Kyocera inkjet printheads: KJ4A-B for UV-curable ink (left) and KJ4B-Y for water-based ink (right) (Photo: Business Wire)
KJ4B-Y (for water-based ink)
This product
provides high-resolution printing combined with a print speed that is
approximately 1.3 times faster than Kyocera's conventional products, by
ejecting ink up to 40,000 times per second (at 40kHz drive frequency) from
each ink nozzle, resulting in approximately 100 million drops per second
from a printhead with 2,656 nozzles. This allows for higher-speed and
higher-resolution printing for large-volume print jobs with individualized
data, such as invoices and statements, in a short period of time using
water-based ink suitable for paper printing.
KJ4A-B (for UV-curable ink)
This product provides
high-resolution printing combined with a print speed that is approximately
1.5 times faster than Kyocera's conventional products, by ejecting ink up
to 30,000 times per second (at 30kHz drive frequency) from each ink
nozzle, resulting in approximately 80 million drops per second from a
printhead with 2,656 nozzles. This allows high-speed and high-resolution
printing for an increasing number of commercial products, such as label
printing for plastic and glass bottles and containers using UV-curable ink
that enables printing on non-absorbent materials including films and
plastics.
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Features | ||
| 1. | World's fastest high-resolution printing | |
| Kyocera improved the piezo actuator for controlling the frequency and intensity of ink ejection and the programming to achieve high-frequency drive. In addition, enhancing the nozzle shape to improve drop placement accuracy enables the world's fastest high-resolution printing. | ||
| 2. | Design functionality | |
| Both of the new products have a print width of 4.25 inches, thus requiring a fewer number of printheads for wide-format printing, which makes design work easier. It also allows for micron-level printhead alignment, as well as easy adjustment of ink tubing and wiring. | ||
| 3. | Applicable to various types of printing | |
| The product lineup includes both water-based and UV-curable inks. This makes it possible to print not only on paper but also on a variety of other materials such as fabrics and plastic films. Because inkjet systems print without contacting the target material, this technology is expected to be used in a wider range of applications such as printing on textiles and printed electronics (e.g. printing and manufacturing of electronic circuits). | ||
| 4. | High reliability | |
| Breaking the world's fastest print speed record, these new products also deliver the same drive durability performance as conventional products, where drive durability performance (ink ejection frequency) represents product durability. Furthermore, employing an externally sealed structure ensures the high reliability required for commercial printing. | ||
Printing equipment manufacturers are aggressively developing new products in response to recent demands in commercial printing for smaller lot size, shorter delivery time, inventory reduction and variable printing*2. Kyocera's KJ series high-speed and high-resolution printheads, including these new products, will contribute to the advancement of the printing industry.
| *1 | The world's fastest in single-pass inkjet printheads that print with a resolution of 600dpi x 600dpi, with a width of 4.25 inches, and one head for feed direction. Based on research by Kyocera (as of March 22, 2012). | |
| *2 | Variable printing: A printing method by which individually unique data (e.g., individual content of private ledger sheets, each of which is different from the other) is printed. | |
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Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO)(TOKYO:6971) (http://global.kyocera.com/), the parent and global headquarters of the Kyocera Group, was founded in 1959 as a producer of fine ceramics (also known as "advanced ceramics"). By combining these engineered materials with metals and plastics, and integrating them with other technologies, Kyocera has become a leading supplier of electronic components, printers, copiers, solar power generating systems, telecommunications equipment, semiconductor packages, cutting tools and industrial ceramics. During the year ended March 31, 2011, the company's net sales totaled 1.27 trillion yen (approx. USD15.3 billion). The company is ranked #604 on Forbes magazine's 2011 "Global 2000" listing of the world's largest publicly traded companies.
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