The market shares of UV flatbed ink-jet printer fields
Customers’ common wish: it can be digitally printed on any materials. UV Flatbed Printer was originally designed and manufactured for the purpose of printing on hard materials, which uses environmental UV inks. Ink-jet technology breaks the limitations just only printing on the soft materials. it can effectively print on hard and rigid materials with thickness of over several centimeters. The main application is for short-term screen printing market as a cheaper alternative, truly making a breakthrough and entering from the field of digital printing to the industrial printing.
The advantages of production for UV flatbed ink-jet printers:
1, The original digital printing is limited to a flexible materials and it needs to be printed on flexible materials sticked into a rigid material. And UV flatbed ink-jet printers are more economical than before of that. Besides, it can save lots of manpower and material resources without any process in pre-printing and after-printing
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2, Although screen printing is used in printing rigid materials, it is just only applied in the long run work because of its high cost on plate making. For now we have truly achieved a goal of non-printing to print with Flatbed and in accordance with cost between leaflets and bulk production. You can effectively complete the short version of the job for you to increase more business opportunities and profits.
3, UV flatbed ink-jet printers complemented the shortage of traditional process of network printing, not only for the small number of copies of the job, but also for proofing or simulating effects of image. So customers can choose the most suitable and needed technology from a variety of processes.
4, The design and the process of production in UV flatbed ink-jet printing is simple, even it can be operated by one person to meet quick demand for customers.
The Main application areas of UV Flatbed Ink-jet Printers:
1, Decoration Industry:
Decorations & special products are professional and personalized market. For example: art glass, ceramic decorations, wooden handicrafts, furniture, fake metal pull, ceilings, curtains, etc. The main characteristic in this market is high cost on hand processing, the low efficiency of production and many short version business. So it is the most suitable and better to replace with digital printing technology. At least 30% of flatbed printing printer are applied in this unique & personalized market.
2, Signage Industry
The hard plate making of advertising, transportation and electric power industry, etc benefit from UV flatbed ink-jet printer. And it can directly inkjet to the final printing plate materials by using UV flatbed ink-jet printer of UV ink such as metal, reflective film, woods, plastic, etc. Relative to the traditional approach: screen printing or ink-jet printing is on the material of water-activated stamp with adhesive and then paste up, which not only reduce the process and costs, but also increase the level of adhesive.
3. Exhibition Industry
The making of POP display panels is one of the most leading wide-images applications in the on-site promotions, POP display, museums and exhibition structures and other environments, including digital ink-jet printing, printing and screen printing, which covers the total of 42% in wide image market. If you use UV ink directly print on rigid plates such as: KT panels, acrylic panels, perspex glass panels, etc, Which deals with problems of the previous film, fading and bubble trouble, etc. also saves substantial labor. You can eventually say farewell to expensive, time-consuming and heavy work on the rigid materials.
4, Rigid paperboard packaging industry
The another one more specific applications fields of UV Flatbed printer is packaging, which it is a enormous industry and the estimated rate of occupation in global market will be over 80 billion USD. At present, the packaging companies which use flexographic printing, screen printing and stencilling packaging can purchase this flatbed ink-jet printers to directly output for proofing and some clients whose need to be customized in small quantities.
5, Leather textile printing industry
Due to the high cost and required high quality texture for traditional screen printing leather and textile printing plate, high-end products are much more, but there is less low-and-medium grade products and no transition color. Therefore, the natural materials of leather printing adopted sublimation technology will become harder after heating and colors will change. These weaknesses of leather printing need to be solved by new technology. That is Flatbed Ink-jet Printer.
The future development trends of UV flatbed ink-jet printers:
The UV flatbed ink-jet printers not only can accept small quantities of personalized production, but also accomplish large batches of high-volume production because the machine can continuously work 24 hours, which replace the low efficiency, low productivity of manual and semi-automatic screen printing market with it. Also, it solves the problems of traditional way of production of the high cost and high inventory. The characteristics of their individual production enlarged the scope of business printing products and stimulated the growth of demand. So It is the representative of new productivity and its high profits become the new hot spot for investment.
The UV Flatbed ink-jet printers have been installed in the world from the quantities of thousands of flatbed printers by the end of 2010 to that of thousands and thousands of printers in 2015. It is totally obvious that the UV flatbed ink-jet printers have quantifiable and growing market. In the near future, the production capacity of the manufacturers will not meet the demand of market, so clients will wait for a long time after placing orders. Based on the optimistic understanding of this flatbed ink-jet printers market, UV flatbed ink-jet printers will play an important and decisive role in the future development of economy and that will make our city dress more and more beautiful, colorful and creative.
