INK JET ACADEMY – PRACTICE OF INK JET TECHNOLOGY
Letchworth, UK - October 10-13, 2011
www.imieurope.com
The Practice of Ink Jet Technology is an intensive course that provides the chance to get your hands dirty! Aimed at chemists and scientists who want to improve their level of ink jet practical expertise, the course is hosted at Xennia Technology’s laboratories at Letchworth, UK, mid-way between London and Cambridge. This is your chance to save months of moving up the learning curve by gaining knowledge rapidly via our intensive programme.
The course coverage includes:
Introduction to ink design & testing
Critical aspects, physical properties, ink types
Technology demonstrations
Operating a range of ink jet printing equipment
Overview of ink manufacturing
Mixing, milling, dispersions and filtration, scale up from lab to manufacture, manufacturing quality control practices
Practical Ink Making
Mixing, preparing pigment dispersions, filtration, physical characterization and QC process
Ink jet characterization of different inks and diagnosing performance
The effect of waveform on drop break-up, ligament and satellite formation for good and bad inks, droplet break-up, ligament behaviour, satellite formation
Measuring application and substrate properties of print
Image characterization techniques, factors affecting print quality, techniques to measure adhesion, scratch resistance, abrasion, optical density and other end user properties
Ink jet Configurations
XYZ printing systems, reel to reel/web based systems, fixed array/scanning
Ink jet integration and maintenance issues & demonstrations
Current ink jet developments and trends
Ink jet surgery
Question and answer sessions
All of this is packed into our course held over 4 days. Numbers are strictly limited so please contact us as soon as possible to reserve a place.
Full course details and registration are available at www.imieurope.com or email enquiries to christine@imieurope.com
Full details on our web site www.imieurope.com .
Further courses also coming this Fall are:
19th Annual European Ink Jet Printing Conference
November 9-11, 2011
Ink Jet Academy: Theory of Ink Jet Technology
November 7-8, 2011
AWA Inkjet Label & Packaging Print Seminar
November 8-9, 2011
Sheraton Lisboa Hotel
Lisbon, Portugal
8th Annual Security Printing Conference
November 16-18, 2011
Hollywood Beach Marriott
Hollywood (Ft. Lauderdale), Florida
