As one of the modern industrial equipment, UV printers play a huge role in all areas of daily life. Especially in advertising, decoration, personalized customization and industrial manufacturing and other industries have shown amazing effects. UV curing technology makes the printed image have the characteristics of bright color, strong weather resistance, fast drying speed, and so on, which is favored by the market. It is one of the best helpers indispensable to marketization.
However, there are many types of UV printers, which are also divided into industrial large equipment and terminal retail small equipment. Even for small customer groups, retail stores of this type, UV printers still have multiple types and still need to be subdivided. Merchants need to make the best choice according to their own product characteristics. This article will introduce several main types of UV printers in detail to help users better understand and choose their own UV printers.
What are the mainstream types of UV printers?
(1) UV flatbed printer
(2) UV roll-to-roll printer
(3) UV plate mixing printer
(4) UV Cylinder printer
What are the roles of the above four types of UV printers?
(1) UV flatbed printer is one of the most representative types of UV printer family. Its remarkable feature is that it can be printed directly on a variety of flat materials, such as wood, glass, metal, tile, leather, etc. This printer usually uses a high-precision piezoelectric nozzle or hot foam nozzle, which can ensure that the printed image is fine and rich in color.
(2) UV roll-to-roll printer is a type of UV printer designed for coil printing. It supports high-speed, high-quality printing on continuous coils, such as paper, cloth, film, etc. This type of printer usually uses a wide nozzle to achieve large format printouts. Some businesses that do UV DTF crystal labeling may choose this printing method to save the trouble of manual laminating and simplify the operation process.
(3) UV hybrid printer is a multi-function printer that combines the advantages of UV flatbed printer and UV roll-to-roll printer. It is capable of printing on flat materials as well as high-speed printing on coils. A multi-purpose machine to meet the diversified needs of users.
(4) UV Cylinder printer is a printer for printing cylindrical cup body. This printer is ideal for customers who can quickly produce single pieces or small batches of finished products, and can also support 360° seamless splicing technology. Support a variety of printing materials, such as cups, wine bottles, golf balls, cans, etc., good adhesion. It is one of the best assistants to achieve high quality and personalized daily necessities.
Advantages of different types of UV printers
(1) UV flatbed printer can achieve high-precision printing, adapt to a variety of materials, environmental protection and energy-saving printing, fast drying production efficiency.
High precision: UV flatbed printers usually have high printing accuracy, which can meet the requirements of users for details.
Multi-material adaptability: It can be printed on a variety of flat materials, expanding the scope of application.
Environmental protection and energy saving: The use of UV ink for printing, curing process without heating, reducing energy consumption and environmental pollution.
Fast drying: UV ink can cure quickly under ultraviolet irradiation, which improves production efficiency.
(2) UV roll-to-roll printer can achieve continuous coil printing, and one operator can complete all work independently. 3 printheads realize multi-layer printing in white + color + glossy oil, support hot gold, hot silver, can achieve high brightness, high luxury custom effect.
High-speed printing: Supports high-speed roll-to-roll printing, which improves production efficiency.
Continuous printing: Capable of printing on continuous coils, suitable for mass production.
High precision: wide-width nozzle and high-precision control system ensure print quality.
Multi-mode printing: supports a variety of printing modes, such as single-sided printing, double-sided printing, lamination printing, etc.
High quality: Unique sprinkler system, reel heating system and multi-layer printing effect ensure high quality and stable output.
Wide range of applications: It can be applied to some shape surfaces and objects that can not be moved or printed well, to achieve diversification of applications. At the same time, it can achieve 3D relief and multi-layer transparent concave and convex effect, with first-class gloss and texture.
(3) UV plate and roll hybrid printers are widely used in a variety of areas that need to take into account both flat and roll printing, such as packaging printing, advertising production, personalized customization, etc.
Versatility: It can print both flat materials and coil materials, which improves the utilization rate of the equipment.
High precision: The use of high precision control system and nozzle to ensure print quality.
Efficient production: Support high-speed printing, improve production efficiency.
Strong flexibility: It can be customized according to user requirements to meet the requirements of different application scenarios. A multi-purpose machine, fully realize the completeness of the small store, to meet the individual needs of customers.
(4) UV Cylinder printer can support high drop printing, laser automatic measurement of product shape, accurate positioning, easy and perfect printing of special-shaped products. Print size support: print length 0-240mm, print diameter 55-180mm. Meet the needs of thermos cups, cylindrical electronic products, wine bottles and other products. Conical or cylindrical, transparent or opaque, can be friendly and continuous printing on glasses, water bottles, candles, golf balls, baseballs, food cans, and ensure good results.
Super personalized customization: The monochrome gradient effect can also be well displayed, the transition is natural, the ink dot is delicate, and the pattern is clear.
Simple operation: multi-diameter cylindrical fixture to meet the printing needs of various products, bottle adjustment fixture with scale adjustment, more convenient operation.
Stable ink supply system: siphon positive pressure ink supply system, more stable ink supply, secondary ink cartridge and bottom plate with heating function, intelligent temperature control makes printing safer.
Note on choosing UV printer
When choosing a UV printer, users need to pay attention to the following aspects:
Printing requirements: Define your own printing requirements, including printing materials, printing size, printing speed, etc.
Equipment performance: Understand the printing accuracy, color reproduction degree, stability and other performance indicators of the equipment.
Cost of consumables: Consider the cost and availability of consumables such as UV ink and transfer film.
After-sales service: Choose manufacturers or brands with good after-sales service and technical support.
Price factor: Choose the right equipment model and brand according to your budget.
The UV printers introduced in this paper are all small equipment, so they are suitable for some retail stores and individual industries. Of course, if you want to do agents can also be considered.
To sum up, UV printers have a variety of types, each type has its own unique application scenarios and advantages. When choosing, users should make comprehensive consideration according to their actual needs and choose the most suitable type of equipment. At the same time, pay attention to the performance of the equipment, the cost of consumables, after-sales service and price and other factors to ensure that the purchase of cost-effective UV printers.
