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October 18, 2021
Stroll through any supermarket, and you will see many sorts of packaging, bags, boxes, movies, and containers. The challenge of keeping ink movement from the printed data on food and staple packaging keeps numerous physicists, printers, and brand leaders awake at night.
It's easy to understand their nervousness. A few guidelines, like the Swiss Ordinance and the Nestlé Guidelines on Food Contact materials, require tough testing to guarantee contaminant levels measure under 10 parts for every billion.
For some perspective on how small an amount this is, consider that one pack of sugar in an Olympic-size swimming pool is a concentration of one part per billion. Now think about measuring for that.
To understand how food packaging stays below these contaminant thresholds, we must first understand what ink migration is, what causes it, and what options there are for preventing it.
What is Ink Migration in Consumer Products
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October 15, 2021
In commercial printing, ink is one of the fundamental consumables that can be managed to diminish costs. All industrial printing managers are searching for ways of controlling this cost. This applies to industrial inkjet printing just as simple printing, as flexo printing or offset printing.
Applying the exact amount of ink necessary to create your necessary printing results is the undeniable way of saving money on this budget detail, yet there are additional advantages that additionally affect and improve on the primary concern for industrial printers.
Cost Benefits of Using Less Ink
There are many additional benefits of reducing ink usage that also improve the bottom line, including some ways to achieve savings that apply to industrial inkjet printing and other commercial printing systems:
1. Shorter Drying Time
Less ink on the substrate leads to shorter drying times. That’s especially important if using
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September 17, 2021
Large format printing used to be costly, yet with more printers coming out, it has become more available to a more extensive scope of advertisers, including promoters. The accessibility of cheap large format ink additionally adds to the popularity of the printing that has taken over generally conventional and old-school techniques like letterpress and lithography.
Having your own large-format printer will allow you to create any marketing, packaging, or sales material you will require without re-appropriating the work to an outsider printing organization. Yet is it worth the speculation? In this blog, we'll examine the advantages of large format printing for organizations so you can settle on an educated choice.
1. A further developed and advantageous approach to print large format media.
To see the value in the convenience of large format printing, we should contrast it with customary printing measures like lithography and letterpress.
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August 19, 2021
The maturing U.S. population combined with expanding health awareness is fuelling the drug blister packaging market. Further, proof-based medicine and patient-driven medicines are driving the requirement for special medication solutions and packaging.
Plastic packaging has the best space for development and growth due to buyers requesting more refined packaging and a more prominent feeling that all is well with the world including child-safe packaging.
Future Market Insights projects the pharmaceutical packaging market growing at a CAGR of almost 6% through 2029.
The plastics segment has the best potential, with about $36 billion of steady freedom.
As the business incorporates packaging past iconic plastic bottles, conveying printed data is moving to adaptable digital inkjet printing. More limited creation runs and the requirement for printing re-did data or security coding makes inkjet printing ideal.
When to use
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August 05, 2021
Important business decisions are being made every day and changing buyer interests and disruptive technology factor heavily into these decisions. Then came the Coronavirus pandemic, and everything changed. New rules were made and countries went into lockdown, customers became hoarders and business travel halted. Hardly any leaders or strategic organizers might have imagined the overall disturbance from the spread of Covid-19, yet discovering approaches to suffer and flourish when these occasions happen is essential for planning and leadership for those with authority.
The Mechanical Inkjet Printing industry was to no exemption. Kao Collins, which makes inkjet inks for business printers, has seen critical expansions in orders for certain inks and diminishes for different inks. “We’re adapting and finding new ways to navigate the new normal now,” said Stephen Buchanan, Business Development Manager at Kao Collins. An innovative work scientist, Buchanan moved from the lab at Kao
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June 30, 2021
Industrial inkjet printing refers to any use of printing technology within the manufacturing process, It can either refer to printing directly on the product itself (as with many textile and electronic markets) or large-scale printing of product packaging. The rise of inkjet printing technologies has fuelled a new focus on the process far above any other printing sector and analysts predict the market surpassing $130 Billion by 2022. Industrial printing evolves alongside a variety of markets, in many cases, digital inkjet printing technologies are not only reacting to market change but proactively driving advances in production quality and cost. Here are four markets that digital inkjet printing has revolutionized.
Inkjet Printing for Textiles
Advances in inkjet printing have allowed for textile printing to become more nimble. Traditionally, screen-printing was required for textile printing and production runs had to be large to be cost-effective. Digital inkjet
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April 07, 2021
For many consumers, shopping is an experience, not just a chore. The sights, sounds, and smells of the typical shopping experience excite these customers. To compete with e-commerce, today’s owners of brick-and-mortar stores are embracing what author George Ritzer describes as “retailtainment,” in his book, Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption.
Wary Consumers Turning to E-commerce in 2020
Online shopping jumped in the “new normal” of the Covid-19 pandemic as stores shuttered during the lockdown period. Despite stores slowly reopening, e-commerce has continued to show strong year-over-year results—Digital Commerce 360 reports e-commerce sales are up 55% in July 2020 compared to the previous year.
Now e-tailers must compete for consumers with more than the ease of click-and-buy. Savvy e-commerce stores know the value of the shopping experience for brand positioning. They have created packaging that fuels millennials to post
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March 22, 2021
The Fastest Growing Inkjet Technology in 2021 - Drop on Demand (DOD)
Drop on Demand Ink technology Printers are predicted to become the fastest growing sector this year for industrial applications. Printing on plastic, cardboard, packaging, hardware, timber, and metals has never been faster. Proof of the DOD inkjet technology making its mark on the industry is shown by Amazon, announcing that over the next few years they will be investing $400 million on expanding digital printing capabilities.
Just a handful of DOD printing’s benefits are flexibility, reduced downtime, mass personalization, and functionality. And it is the combination of these advantages that are behind the ever expanding market growth for DOD that is happening now and in the next several years.
Printing on Curves with Thermal Ink Technology
Thermal Inkjet (TIJ) printing is now rivalling continuous inkjet (CIJ) printing, especially for marking and coding. Thanks
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