Ink Jet Academy - Practice of Ink Jet Technology
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 inkjet 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
Inkjet 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 behavior, 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
Inkjet Configurations
XYZ printing systems, reel to reel/web based systems, fixed array/scanning
Inkjet integration and maintenance issues & demonstrations
Current inkjet developments and trends
Inkjet 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 check availability and to reserve a place.
Full course details and registration are available from our web site www.imieurope.com or email enquiries to Christine@imieurope.com.
We also have other Ink Jet courses coming up soon at our Ink Jet Printing Summer School 2008, to be held at Imperial College, London. Full details at www.imieurope.com
THE INK JET ACADEMY - THEORY OF INK JET TECHNOLOGY
Imperial College, London
July 8-9, 2008
This course has been running for over 8 years now, and over 1,900 have attended. Both technical and marketing staff will appreciate this broad introduction to ink jet printing, ink jet ink and systems technology.
SURFACE TENSION, WETTING & CAPILLARITY
Imperial College, London
July 8-9, 2008
This advanced course will appeal to those interested in the way that fluids form drops and how they wet surfaces. This is especially important for deposition applications of ink jet as well as for graphics printing. The course is led by Professor Avi Marmur of Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, one of the world’s experts in this field.
INK JET INK MANUFACTURING
Imperial College, London
July 10-11, 2008
This course explains what is involved in taking an ink jet ink from a basic formulation to a finished product. It will appeal not just to ink developers but also managers who want to understand the issues involved in in-house manufacturing of this lucrative consumable.
PIEZO PRINTHEAD TECHNOLOGY
Imperial College, London
July 10-11, 2008
This course will describe in detail piezo materials and their properties, how they are used to make drop on demand printheads, and how these heads operate from a theoretical point of view. Course leader Steve Temple was an inventor of the Xaar technology and until recently Technical Director.
Best Regards,
Mike Willis
IMI Europe Ltd
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Milton Road, Impington
Cambridge, CB24 9NG, England
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