• Corpus ID: 211165239

Interaction between Surface of a Master Cylinder and Ink Jet Imaging for Computer-to-Press Applications

@inproceedings{Hbler1999InteractionBS,
  title={Interaction between Surface of a Master Cylinder and Ink Jet Imaging for Computer-to-Press Applications},
  author={Arved C. H{\"u}bler and Magdy Ezzat Abd El Kader and Andreas R. Maurer and Frank Hempel and Chemnitz},
  year={1999}
}

• A. Hübler, M. A. E. Kader, +2 authors Chemnitz
• Published 1999
• Engineering

In production printing normally a maste r form, e. g. a printing plate, is used in the print process to manufacture cheap copies. To make this plate by computer-to-plate, some applications are known which use ink jet technologies for imagin. Future developments in computer-to-press solutions will eliminate physical plat e changes from the process, using insteed a cylinder a s a master , which wil l be fixed in the printing press and which could be imaged directly in the press. After the print job, the master image on this cylinder must be erased for the next job. In this paper some investigations are presented which illustrate the interaction between the ink, the cylinder surface and the conditions of erasing an d their impact in print quality and run length of the printed jobs.