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Inkjet Ink Development
Conference 2019
8-11 April 2019
Crowne Plaza Hotel - City Alster | Hamburg | Germany
Materials, equipment, techniques and applications for inkjet fluids
Inkjet Academy Inkjet Ink Inkjet Ink Development
Characterisation Conference
Mon 8 - Tues 9 April 2019 Mon 8 - Tues 9 April 2019 Wed 10 - Thu 11 April 2019
Knowledge of the technology behind any This course covers rheology and surface Materials, equipment, techniques and
industry is essential to its development. tension measurements, particle and applications for inkjet fluids.
The Inkjet Academy course covers the dispersion assessment, as well as drop
basic theory behind the many types of visualisation and print quality analysis. The IMI Europe Inkjet Ink Development
inkjet technology used today and aims to Conference is a two-day technical
give your understanding of the industry The Inkjet Ink Characterisation course conference devoted to digital printing
an expert start. gives an excellent introduction to these ink development and manufacturing. The
essential areas of study, presented by event is aimed at inkjet fluid developers
The course will show you how industry experts from leading suppliers across applications including packaging,
printheads work, the materials used in and institutions in the field. The course will textiles, graphics, industrial and functional
their fabrication and the theory of their give you the basic foundations as well as printing. The conference gives access to
operation. You will also learn how inks are a more detailed understanding of the vital key suppliers and technology from the
formulated and used, as well as about ink equipment and techniques. inkjet industry – everything that you need
supply and support systems. The course to develop and manufacture inkjet inks.
examines how drops are formed, travel This course will also include a visit to the
and behave on the substrate surface. KRÜSS laboratory. Topics for the event include colorants,
Fundamental aspects of printer operation material dispersion, resins & polymers,
such as nozzle maintenance and print photoinitiators, additives and other
quality are also covered. materials, analytical equipment &
techniques, processing & manufacturing
equipment, jetting and surface behaviour
and application case studies.
Who should attend: inkjet ink and fluid
developers wishing to understand the
latest developments in materials and
technology.
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Inkjet Academy
The Theory of Inkjet Technology
Monday 8 – Tuesday 9 April 2019
Course Focus
Understanding the basics is essential to any industry’s development. The Inkjet The course examines how drops are formed, travel and behave on the substrate
Academy one-and-a-half day course covers the theory behind the many types of surface. Fundamental aspects of printer operation such as nozzle maintenance and
inkjet technology used today and aims to give your understanding of the industry print quality are also covered.
an expert start.
The course assumes a basic scientific knowledge and is designed to provide useful
The course will show you how printheads work, the materials used in their background information for anyone entering the inkjet industry, seeking an update
fabrication and the theory of their operation. You will also learn how inks are on today’s technology or looking for further fields of development.
formulated and used, as well as about ink supply and support systems.
Monday 8 April 2019 Inkjet ink materials and dispersions Emerging technologies
12.30 – 13.30 Registration • Range of materials and ink chemistries • Kodak Stream
13.30 Course begins • Evolution of inkjet inks • Memjet
• Evolution of dyes • HP PageWide technology
Introduction to inkjet • Pigments and dispersion technology • Landa Nanography
• Course overview • Dispersion theory • Lead-free piezo
• Types of inkjet technology • Polymers and additives • Speed & resolution trends
• Drop on demand technologies • Processes and manufacturing
• Thermal and piezo inkjet 17.30 Course ends
• Evolution of inkjet markets
System design issues Course Leaders
• Inkjet patents
• Ink supply
Mike Willis, Managing Director
• Nozzle maintenance
Inkjet ink technologies Pivotal Resources, UK
• Mist control
• Ink types: aqueous, solvent, oil, phase change & UV Mr Willis founded Pivotal
cure Resources, a consultancy in
Substrate & interactions
• Dyes & pigments the digital printing industry, in
• Papers and coated papers
• Inkjet ink formulations 1995. He has experience in a
• Films, rigid substrates
• Bleed and intercolour bleed wide range of technologies and
Drop production • Pre and post coatings markets including drop-on-
• Thermal inkjet • Adhesion demand & continuous inkjet
• Piezo inkjet • Requirements versus applications printing, electro-photographic technology, greyscale
• Continuous inkjet • Drying & colour reproduction methods and light sensitive
• Bulk piezo • UV curable materials materials. Prior to founding Pivotal Resources, he was
• Si-MEMS/TFP • Monomers Director of Electronic Printing at Meta Generics. He
• Deposition requirements • Oligomers was a co-founder of Xaar and before that, he spent six
• Drop ejection frequency • Photoinitiators years at Gestetner developing photocopiers.
