Inkjet Ink Manufacturing
Manufacturing Inks For Performance & Reliability
Thursday 25 - Friday 26 January 2018
Ayre Hotel Astoria Palace, Valencia, Spain
COURSE FOCUS
This course is designed for those wishing to develop or source inkjet inks, or interested in commissioning their development and manufacture. It will help you understand the issues of development and testing, scale-up for manufacture and the manufacturing processes themselves, as well as covering the potential business models for an ink formulation or manufacturing company. As well as being of interest to inkjet technologists, managers will benefit from an understanding of the inkjet ink manufacturing process to set realistic project and revenue plans and decide whether to develop and manufacture in-house or source externally.
COURSE OUTLINE
Thursday 25 January
12:30 - 13:30 Registration
13:30 Course begins
Critical aspects of inkjet systems design
- Printheads
- Ink
- Ink systems
- Motion control
Ink formulation considerations for manufacturing
- Inkjet ink ingredients
- Inkjet ink design & requirements
Creating robust material specifications
- Dyes
- Pigments
- Polymers
- UV cure materials
- Functional materials
- Solvents
- Additives
17:00 Session ends
18:00 - 19:00 Reception
Join us for beers, wines and good company!
Friday 26 January
09:00 Session begins
Testing protocols & validation for manufacturing
- Optimisation & testing
- Test schedules
- Protocols
- Testing for reliability & robustness
- Relationship with printer
- Printhead
- Colour tables
- Ink management system
Ink manufacturing
- Quality control processes
- QC laboratory infrastructure
- QC laboratory equipment
- Scale up for manufacture
- Lab processes
- Pilot plant trials
- SPC parameters
Inkjet ink requirements
- Jet break-up
- Nozzle plate inspection
- Drop velocity & volume
- De-cap & latency
- Expanding printing & lifetime
- Image quality analysis
Manufacturing & ink plant requirements
- Layout
- Equipment selection
- Manufacturing practices
- Quality standards
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 Session begins
Manufacturing processes
- Mixing regimes
- Water based inks
- Solvent based inks
- UV-cure inks
- Milling processes
- Filtration systems
- Degassing
- Purification
- Bottling
- Packaging
Commercial considerations
- Markets
- Strategies
- Costs
- Positioning
- Value chain
17:00 Course ends
COURSE LEADERS
Dr Simon Daplyn, Product Manager Inks
Sensient Imaging Technologies
Letchworth, Hertfordshire, UK
Dr Simon Daplyn has been at Sensient (formerly Xennia Technology) since 2008 and is currently Product Manager for Sensient's ink products globally including textile and industrial applications. As part of the team that commercialised the Xennia textile products, Simon has a particular focus on textile solutions for decoration and functional finishing. Previously Simon was involved in the R&D group overseeing the development and scale-up of advanced industrial inkjet solutions across a wide range of applications including biomedical, electronics and functional printing along with innovative product decoration inks. Simon has been involved with inkjet for 12 years starting with a PhD on Digital Printing for Textile Decoration. After this he joined Nanojet Ink as a Technical Manager involved in design, development and manufacture of a number of inkjet inks and innovative coatings for various applications.