular. Since the print head is fixed and the equipment is in motion, as opposed to a home or office printer, the absolute speed control is a must for these systems.
Presentation of the printer must be perpendicular and instead head. With little or no ability to print on any distance gap material being printed should be as close as possible without dragging the printheads. This required distance remain the same up and down and the material passes from side to side.
This type of printing technology has been used and proven to work well. We all kind of inkjet printer in our homes and offices. AFAIK, they are all printed with the nozzle of the cartridge down. I found there are several adverse conditions that occur when these cartridges are directed to print on a horizontal rather than vertical plain.
I had great success with this technology in very controlled as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and laboratories where products and materials are contained during transport and are mostly robotic environments. Printing on a vertical plane also increased the reliability of these systems .......
As a technician in industrial printing for many years, I looked at the industries and develop technologies for most improve print quality and reduce maintenance and cost per print. The most recent addition to the field has been the use of cartridges for HP printers standard product marking and coding outer casing. This technology and most of its features have been developed in the printing industry on large canvases and industry dissemination of address information.
Control is the key
The downside to this printing technology is there are too many things that need to align for quality printing. The trident current and print engines Zar one row multiple nozzles. With the system of the HP style ink cartridge itself has two channels next to each other and the second row of nozzles exactly need to print on the first row of nozzles or a ghost or blurred printing is created. This is much less evident in printing text, but can be a disaster when printing graphic images or barcodes. Most manufacturers have included the ability to disable a set of nozzles 150 DPI vs 300 dpi. Printing with a single channel license is half the night and if a nozzle in the cartridge does not block or a clear line will be present in print.
The second alignment comes into play when more than half characters or inch high bar codes to be printed. This is achieved by stacking a plurality of cartridges adjacent to each other in a configuration gradually higher. This requires the second printing of printing information to be perfectly synchronized to match the previous print and so on for each additional toner cartridges. Unlike an ink-jet ink of origin where the feed of paper is controlled, and the speed of the print cartridge and the position is controlled in a manufacturing environment of the cartridge is stopped and printed on the roll material.
The ink cartridge has little or no "throw distance", so that the print head must be placed very close to the printed material. Again on a Web application or a vacuum table This is easily achieved. However, on a conveyor box or crate must be properly aligned the printheads for quality printing. If cases or boxes are not properly constructed and filled to maintain a square profile, they will often take on the printhead or drag the passage and printing. Remember all the time and alignment I mentioned above? The print alignment is controlled only by the timing of the print cartridges. If dredges or changes speed the time is lost and all these alignments fail. The encoders are designed to take account of changes in the speed of the transport system, but if the speed of the hardware is not exactly transport systems accelerate you lose!
It's clean, easy, and there is no maintenance
These three statements are true, the water based inks used in most of these printing systems is much cleaner than oil based inks used in Trident Zar and technology base. No maintenance can be a double-edged sword style with these printers. Where improper cleaning of a Trident, Zar, or declining demand printer can cost thousands to repair and requires adequate training of oil-based inks do not dry so they are ready to print. HP cartridges are removed and capped when not in use and can be easily replaced by any employee. This can cause your ink costs skyrocket if your staff feel that it is easier to quickly replace a cartridge rather than clean and flush the system. Purging is a function that sprays the ink nozzles in an attempt to eliminate minor blockages. Your printer at home or office does on a regular basis, these systems require that you do manually in the software. A cartridge should give you thousands of prints can easily be thrown away and replaced after only a few hundred copies. Ten times the original estimated cost. In an application to high volume, there are bulk ink systems available. Remember that each cartridge in a multi-level configuration requires a separate ink level. At a high level, and the cartridge will leak, low and it will starve and the air will be sucked through the nozzles. I saw one bulk ink system that works well. As you can probably guess that it was developed and designed by HP and is limited to ink they produce. Be absolutely sure that the cost savings of a bulk system exceeds the maintenance and the frustration of a poorly designed system. Remember also the cost of the cartridges in bulk is more than one cartridge use, but can be replaced and removed just as quickly.
Is this type of system is right for you?
If you print less than ½ inches tall and less than 20 characters print one line This is a perfect system for you. You will not have alignment problems with a system with multiple heads. Most other systems will be designed to print a 3-inch print, so that the cost will be higher for features you do not need. I feel limited to 20 characters from a constant speed when printing is easier to maintain with small engravings in length.
If you need a system of multiple cartridge you must ensure that you provide the following.
If you need a system of multiple cartridge you must ensure that you provide the following.
The material to be printed on the needs to be square. Uneven or curved case will not print well. Asymmetric case will bind and drag the passage of the print head and give the fuzzy print or ghost.
Conveyor systems must be smooth and regular. Since the print head is fixed and the equipment is in motion, as opposed to a home or office printer, the absolute speed control is a must for these systems.
Presentation of the printer must be perpendicular and instead head. With little or no ability to print on any distance gap material being printed should be as close as possible without dragging the printheads. This required distance remain the same up and down and the material passes from side to side.
This type of printing technology has been used and proven to work well. We all kind of inkjet printer in our homes and offices. AFAIK, they are all printed with the nozzle of the cartridge down. I found there are several adverse conditions that occur when these cartridges are directed to print on a horizontal rather than vertical plain.
I had great success with this technology in very controlled as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and laboratories where products and materials are contained during transport and are mostly robotic environments. Printing on a vertical plane also increased the reliability of these systems .......
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