• Crosstalk • UV curing Dr Alan Hudd, Director
• Reliability • e-beam curing Alchemie Technology, UK
• Life issues
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch Dr Hudd is Director and
Inkjet inks co-founder of Alchemie
13.30 Session begins
• Inkjet ink design Technology, an independent
• Understanding the inkjet printing process
Print & image quality contract development and
• Factors affecting print quality consultancy company to
• Drop formation
• Printhead-ink-substrate the industrial inkjet industry.
• Properties influencing piezo inkjet ink performance
• Greyscale methods Alchemie is developing
• Testing an ink for reliability: methods &
• Drop detection and commercialising a range of novel printhead
characterisation
• Banding, single pass issues technologies through its joint venture company,
17:30 Session ends • Drying effects Jetronica. Dr Hudd was the Founder and Managing
18:00 - 19:00 Reception • Missing nozzle detection Director of Xennia Technology from 1996 to 2012.
• Missing nozzle compensation
Dr Simon Kew
Join us for beers, wines and good company! Alchemie Technology, UK
Inkjet applications
• Coding, marking, mailing, addressing Dr Kew leads Technology and
• Wide format graphics Business Development at
Tuesday 9 April 2019 Alchemie Technology. He has
• Industrial decoration – décor & laminates
08.30 Course begins • Ceramic tiles over 15 years of experience
• Textiles in new product and process
Drops in flight innovation applied to
• Commercial printing
• Drop placement accuracy chemistry-enabled products.
• Labels & packaging
• Drop break-off Dr Kew works across industries including consumer
• Printed electronics, bio-medical & 3D printing
• Drop impact and spread goods, foodstuffs, chemical and pharmaceutical
• Mist control sectors. He specialises in delivering innovation using
digital manufacturing technologies including inkjet
printing and additive manufacturing technologies.
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Inkjet Ink Characterisation
Viscosity, Dispersions, Jetting & Surfaces
Monday 8 – Tuesday 9 April 2019
Course Focus Course Leaders
Development of high quality inks and fluids for inkjet applications requires state-of-the-art characterisation
Paul Best, Director of Engineering
equipment and techniques. From fundamental ink properties such as viscosity and surface tension, which
have a crucial impact on jetting performance, through analysis of particulates dispersed within the ink, ImageXpert, USA
understanding these properties is key to getting the best out of an ink development project. In addition, it is Paul is Director of Engineering
vital to understand how the developed ink actually behaves, both on ejection from the printhead and when at ImageXpert Inc. and lives in
landing onto the substrate of choice. Nashua, NH USA. Prior to joining
ImageXpert, Paul worked as
The Inkjet Ink Characterisation course gives an excellent introduction to these essential areas of study,
an Optical Engineer and Team
presented by industry experts from leading suppliers and institutions in the field. The course will give you the
Lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion
basic foundations as well as a more detailed understanding of the vital equipment and techniques.
Lab. Paul received his Bachelor’s
degree in in Mathematics and Computer Science
Monday 8 April 2019 Basic property measurements - surface from Wheaton College, and his Master’s degree in
12.30 – 13.30 Registration tension Physics from California State University, Los Angeles.
13.30 Course begins Dr Thomas Willers, KRÜSS
Jetting and print quality analysis • Surface tension - introduction Mats Larsson, Technical Product Specialist -
• Relevance to droplet formation and spreading in Rheology
Paul Best, ImageXpert
inkjet printing Malvern Panalytical, Sweden
• Introduction to drop analysis • Interplay of surface tension and viscosity in drop Since 2010, Mats has been
• How is in-flight analysis used? formation responsible for technical
• Drop formation • Impacts on wetting and application support to
• Reliability • How to optimise ink-substrate adhesion and customers for the Malvern
• Misting spreading rheometers product line. He
• Nozzle-to-nozzle consistency • Interfacial rheology and its relevance to drying is also involved in rheology
• Drop measurement • Theories and methods of measurement - training and seminars.
