Print Media and Packaging Technologies (Bachelor, 7 Semester, Zulassung ab Wintersemester 2024/2025), Prüfungsleistung im Modul Digital Printing
in Semester
3
Häufigkeit: nur WS
Workload:
Lecture in Digital Printing:
14 lectures of 3h each = 42h
Self-dependent learning and preparation for the exam: 108h
Workload: 150h in total = 5ECTS
Prüfungsform:
Bemerkung zur Veranstaltung:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Contents of Lecture:
Overview, terminology, foundations
Digitally printed products, economic significance, markets and projections
Halftone processes: Generation of gray values in digital printing
Screening processes in digital printing
Printing resolution, optical resolution, number of gray levels, and how these quantities are related to print quality
Functional principle of electrophotography (including the physical backgrounds)
Design principles of print engines and their subsystems
Design principles of electrophotographic presses, applications in the field, advantages and disadvantages
Liquid toner (HP Indigo)
Functional principles of Continuous Inkjet, Thermal Inkjet, and Piezo Inkjet (including the physical backgrounds)
Design principles of inkjet printheads
Inkjet inks, their interaction with substrates, pretreatments, and the relation to printing quality
Design principles of inkjet presses, applications in the field, advantages and disadvantages
