Ink Transfer Rate Research Articles

Simulation of Shear-Thickening Liquid Transfer between U-Shaped Cell and Flat Plate

Based on the actual measurement of the shear-thickening properties of water-based inks, in order to improve the ink transfer rate, the PLIC (Piecewise Linear Interface Construction) interface tracking method and the VOF (Volume of Fluid) method are used to simulate the transfer process of the shear-thickening liquid between the U-shaped cell and the upwardly moving plate. The effects of substrate surface wettability, cell contact angle, and cell depth on liquid transfer were studied. The results showed that all can increase the liquid transfer rate, and the change of the cell contact angle also led to the difference in the breaking time of the liquid filament. In addition, the shallow plate effect was discovered in the study of cell depth. The shallow plate effect is a phenomenon by which the amount of liquid transferred and the liquid transfer rate are greatly improved when the depth of the cell decreases to a certain limit value. In addition, for the U-shaped cell, the optimization method combining the shallow printing plate effect and fillet can greatly improve the liquid transfer rate and solve the undesirable problems such as plate blocking. After optimization, a liquid transfer rate of about 85% can be achieved.

Predicting Ink Transfer Rate of 3D Additive Printing Using EGBO Optimized Least Squares Support Vector Machine Model

Ink transfer rate (ITR) is a reference index to measure the quality of 3D additive printing. In this study, an ink transfer rate prediction model is proposed by applying the least squares support vector machine (LSSVM). In addition, enhanced garden balsam optimization (EGBO) is used for selection and optimization of hyperparameters that are embedded in the LSSVM model. 102 sets of experimental sample data have been collected from the production line to train and test the hybrid prediction model. Experimental results show that the coefficient of determination (R2) for the introduced model is equal to 0.8476, the root-mean-square error (RMSE) is 6.6 × 10 (−3), and the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) is 1.6502 × 10 (−3) for the ink transfer rate of 3D additive printing.

Effect of Performance of Offset Paper on Ink Transfer

In order to improve the printing quality, 10 kinds of different manufacturers, different gram weight offset paper are used in this title, measure the quantitative, thickness, gloss, K&N values, and roughness of those paper. Print papers through IGTAIC2-5, calculate the ink transfer rate and transfer parameters. Using SPSS to analysis relationship between the performance of paper and ink transfer rate, transfer parameter b, k, f ' by using mathematical methods. The research results show that the performance of the paper affect ink transfer rate and transfer parameter b, k, f '; The tightness, roughness ,glossiness and K&N value have notable effect on the ink transfer rate and transfer parameter k; transfer parameter b, f ' has no remarkable influence.

Influence of the Variation of the Coating Color Composition and Characteristics of Inks on the Printability of the Coated Paper

ABSTRACT In this study, the influence of the physical properties of ink such as ink dispersity and emulsified amount on the printability of a coated paper was investigated with seven kinds of cyan inks. In addition, two kinds of coating formulations were tested to evaluate the effect of coating structure on the coated paper printability. It was found that the cyan ink with 2 pigment size had the best dispersibility and hence the ink showed a best ink density on the two kinds of coated papers. When the emulsified ink A with IPA 20 wt% had a lower viscosity than emulsified ink B with IPA 10 wt%, the emulsified ink A showed relatively high value of the ink transfer rate in comparison with emulsified ink B. Despite the high value of ink transfer rate, the coated paper did not show a good printability because those inks with low vis-cosity due to a strong emulsification were easy to make print mottle on the coated paper. Keywords: Printability, ink dispersibility, emulsified ink, printed mottle, coated paper

Influence of Monomer on the Transfer Properties of UV Waterless Offset Ink

Four kinds of monomers were chosen to prepare ink to research the effect of monomer on the ink transfer performance of UV waterless offset and improve the printing quality. The rheological properties such as viscosity, yield value, thixotropy and stickiness were tested and the ink transfer equation was built, the ink transfer rate was calculated and the effect of monomer on the ink transfer performance was analyzed through the ink transfer experiment. The research results show that the type of monomers has large impact on the rheological properties of UV waterless offset, so the ink transfer performances with different kinds of monomers are different. And the viscosity, thixotropy, yield value and stickiness of the ink with TPGDA and EOEOEA are little, the ink transfer performance is better.

The Impact of Offset Paper on Ink Transfer Rate and Ink Absorption Rate

The ink transfer rate and ink absorption rate directly affects the quality of printing matter, so it is very important to know the influence factors of the ink transfer rate and ink absorption rate. This paper studied on the impact of offset paper smoothness and offset paper absorbency on the ink transfer rate, the impact of offset paper compactness and offset paper absorbency on the ink absorption rate. The results show that ink transfer rate is affected by offset paper smoothness within a certain range. The ink transfer rate is affected greatly by offset paper absorbency. The ink absorption rate is greatly affected by offset paper compactness and absorbency.

The Study of Ink Viscosity and Ink-Transfer Relations

In this paper, using rotational viscometer measured the viscosity of ink，using IGT printability tester complete the transfer of the ink on different paper, using the analytical balance measure the amount of ink transfer, and using transfer rate formula calculate the ink transfer rate. Using EXCEL to establish the ink viscosity and the transfer rate curve, And fitted curve equation, thus that obtained conclusion of different ink viscosity affect ink transfer on different paper.

Study on Relationship between Paper Performance and Ink Transfer Based on Quality Control

The difference of printing quality depends on the transfer of ink and paper performance.In this paper based on the theory of printing.Measuring the performance of all sorts of paper,with IGT-C1 type printability tester to simulate the printing principle.In the same printing pressure,printing speed and ink,under the conditions of constant temperature and humidity.Using different paper type experiment,obtained paper all kinds of performance and ink transfer data.Then processing, analysis,and obtained paper performance and ink transfer rate relation curves of in printing pressure and the printing speed with constant.For the printing quality control to provide certain basis in the different performance of paper.

The Effect of the Proportion of Prepolymer and Monomer on the Performance of UV Offset Ink

Prepolymer and monomer which are the main components of the UV ink have significant influence on the performance. By changing the proportion of prepolymer and monomer to make the different kinds of UV offset ink samples, the samples’ flow curve, yield stress, curing rate, glossiness, emulsification ratio, solid density and ink transfer rate were tested. And the effects of the proportion of prepolymer and monomer on the performance of UV offset ink were studied. The results show that with the decrease of prepolymer, the viscosity, yield stress and glossiness of the ink were reduce, and the curing rates were more or less the same. The emulsification ratio, solid density and ink transfer rate increased with the decrease of prepolymer.

The Effects of Prepolymer on the Performance of UV Offset Ink

By means of simplex-centroid experimental design, three prepolymers EB3700，6358H and 6353-1 were used to define the proportion of composite prepolymers and the performances of the samples of UV offset ink with single prepolymer and composite prepolymers such as flow curve, thixotropy crack index, curing rate, glossiness, ink transfer rate and solid density were studied. The research shows that the ink sample with the prepolymer 6358H has higher viscosity and its thixotropy crack index is higher; the ink sample with the prepolymer 6353-1 has higher glossiness; the ink sample with the prepolymer EB3700 has faster curing rate, and its proof’s solid density is higher; the ink sample with the composite prepolymers EB3700 and 6353-1 has higher ink transfer rate. By means of simplex-centroid experimental design, the best proportion of three prepolymers EB3700, 6358H and 6353-1 is1.4:1:1.