• Simple application examples compared and contrasted
• Overview of techniques • Application examples from inkjet industry
• Fundamental measurements Dr Thomas Willers, Head of Applications &
• Practical demonstration 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch Science
• Introduction to print quality analysis 13.30 Session begins KRÜSS, Germany
• How is print quality analysis used? Dr. Thomas Willers studied
• Dot properties KRÜSS Laboratory Visit physics in Cologne and
• Line properties The visit will consist of a laboratory tour, and Barcelona. He received his PhD
• Solid area quality interactive demonstration of the following: degree in experimental physics
• Colour registration at the University of Cologne.
• Ink interaction • Fully automatic determination of surface and In 2012 he joined KRÜSS
• Overview of techniques interfacial tension using GmbH at its headquarters in
• Practical examples • force tensiometry Hamburg where he is now head of the department
• drop shape analysis (pendant drop method) for Applications & Science. He is responsible for the
17:00 Session ends • Dynamic surface tension measurement using the KRÜSS Application Labs as well as teaching activities
18:00 - 19:00 Reception bubble pressure method and now has more than five years’ experience in
• Contact angle measurement using the Wilhemy- teaching surface science.
Join us for beers, wines and good company! Method
• Optical contact angle measurement
• Mobile fully automatic determination of a
Tuesday 9 April 2019 substrate’s surface free energy
• Optical contact angle and wetting analysis of pl-
09.00 Course begins size droplets
Optimising ink rheology for printing • Contact angle from the top: measuring the CA in
applications cavities
• Novel liquid needle dosing technique for optical
Mats Larsson, Malvern Panalytical
contact angle measurements
• Understanding the importance of fluid rheology for • Interfacial rheology using the oscillating drop
inkjet printing method
• Basic rheology theory - viscosity and viscoelasticity
• Rheological test methods for inkjet inks and 17:00 Course ends & return to the hotel
processes
• Practical examples
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IMI Europe Inkjet Ink Development Conference 2019
Wednesday 10 – Thursday 11 April 2019
The IMI Europe Inkjet Development Conference is a textiles, graphics, industrial and functional printing. The
two-day technical conference devoted to digital printing conference gives access to key suppliers, technology and
solution development. The event is aimed at inkjet advances from the inkjet industry.
developers across applications including packaging,
methodologies, is critical to success. Through a
Technical Advisory Board Wednesday 10 April 2019 combination of print sample analysis and laboratory-
09.00 – 10.00 Conference registration scale print experiments we look at the challenges
The conference is guided by a Technical Advisory
10.00 Morning session begins involved with implementing different ink types into
Board consisting of key industry figures, including:
packaging applications and how the evolution of the
Using high performance colorant platform technologies of ink and head is enabling the
dispersions to create opportunities for next generation of hardware with flexible packaging
aqueous inkjet applications firmly in its sights for Drupa 2020.
Dr Hamid Shirazi
Dr Simon Daplyn Opportunities and challenges for inkjet
Segment Marketing Manager,
Marketing Manager
Fujifilm
printing of food and pharmaceuticals
Sensient Imaging Technologies
High performance colorant Dr Simon Daplyn
dispersions are one of the Marketing Manager, Sensient
key factors in developing Imaging Technologies
inkjet applications and driving From the introduction of date
the growth in industrial and packaging inkjet coding onto eggs to the digital
markets. The performance requirements of colorant images found on birthday
Dr Thomas Willers dispersions are multidimensional. They are not only cakes, printing onto food and
Head of Applications & Science limited to formulation stability, reliable jetting and pharmaceutical products has long been established.
