What is the development prospect of UV flatbed printer
To understand whether it has market prospects, we can start from three aspects: UV flatbed printer equipment itself, printing materials, and application industries.
1. The UV flatbed printer equipment itself 1. The type of nozzle. At the beginning of UV flatbed printers, Epson nozzles were the mainstream nozzles. This type of nozzles belonged to small nozzles with slow printing speed. Later, various industrial-grade nozzles were slowly introduced, and the speed was improved. UV flatbed printers have always been based on Seiko industrial nozzles, and the future trend is also towards industrialization.
2. Ink type. The early flatbed printer inks used solvent-based and water-based inks, and later gradually developed into UV inks. The relative advantage of UV inks is that they are more durable and resistant to UV rays. UV flatbed printers use environmentally friendly UV inks. The future development direction of inks is to combine the advantages of solvent-based, water-based and UV-based.
3. The number of nozzles. Most of the early flatbed printers were refitted machines with smaller models and fewer nozzles, usually 6-10, and the printing speed was slow. Now the UV flatbed printer has developed to four rows of nozzles, with 32 nozzles. , the future development will be more.
4. Printing format. The format of the early flatbed printers was very small, and the printing sizes were mostly A1, A2, A3, and A4. Today's printing formats have developed to large-format flatbed printers with a width of 2 meters, 3 meters, 4 meters, and 5 meters. The future of UV flatbed printers The development of the printing format will be larger, and the printing function will be more complete.
2. UV flatbed printer printing materials .The early flatbed printer printing materials can only be materials with low surface density. Now the equipment printing materials have developed into various hard, soft, finished and other materials, such as metal, ceramic tile, glass, Directly print patterns on silicone, carpet, acrylic, mobile phone cases, umbrellas and other items 7mm, the Seiko high drop nozzle developed by UV flatbed printer can print with a drop of up to 15mm, and the printing drop will be higher in the future development. Some flatbed printers can print on circular objects, and the future development prospect will be to print patterns on various irregular materials. 3. The current equipment has gradually penetrated into the field of textiles and precision instruments. In the future, the application trend of the industry will cover a wider range of materials for silk screen printing and pad printing. 3. UV flatbed printer application industry UV flatbed printer market prospect application is very wide, can be used in a variety of different industries: 1. Home improvement industry: such as background walls, ceilings, entrances, floors, wooden boards, cabinets, furniture, electrical appliances; 2. Building materials industry: such as ceramic tile, glass, integrated board; 3. Electronic product industry: such as mobile phone case, power bank, CD-ROM; 4. Advertising industry: such as acrylic, signage, Wantong board, PP board and other materials; 5. Leather Industry: leather bags, genuine leather, fake leather; in addition, there are also the handicraft industry, metal industry, etc., and it may even be more widely covered in the types of materials for silk screen printing and pad printing