Fujifilm Dimatix will display its line of inkjet printheads and
showcase its latest products for materials deposition applications in
its booth, # 1 W-191 at APPPEXPO 2010, the Shanghai International Ad,
Print, Pack & Paper Expo being held July 7-10.
Fujifilm Dimatix is using its new 72 square-meter booth at the
Shanghai New International Expo Centre to exhibit the full line of
Piezoelectric drop-on-demand (Piezo DOD) inkjet printheads from its four
major printhead product lines, and as a gallery to display a wide array
of commercial samples of the many materials Fujifilm Dimatix printhead
products help produce.
In addition, APPPEXPO 2010 serves to spotlight the Fujifilm Dimatix
DMP-3000 Materials Printer and the launch in Asia of the new D-Class
printhead family—the latest additions to the company's materials
deposition product family—and to showcase live demonstrations of the
DMP-3000 producing printed electronics.
"China has proved a steadily growing market for Fujifilm Dimatix
since our Spectra Nova and Galaxy printheads were introduced here. Our
growth here escalated with the introduction of our Skywalker printhead,
and more recently has surged from design mandates for our new,
high-performance Q-Class based Polaris 512-jet models," said Marc
Torrey, vice president, marketing for Fujifilm Dimatix.
"Our new booth in Shanghai at APPPExpo 2010 reflects our growing
presence in the Chinese inkjet printing market, and allows us to
demonstrate that Fujifilm Dimatix offers developers in China the most
comprehensive range of printheads spanning the broadest spectrum of
industrial applications of inkjet technology."
Fujifilm Dimatix printhead products on display include:
• The company's Dimatix Spectra Nova, Galaxy, Skywalker and new
Polaris Q-Class printheads used for wide-format printing, marking,
coating and industrial decoration.
Other FUJIFILM Dimatix products being exhibited—many for the first
time in Asia—are the:
• Dimatix Performa brand printheads for high-performance graphics
printing applications, including the Q-Class based Sapphire and Emerald
printheads with VersaDrop grayscale operating modes;
• Dimatix Inspira brand printheads for specialty printing
applications; and the
• Dimatix Endura brand printhead products used for materials
deposition.
The hallmark of all Fujifilm Dimatix Piezo DOD printhead design is
that every jet can operate concurrently and at a high throughput rate
without trading off drop placement accuracy—thereby enabling precision
jetting at full production speed.
In addition, the durable materials Fujifilm Dimatix uses in their
manufacture allow the company's patented printhead products to jet the
broadest range of inks and other fluids at sustained high frequencies.
The Fujifilm Dimatix booth will also showcase commercial samples
printed by Dimatix' OEM customers from around the world—demonstrating
how Dimatix Piezo DOD inkjet technology can be used for applications
limited only by the imagination.
In all, nearly 25 different applications of inkjet technology will be
on display.
For example, the Fujifilm Dimatix booth lounge area features glass
tabletops printed to look like wood and marble. Other items in the booth
include fired ceramic tiles, glass panels, wood and 3-dimensional
models all printed or decorated using Dimatix inkjet technology. To
demonstrate textiles, the rug and conference room drapes will feature
inkjet-printed designs, mannequins will be outfitted in inkjet-printed
apparel, and attendees will see upholstered chairs with fabric printed
using Dimatix inkjet technology.
Also on display will be the new Fujifilm Dimatix DMP-3000 and
DMP-2800 Materials Printers demonstrating prototyping of printed
electronics. The new DMP-3000 is a non-contact, fluid deposition system
capable of jetting a wide range of functional fluids using any of
several Dimatix fluid deposition printheads interchangeably. Used for an
expanding range of materials deposition applications and developments,
the DMP-3000 has a printable area of 300 x 300 mm and maintains a
positional accuracy and repeatability of ± 5 µm and ± 1 µm,
respectively. More than 500 Dimatix Materials Printers have been
installed worldwide.
Fujifilm Dimatix is also unveiling its new D-Class D-128/1 DPN and
D-128/10 DPN printheads for the DMP-3000. Based on Dimatix' proprietary
Silicon MEMS (Si MEMS) technology, the new D-Class printheads have 128
individually addressable channels and are designed for non-contact
printing of functional fluids for applications such as displays,
electronics and biotechnology. The new D-Class printheads utilize driver
per nozzle (DPN) capability to compensate for any channel-to-channel
variability.
The 1-pL D-128/1 DPN can produce conductive lines and features that
are virtually invisible, or allows biomaterials to be printed at twice
the previously achievable density in a true production mode. The 10-pL
D-128/10 DPN with its larger drop size is used for coarser feature
generation. Both of the D-128 DPN printheads are designed to aid in the
orderly progression from experimentation to scale up using the DMP-3000
printer.
In addition to the products on display in the Fujifilm Dimatix booth,
many of the company's OEM developers will be exhibiting and
demonstrating Dimatix inkjet printhead technology in more than 20 booths
around the show floor.
"Owing to its superior speed, quality and
versatility, our implementation of Piezo DOD inkjet technology is
superbly positioned to dominate not only wide format print production
and specialty printing, but also a broad spectrum of high-growth
industrial applications such as product decoration and materials
deposition," said Torrey. "We are seeing continued strong demand in
China for our high-performance and high-throughput printhead products.
We look forward to exhibiting at APPPEXPO 2010, and invite attendees to
see our broad product range and diverse applications they address."