With the continuous growth of the global machinery manufacturing industry and the improvement of industrial production automation, the packaging and identification of products have gradually attracted people's attention, and a variety of packaging and identification equipment has been born.
In that era before the advent of inkjet printers, how did people identify products? This article will give you a detailed introduction to the predecessors of modern inkjet printers and their technological evolution.
Before the invention of inkjet printers
Before the invention of inkjet printers, product identification was largely achieved by hand painting. Hand painting is a traditional marking method that relies heavily on workers holding paint cans or brushes and painting directly on the surface of the product. However，this traditional identification method can not meet people's personalized identification needs, and it is difficult to ensure the consistency of each product identification, which undoubtedly caused a certain problem for the tracking and traceability of products at that time.
At the same time, with the continuous development of industrial production, the speed of manual painting was unable to keep up with demand of large-scale production. Under pressure of labor costs, manual painting technology was gradually abandoned, and mechanical printing technology was born in that situation.
In 1969, VideoJet developed and marketed the world's first commercial industrial inkjet printer, marking a significant milestone in the history of inkjet printers. Since then, many companies around the world have launched a series of products such as small print ink inkjet printers, carton large print inkjet printers, and British Domino, French Imaje, British Lingxin Linx, British Willett and other companies have gradually appeared in the inkjet printer market.
In the 1980s, laser printing technology was officially commercialized and put into use in large quantities. With its excellent characteristics of no ink, environmental protection, suitable for a wide range of materials, and tamper-proof once printed, laser inkjet printers have begun to be widely used in the food and beverage industries.
Since then, modern inkjet printers have been divided into two types: ink inkjet printers and laser inkjet printers. However, due to the early development of ink inkjet printer products and relatively favorable prices, it is still the dominant market.
The hot sale of inkjet printer: the continuous inkjet printer with small characters
In the process of inkjet printer technology evolution, inkjet printers have also developed many different types of printing. According to the principle, they can be divided into continuous ink jet (CIJ) and command jet (DOD).When it comes to the size of the characters, they can be divided into small character and large character printing. About to the printing speed, they can be divided into ultra-high speed, high speed, standard speed, and slow speed.
With the rapid development of fast-moving consumer goods, food, medical and other industries, production needs are also growing. The efficient, fast and precise performance of small-character continuous inkjet printers perfectly meets the current market demand and has gradually become the top-tier among inkjet printers.
In principle, the advantage of a small character continuous inkjet printer is that it uses continuous inkjet technology, which not only avoids nozzle blockage problems that often occur in standby jet printers, but also controls the ink system through a computer, and can achieve automatic ink filling and automatic monitoring to maintain a stable ink concentration, ensuring a continuous and exquisite printing effect.
CTT Manufacturing: Success is to keep up with the pace of giants
Under the huge production demand, long-term high-speed operation has long been commonplace for small-character continuous inkjet printers. In addition to core technology, the entire inkjet printer component composition is more challenging. After all, some of these components must be resistant to ink solvents and equipped with the characteristics of adapting to other environmental working conditions in order to achieve the durability and consistency of the inkjet effect.
As a long-term processing supplier of internationally renowned inkjet printer brands such as Videojet, KGK, Keyence, and Linx, you must be wondering why can CTT achieve such a large enterprise scale today? The secret has never been standing on the shoulders of giants to see the world, but to strive to keep up with the pace of giants.
As one of the "Stainless Steel Sheet Processing Engineering Technology Research Centers" in Guangdong Province, CTT continues to invest new resources and develop new processes in the field of inkjet printer processing. We use advanced laser cutting, precision bending and other technologies to overcome the accuracy and consistency problems of printhead sheets. This is also one of the secrets to our long-term cooperation with companies such as Linx.
For decades, we have been forging ahead and flexibly applying the business philosophy of "striving for excellence" to all aspects. Finally, we have realized the global layout of the enterprise, opened our subsidiaries in China, Thailand, Malaysia, the United Kingdom and other countries, and provided high-quality, efficient and cost-effective services to merchants around the world.
In the future, we will continue to expand the scale of our enterprise, help the development of modern industry, and open up new horizons for the machinery manufacturing industry.
CTT TECHNOLOGY (UK) LIMITED
