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Ultraviolet LED Inkjet Printer, short as UV printer, is a machine that uses UV light to cure the special ink and then prints the patterns on substrates, the process is UV printing. Specific print principle of UV printer is that firstly, spray special UV ink to the surface of printed substrates. Secondly, solidify the ink and attach it to the printed substrates through the help of UV light. During this process, people can set the wavelength, strength and exposure time of UV light according to different substrates.
Just as same as other digital printers like DTF printer, UV printer has its own advantages and disadvantages.
Note: This article explains the common advantages and disadvantages of UV printers. In the early days, there were generally three types of UV printers: UV flatbed printers, UV roll-to-roll printers, and UV hybrid printers. Recently, Sublistar launched a new product -the DCP-80 Digital Cylinder UV Printer according to the needs of customers. The following will elaborate on the advantages and disadvantages of the above four UV printers.
Advantages of UV Printer
Printing Versatility of UV Printer
UV printers have a wide range of applications. You can find products made by UV printers in many industries, such as home decor, advertising, and personalized design. UV printing industry mainly uses wood, glass, crystal, PVC, acrylic, plastic, stone, leather, and other substrates. What’s more, the printed image is of high quality and can show the details of the original pattern well.
These are the early UV printers, with the title “universal printing press”. At present, with the progress of Sublistar technology, UV printers can also be transferred to clothing and washable, and high color fastness. At the same time, the technology of UV DTF is also at a higher level, which can transfer the crystal label to items other than hard material materials, such as EVA slippers, PVC soccer balls, and so on.
More Convenient Operation of UV Printer
Whether simple mono-color patterns or colorful patterns or patterns with transition color, UV printer can print directly, without need of producing versions. Also, it is easy and convenient to operate UV printer. And workflow of UV printer is as follows:
Step 1: Design the patterns on computer.
Step 2: Add the function of white ink jet hit to print control software
Step 3: Put substrates on the UV printer platform.
Step 4: Click on the button to start printing.
UV Printer can Realize Personalized Printing Needs
UV printer can meet people’s personalized needs at the largest degree. For producers, they can design and revise patterns on computer directly and then use UV printer to print the patterns. Additionally, printed patterns are of high resolution and clarity.
Patterns printed by UV Printer Are of Strong Durability
Due to the UV coating, patterns printed by UV printer are resistant to fading, stretching and water damage. Therefore, they can last for a long time.
Digital Cylinder UV Printers Can realize Cylindrical Printing And Irregular Cone Printing
Digital Cylinder UV Printer can realize 360° spiral printing technology, the software adds a seamless splicing algorithm, and after setting the size, it is easy to realize the seamless effect.
Ultra-fast printing: CMYK+W+Varnish printing at the same time, the fastest printing speed can be up to 80 seconds/sheet, suitable for mass production mode.
Multi-diameter cylindrical fixture: to meet the printing needs of all kinds of products, the bottle adjustment fixture is equipped with scale adjustment, more convenient operation.
Powerful high drop printing: support 8mm high drop printing, laser automatically measures the shape of the product to realize accurate positioning, easy and perfect printing of shaped products.
Provide a variety of print sizes: print length 0-240mm, print diameter 55-180mm, to meet the needs of insulation cups, cylindrical electronic products, wine bottles, and other types of products, and a wide range of applications.
Disadvantages of UV Printer
High Cost of UV Ink
Because of the features of high resolution and fast drying, UV ink is of high cost. It is more expensive than other consumables like that of screen printing and flatbed UV printing. Apart from this, as white ink is of higher density, its cost is about twice the color ink.
Slower Printing Speed of UV Printer
Printing principle of UV printer is voltage ink spraying, which belongs to short version of digital printing. As a result, its printing speed is slower than traditional screen printing and offset printing.
UV Printer is Prone to Failure
To some extent, UV printer is not as stable as photo machine and carving machine. Also, people should take good care of the printhead and store the UV ink rightly as UV ink is poisonous.
UV Printer is Limited by Printing Surface
In terms of mode, UV printers belong to flatbed printers. Therefore, if the substrate surface has a slope, the UV printer will not be able to print on it. Now the emergence of Digital Cylinder UV Printer can perfectly solve this problem, so if you want to print multiple types of special-shaped objects, you may wish to consider choosing Digital Cylinder UV Printer.
Conclusion
UV printer is of practical use in daily life as it has wide range of applications and can print on hard substrates. Except that, UV printer also guarantees printing quality. If you are interested in choosing one UV printer, click the button to ask for suggestions of Sublistar’s experts.
FAQ
Do patterns printed by UV printer scratch?
The printing result of UV printer is of high quality as UV ink is resistant to fading, water damage and scratching. Therefore, the patterns will not scratch.
What can UV flatbed printers print?
The UV flatbed machine can print on almost any flat material such as mobile phone cases, medals, packaging boxes, leather, wood, ceramics, promotional items, pvc, etc. With the jig, it can also be printed on curved surfaces, such as cups, golf balls, etc.
Can a UV printer print on any object?
UV printers can print on many different substrates, including wood, plastic, ceramic, metal, leather, PET, acrylic, glass, etc.
Does UV printing need a heat press?
UV printing uses special UV ink. It will be dry quickly under the shinning of UV light. So it does not need a heat press.
What is the difference between UV printer and UV DTF printer?
UV printers print on substrates directly while UV DTF printers print on AB films first, and then attach to the substrates. UV DTF printer is extended from UV printer to make up for the shortcomings of UV printing.This passage will help What’s the Difference Between UV Printer and UV DTF Printer?
Dose the item to be printed have to prepared in anyway to accept the uv ink printing on it
Pat
Hello,
Yes, the item needs to be prepared to put on the platflorm.