Manufacturing Ink Jet Inks For Performance & Reliability
Imperial College, London, England
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The popular course The Ink Jet Academy provides a good background to the types of ink jet inks and materials that are used in today’s ink jet printers. But how are inks actually made? Why does coloured water cost up to $2,000 per litre? Is pigmented ink really more expensive to make than dye-based ink? What is involved in manufacturing advanced ink jet inks?
This course is designed for those wishing to develop, source or commission the development and manufacture of ink jet inks. It will help you understand the issues of development and testing, scale-up for manufacture and the manufacturing processes themselves. As well as being of interest to ink jet technologists, managers will benefit from an understanding of the ink jet ink manufacturing process to set realistic project and revenue plans and to decide whether to manufacture in-house or externally source ink.
Dr. Alan L Hudd, President & CEO
Xennia Technology Limited
Letchworth, Hertfordshire, UK
In 1996, Dr. Hudd founded Xennia Technology; the world’s first independent contract ink jet technology house dedicated to the industrial and office inkjet industries.
Since then, Dr. Hudd has grown Xennia into a leading player in the rapidly emerging market for industrial inkjet technologies. Under Dr. Hudd, Xennia has developed a unique set of inkjet chemistry, engineering and problem solving capabilities that has resulted in a number of important technology innovations, especially in the field of inkjet dispensing of difficult materials.
Prior to establishing Xennia, Dr. Hudd was for 8 years the Fluids Technology Manager at Domino Printing Sciences, developing a wide range of inkjet inks for diverse applications and is credited with a number of patents and significant innovations within the industrial inkjet industry. He spent almost eight years with the Ministry of Defence and Royal Ordnance in the UK, developing new solid polymer rocket propellants for air to air missiles. Dr. Hudd graduated with B.Sc. Honours degree in Chemistry and Physics, M.Sc and Ph.D research degrees in Polymer Chemistry from Manchester University.
Xennia is the world’s leading chemistry driven industrial inkjet integrator. Xennia provides a complete contract R&D service to support the development of a new application. Xennia supplies printers and inks for production line solutions to OEM’s and end-users across a range of industrial applications. Xennia is part of the Royal Tencate Group.
