Film Dictionary
- Acetate films
- Acrylic pretreatment
- AEO certificate
- Antistatic films
- Bio-based films
- Calibrate
- Cellophane films
- Compostability of films
- Corona pretreatment
- DI acetate films
- Digital transfer printing
- DYE inks
- Ink fountain films for Heidelberg presses
- Ink fountain films for König und Bauer presses
- Inkjet
- Liquid toner
- Mirror films
- Ökotex
- PA / Polyamide
- pick and place
- Pigment inks
- PLA / Polylactic acid, Polyactide
- Polycarbonate / PC
- Polyethylene / PE
- Polyethylenterephalat (PET)
- PP / Polypropylene
- PS / Polystyrene
- PU pretreatment
- RFID
- Screen printing
- Solid inks
- Surface tension
- Syntheticpaper
- TCA pretreatment
- Transfer films
- Visible window backsplash
- Window film
Inkjet
is the name given to the printing process in which ink is pressed through nozzles (jets).
The bubblejet system is found in printers from HP, Canon, Encad or Kodak. Here the ink is heated, which causes it to expand and form a vapour bubble that is pressed through a nozzle. B) Piezo technology is used in printers from Epson, Mutoh, Mimaki and Roland. Here, the ink is sucked into the chamber by negative pressure.
A voltage is applied to a piezo element (semiconductor). The piezo element expands, starts to vibrate and displaces the ink from the chamber. The ink shoots through the nozzle opening onto the medium to be printed and the resulting negative pressure sucks ink into the ink chamber again. This process is also repeated thousands of times per second.