KRÜSS printing, but also deliver the critical to quality (CTQ) There are now thousands of food and pharmaceutical
parameters of the intended end use applications. items printed every day. In today’s market, the
A "Life of an Inkjet Drop" methodology has been demand for personalisation and traceability for
used as a tool to outline the requirements and role items such as baked goods, pills and capsules is
of colorant dispersions throughout the value chain greater than ever before. However, there are many
starting from a pigment dispersion concentrate challenges in formulating digital inks for these
Frank de Jonge to a final printed product. Examples of different applications and a number of risks to be considered
Sales Director market applications outline what some of those from micro contamination, heavy metals, pathogens
Adphos requirements are and how a high-performance or adulteration. This talk will look at the market, ink
dispersion technology can deliver them. development and manufacturing challenges and the
application needs.
Inkjet printing for packaging: Technical
analysis Refreshment Break
Dr Mark Bale
Dr Tim Phillips Director, DoDxAct
Managing Director
Over the last 10+ years
IMI Europe
the printing of labels and
corrugated sheets have
been the point of access for
inkjet OEMs looking to gain a
foothold in the packaging sector. The management of
print quality through the successful integration of ink,
printhead and process, such as the right maintenance
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IMI Europe Inkjet Ink Development Conference 2019
Wednesday 10 – Thursday 11 April 2019
Manipulating printhead waveforms: Tools
and techniques
Matthew Pullen
Product Manager Drop
Watching Solutions, Meteor
Inkjet
The choice of printhead
driving waveform can make
the difference between
dazzling success and dismal failure for any industrial
inkjet system. The topic of waveforms can seem
complex and baffling given the myriad of printhead
types, all driven in unique ways, together with
a seemingly infinite variety of fluids. What is a
waveform and how is it created? Can waveforms
be optimised for specific applications? This talk
Waveform optimisation and latency will provide answers to these questions and more,
Inkjet printing for pharmaceutical
with emphasis on the special tools and techniques
applications
Paul Best required to manipulate waveforms.
Olga Kiefer Director of Engineering,
Heinrich Heine Universität ImageXpert Refreshment Break
Düsseldorf Development of quality
Innovative technologies inkjet inks and waveforms Rheology and other techniques,
capture the markets in requires state-of-the-art importance to inkjet ink and inkjet
all sectors. But why not characterisation equipment printhead design
“misuse” an established and techniques. In order to optimise the ink, as
Mats Larsson
technology to fulfil innovative approaches in well as jetting conditions and waveform, it is vital
Product Technical Specialist,
highly regulated markets?! In recent years inkjet to understand how the ink actually behaves, both
Malvern Panalytical
printing was discovered by the pharmaceutical when ejected from the nozzles and after it hits
science and industry not only as a labelling the substrate. We overview measurement of ink, Inkjet inks must exhibit
tool for anti-counterfeit medicines but also as a waveform and substrate performance, using real- desirable rheological
potential manufacturing technique of on-demand world data and images from automatic sweeping behaviour across the diverse
personalised medicines. In contrast to the printing and analysis tools. We cover automatic waveform conditions experienced
industry, the drug-loaded inks and appropriate sweeps, drop tracking and sustainability data, during printing. Inks must be stable at the low shear
substrates have to be manufactured in a sufficient and discuss how this information can be used for stresses encountered during storage while meeting
pharmaceutical quality. That means no harmful or optimisation. We also provide a survey of other exacting flow and transfer performance targets at
toxic components are allowed. This talk will discuss key equipment for inkjet development, including the extreme shear rates generated during printing.
the changes, recent progress and key challenges of dropwatcher, ink supply, print controller, mist Inks and inkjet nozzle design are affected by many
extractor, tools for head autopsy and belt or linear different aspects like viscosity, viscoelasticity, surface
inkjet printing from the pharmaceutical point of view.
stage for creating test prints. tension and particle size/concentration/density.
Different aspects will be discussed in terms of ease
Panel discussion: Inkjet development - of printing and ink stability. Results of different types
challenges and opportunities First experimental study using a novel
device for characterising drop formation, of viscosity measurements and their impact on inkjet
• Inks for packaging - regulatory issues drop substrate interaction, and wave form behaviour are presented. Different techniques that
• Inks for food and pharmaceutical applications optimisation aid understanding inkjet printhead functionality and
• Topics arising inkjet design are presented.
