Digital printing is becoming increasingly popular these days. However, static electricity can cause many problems during the printing process, especially with digital inkjet printing, such as printing errors. Problems that can occur include dust attraction, poor (blurry, fuzzy) print results, or dirty printheads (resulting in shorter production runs). Machine stoppages can even occur. All of this leads to higher costs and therefore reduced competitiveness.
Manufacturers who digitally print flat surfaces such as paper, cardboard, wooden floors, and especially plastic sheets (in a single pass) can encounter several problems in their printing sections due to high static charges. To solve these problems, various static measurements are performed to... field strength meter or to find out exactly where the static is generated and where it should be neutralized using a static inline measurement.
The static charge generated during destacking causes the top sheet to adhere to the stack. Bubbles of ionized air are produced using flat ionization nozzles or... Ionization rod with air knife This helps with singulation, ensuring that individual sheets are always fed in and nothing gets blocked.
During transport, the material is treated with ionized air – for example, with the Typhoon system or cleaned with a (rotating) brush in combination with an antistatic rod. After corona treatment, it must be discharged again to ensure that the treated film or plate continues its journey without static charge.
A precisely defined, low charge is required directly at the printheads to ensure high print quality, continuously clean printheads, and thus long production runs. To achieve this, Simco offers the IQ Manager System It offers real-time management and monitoring options with a fully controlled closed-loop feedback (CLFB) system. This system monitors, controls, and regulates all connected static devices and can be directly coupled to the machine control system via a fieldbus connection. Inline measurement and data acquisition of static charge levels can be used in quality reporting.
This provides comprehensive information on efficiency and allows for proactive planning of necessary equipment maintenance. Safety and quality are improved, as the system issues warnings or alarms when predefined limits are exceeded. Thus, the IQ system leads to competitive digital printing of the highest quality!
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