Ink-jet
Printing Technologies in Industrial Applications
Abstract:
Currently,
drop-on-demand ink-jet printing is the mainstream of ink jet technology,
which is an ink or liquid delivery system. The advantage of ink-jet
technology is that it is a real non-contact printing. The
application of ink-jet technology in printer has created a more than
$30 billions industry and is still growing. Applications
other than printer are emerging such as microarray for genes and
proteins in biotechnology and potential usage in
liquid crystal device
(LCD) etc.
In this talk, I will
focus in the following three areas:
I. Ink-jet
technologies
The basic principle and disciplines
of thermal ink-jet printing technology and the common
issues of inks will be
briefly discussed.
II. Nano-partcle in
ink and its requirements
Miniaturization of colorants to nano size
for ink jet inks and current status of “nano particle” in
ink-jet printing applications will be presented
.Traditional methods and their issues will also be discussed.
III. Applications
Current ink jet
printing is mainly used in home and office applications. Nano
particle inkjet inks can open up a much wider application
area. One of the potential applications is in the color filters
for LCD. Its feasibility has been demonstrated but has
not yet been commercialized due to the lack of colorants
with high color purity, archival property and reproducibility
etc. Other graphic and
photo applications and potential new area applications
will be discussed.
Speaker Bio:
Bob Lin, Ph.D.(林安正博士)
has been the president of IJP Solutions since its inception in 2002.
He was a member of the Technical Staff and Project Leader
in HP-Labs of
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Company. While at
HP, Bob was in charge of developing ink-jet inks and
other areas related to the printing technology. Before
joining HP, Bob was a
Senior Engineering Manager at Exxon/Dataproducts
before it was acquired by Hitachi. Before
Exxon, he had been a Senior Chemist and project leader at
Burroughs
(Now Unisys).
Bob has authored numerous technical
papers and is the holder of 33 US patents (more than 100
international). Bob was an invited speaker in numerous conferences/meetings such as Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)-Industrial Technology Research Institute, DIPC
(Digital Image Printing Conference), Digital Image Printing
Technologies in Multimedia Symposium, Bis Strategic
Decision of Ink Jet Printing Technologies Conference etc. He
was a section chairman and/or co-chairman of numerous
technical conferences such as the Ink Jet Section
Chairman at International Imaging Congress of IS&T,
the “Telecommunication and Networking in
Asia” Conference etc. He also served as the president and
chairman of the Chinese American Photonics Society in the
United States. He earned his B.S. degree in chemistry
from National Taiwan Normal University, and his Ph.D.
degree in physical organic chemistry from Illinois Institute
of Technology. He continued his research as a post-doctoral
fellow/instructor at University of Rochester.
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