Dr Thomas Willers
The panel will be chaired by Dr Simon Daplyn, Head of Applications & Science, Panel discussion: Ink characterisation
Marketing Manager, Sensient and include industry KRÜSS equipment
experts from the conference Technical Advisory The challenge of reducing the
The panel will be chaired by Dr Tim Phillips, IMI
Board and conference presenters. thermal treatment conditions
Europe and include industry experts from the
required for metal oxide thin
conference Technical Advisory Board and conference
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch films to enable deposition
presenters.
on flexible, plastic substrates has proven to be a
significant barrier to creating novel devices using
14.30 Afternoon session begins Sponsors’ Forum
inkjet printing. In this talk the use of preformed
crystalline nanoparticles in active matrix will be 17.30 – 18.00
discussed and results from the development of two Hear short presentations from the event sponsors
active matrices presented. Properties of a variety of
formulations including modified metal alkoxides Reception
in functional alcohol with and without glyme 18.00 – 19.30
stabilisers will be reviewed to highlight the optimum Join us for wine, beer, canapés and good
compositions of inks for future testing. Some printed
company!
pattern results using the highest potential inks will
also be included to demonstrate the advantages of
the approach that have been achieved to date.
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IMI Europe Inkjet Ink Development Conference 2019
Wednesday 10 – Thursday 11 April 2019
Thursday 11 April 2019 Pulsation-free air micropump for ink VMOX – The new vinyl monomer for UV
09.00 Morning session begins
control inkjet applications
Dr James McCrone Giovanni D’Andola
Understanding complex rheology of inkjet
Managing Director, TTP Ventus Business Development
inks and linking its dynamic properties to
Precise control of meniscus Manager, BASF
jetting performance
pressure is important to BASF recently added a new
Dr Tri Tuladhar delivering a high level of product to its broad functional
Principle Consultant, Trijet reproducibility within and vinyl monomers portfolio: vinyl
Optimising bulk properties between printheads, thereby methyl oxazolidinone, called
of inkjet inks to printhead avoiding visual defects in the images they print. VMOX. Compared to standard reactive diluents,
specifications alone are no Present meniscus control systems are relatively VMOX has significant technical benefits such as
guide to achieving reliable large and complex however, limiting print system being liquid at room temperature with a very low
jetting. Any minor changes design flexibility and performance. TTP Ventus viscosity of 4 mPa/s, a low odour and favourable
in ink components or batch variations and process offers a solution to this problem through its range toxicological profile. VMOX’s high reactivity and good
conditions can drastically change high frequency of gas micropumps. Pulsation-free flow means that adhesion properties on several plastic substrates
complex rheology and extensional rheology. We dampers and accumulators are no longer required, creates opportunities for innovative formulations.
will discuss the influence of ink components on while rapid response and precision enable unrivalled The talk will review VMOX’s capabilities and early
complex rheology and hence the jetting behaviour meniscus control. In addition, modular system application results.
and present novel rheological tools capable of architectures are made possible by the pump’s small
size. This talk will describe present meniscus control 12.00 – 13.30 Lunch
quantifying complex rheology of inkjet at conditions
like those during printing. These techniques provide systems, introduce our pumps, and provide examples 13.30 Afternoon session begins
useful tools in ink formulations, differentiate between of new meniscus control architectures that they
apparently identical inks which show different enable.
High purity acrylate monomers
jetting behaviour and recommend optimum jetting
Refreshment Break Kenji Kikuta
temperature and print frequency.
Monomer Overseas Sales
Multiscale modelling of drop dynamics in New acylphosphinoxide photoinitiators Section, Osaka Organic
the inkjet printing process for water-based formulations and inks Chemical
Acrylate monomers are the
Prof Herman Wijshoff Gianni Casaluce
most common reactive diluent
Océ Technologies / Eindhoven Researcher, IGM Resins
for UV/EB inkjet technology.
