New watershed for functional and functional printing

What is functional and functional printing?

In most people's minds, printing is to be seen by people, from small business cards to large outdoor posters, to graphic stickers on boats, and so on. These are the printed media for people to see. Printed materials for blind people, if you provide embossing, screen printing, inkjet and other bumps, hand touch, feel, but also the role of text and pronunciation, although not the eyes to see, but it can be considered tactile sense Printing capabilities are all "functionality" printing.

Today's goods, goods, and receipts on the streets are printed with “barcodes” made up of parallel lines of different thicknesses. This is an optoelectronically identifiable coding system designed by the US Gatf Printing Foundation in response to the request of the Ministry of Commerce in the 1960s. To this day, it can be said that goods, warehouse management, and circulation to commercial automation in all walks of life will be used as "non-visual" identification tools because the human eye cannot read or recognize the bar code, and only laser (laser) scans. The bar code system processing can identify the barcode encoding. Therefore, regardless of linear barcodes or lattice-coded two-dimensional barcodes encoded in grids, it must be interpreted by devices so that people can know their contents. We call them “functional” printing. Today, with this two-dimensional bar code being read by the device, a sound language will be issued for the blind person to listen to their contents. This is the same as hard disks, optical discs or other electronic memories as "hidden" memory. This type of printing is also functional printing. The future rfid smart card, touch button conductive ink printing, is also functional printing. In the electro-optical process, the use of screen printing to distribute fine printed materials is also functional printing. The well-known "printed circuit board" is self-evident and functional printing.

New developments in functional printing

Functional printing is a kind of printing method based on visual communication. After the ctp computer plate output is popularized, so-called prepress jobs only have one output process. The next step is to use inkjet, toner or electronic ink. The non-printing method not only changed the printing process, but also changed the minimum batch limit for each printing. One or two sheets can be printed out, so that it is no longer necessary to print 500 copies due to a certain degree of fee. More than 1,000 copies will be worthwhile, and as a result, it is not necessary to produce all prints in one place, but to use "logistics" of mail, land, and air. At the same time, instead of using the “printed page file” message file transmission method, it can be exported to any place in the world, making a major change in speed and efficiency. This will change the status of logistics transmission and change it into a message. Print separately and quickly and efficiently.

More colorful, wider color gamut prints, colorful color printing ink, cmyk+rgb colorful printing, plus silver mfx printing, cold printing and then printing the color of bright silver texture performance, if directly on the gold foil, silver foil, Printing a color screen with uv can also increase the texture of the print. Therefore, a more diversified medium for artistic paper, plastics, foils, or synthetic paper, with uv offset printing, uv ink jet, and original screen printing methods, allows designers to present a more diversified appearance. The development of three-dimensional, raster-variable or other new random points in three-dimensional printing and anti-counterfeiting printing not only expands the existing print performance, but more importantly, it makes the printed matter more competitive with other electronic and online media.

Functional printing will have a major breakthrough

Today's solar energy industry can be said to be a very popular technology. If it can be said that screen printing can be used to distribute amorphous silicon materials, or under the conductive silver ink printing, screen printing can be used. In the future, inkjet printing is used. This is not surprising, so functional printing is the use of printing methods to accomplish the distribution of certain materials or substances to achieve a certain non-visual function. In the past, most of the screens were mainly distributed and thick and evenly screen-printed. In the future, ink jetting can be achieved through multi-level material distribution, and it becomes a 3D three-dimensional topographic map-to-object construction. In fact, the line width of today's chip manufacturing can be achieved. The 45-nm range has long exceeded the range of visible light and ultraviolet light that can be exposed to light. It is an extremely high-end technology and large investment in cleaner production. However, it is not necessary to produce semiconductors and electronic circuits that are so delicate. For example, mobile phones and cameras that have been discarded after one use, chips, memory chips, capacitors, resistors, and circuits can all be produced using micro-level ink jets, and do not require a very precise manufacturing environment. Today, a large electronics factory, using screen printing, can produce 500 million to 1 billion yuan worth of touch keys on pet transparencies, including conductive carbon, spacers, and line-to-surface keyboard text. In this way, does the printing industry also have the opportunity to produce this type or more sophisticated electronic components for use by smaller electronics manufacturers in general? In fact, functional printing is not just this one. In the production of lcd screens, the manufacture of ccd-coupled receivers, etc., the use of printing and inkjet means there is still a world to be developed.

Japanese Printing Factory R&D Samples

In the three scientific parks in North, Central and South of Taiwan, there are Japanese Footprint Printing, Dainippon Printing, Screen Printing, Toyo Ink and other manufacturers' footprints, because over 50 years ago, from the printed circuit board, TV screen stainless steel cone, checkered light Mask hole etching, today's functional printing lithography and etching technology, all the way to the ultra-fine Nano world; and another line, from security printing, all kinds of magnetic cards, IC cards to rfid cards are also very successful; packaging like The roof-shaped milk carton was also developed by Dainippon Printing. Toppan Printing also developed a 25gb paper-based Blu-Ray dvd disc. Various building materials include etched steel, wallpaper printing, light-intensity LCD screen production and production of patented processes and equipment, medical test sensors, accurate moisture content test chips. A film as a mobile phone screen, letterpress printing developed a super-hard coating method, anti-abrasive flowers; an ic card, adding biometric fingerprint recognition mechanism; in the lcd, ccd filter, transfer from the consumption of materials Coating, switching to fine inkjet coating, greatly reducing the process and consumables, they continue to accumulate research and development and patents, backward printing is difficult to catch up with the industry, but the patent has passed the process still exists. Toppan uses the printing precision image technology to complete the VR virtual reality of the Beijing Imperial Palace and Edo Castle, and a large and sophisticated simulation of three-dimensional animation, which allows time and space to freely change and browse.

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