University With increasing awareness
However, usually they contain many kinds of
To comply with the increasing about the environmental
oligomeric impurities due to the fundamental
and diverging requirements impact of industrialisation,
instability of the acrylate moiety during the synthesis
for today’s inkjet technology, waterborne UV-curable
process. Those impurities induce higher viscosity of
a fundamental understanding coatings have gained
the material because they have a higher molecular
of the underlying processes is very important. It considerable importance due to their many
weight than the monomer itself. Osaka Organic
is essential that decisions can be made based on advantages such as being environmentally benign,
Chemical has a proprietary distillation facility to offer
theoretical, numerical or experimental models as firm fast drying, low VOC, viscosity-controlled and low
higher purity, lower viscosity acrylate monomers
basis for further product development. We develop odour. In this rapidly evolving segment, many
than other manufacturers. This presentation shows
the experimental techniques, numerical codes photoinitiators (PI) needed for UV curing aren't water
how high purity acrylate monomers are good for UV/
and theoretical frameworks in close collaboration soluble or compatible, stunting the growth of this
EB inkjet systems with the intention to motivate new
with academic research groups. Some highlights attractive slice of business. IGM Resins has created a
business ideas.
of this research program will be presented e.g. the new line of water soluble/compatible acylphosphine
quantitative detection of misting down to 1 femtolitre oxide-based photoinitiators that are key enablers of
drops with a laser-induced fluorescence technique, progress in this growing segment of the UV curing
the evaporation-induced segregation process within industry and in particular in water-based inks. This
a single sessile drop with confocal laser microscopy IGM presentation will focus on new developments
and the migration of drops on a thin liquid layer with and PI solutions for waterborne UV curable systems
digital holographic cameras, supported by numerical with some preliminary evaluation results.
simulations and theoretical evaluations.
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IMI Europe Inkjet Ink Development Conference 2019
Wednesday 10 – Thursday 11 April 2019
The impact of drying technology on image Substrate wetting additives for aqueous Media qualification for high speed inkjet
quality and substrate compatibility single-pass inkjet inks
Dr Alice Zhang
Frank de Jonge Dr Vedran Durasevic Print Specialist, Ricoh UK
Sales Director, Adphos Head of Digital Inks, Evonik Products
Cost and compliance of the Stabilised pigment dispersions Media is one of the key
ink are key factors to consider and substrate wetting additives factors in an inkjet system. It
when high performance inkjet are the most important affects print outputs such as
print-systems are positioned building blocks formulators run-ability, dry time, image
to replace analogue printing use in design of ink systems. quality and post finishing results. There are different
presses. Whether in book-printing, transactional, They will determine jetting behaviour of an ink and types of inkjet technologies in the current market
textile or packaging, in comparison with UV and dictate sustainability of the process. Selection of that allow the user to print on various types of media,
E-Beam cured inks, water-based inks have advantages wetting additives in industrial inkjet is governed by such as paper, plastics, cardboard, foil etc. Paper is
in cost and compliance. Water-based inks achieve strict formulation principles that have to be followed the most common substrate used by high speed
certification for food- and skin contact, both in to achieve optimum drop spread within given time. inkjet systems. So how is paper made? Why is paper
primary food packaging and in hygienic products or This talk will focus on associating general chemical important in an inkjet system? How can we choose
apparel. But what to do with the water after the ink composition of surfactants with their behaviour in the right paper to meet customer requirements?
hits the substrates? Adphos specialises in the drying low viscosity aqueous ink systems. Experimental data How do we handle paper during printing? This talk
and curing of water- and solvent-based inks. We that demonstrates theoretical division of surfactants will focus on paper knowledge and print quality
explain the principle of near-IR drying and compare into ‘static-/dynamic- surface tension reduction’ assessment in order to answer all these questions.
it with hot air and mid-wave IR drying performance. and ‘super-wetter’ additives that do not support
We will share our experience at drying of water- stabilisation of foam will be shown. 16.00 Conference ends
based inks on different substrates like paper, metal or
flexible film.
Refreshment Break
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theory behind the many types of inkjet technology
The course is led by Dr Tim Phillips of Catenary
used today and aims to give your understanding of
Solutions (formerly of Xennia Technology).
the industry an expert start.
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