Non-Impact Printing Technology

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  • OMODANI Makoto
    Department of Optical and Imaging Science & Technology, School of Engineering, Tokai University.
  • OKA Tateki
    Development Division 12, Imaging Products R&D Headquarters Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
  • MATSUDA Hiroto
    Strategic Product Research Headquarters, Canon Inc.
  • YUI Kazufumi
    Digital Printing Business Planning Group Graphic System Business Div. FUJIFILM Corporation

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  • ノンインパクトプリンティング技術
  • ノンインパクト プリンティング ギジュツ

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NIP (Non-impact printing) technology made a marked advance in 70's and 80's. Now, we can hardly see impact printers like wire-dot printer in offices. Non-impact printers are the most popular printing equipments. Printing with NIP technology is called "Plate-less Printing" or "Digital Printing" in Japan. The feature of it is that time to obtain first print is short. It is suitable method for the print of many varieties and a small amount. Therefore, it has established the position in the market. NIP technology is advancing in speed and image quality, and is competing with common printing technology. Recently, the other use of NIP technology has been developed. For instance, ink jet technology is applied to making electric circuits. Thus NIP technology is being widely applied in other industries. In this chapter, the overview of the NIP technology is described in section 1. The typical NIP technologies, Electrophotography and ink jet printing technologies are described in section 2 and 3, respectively. Trend of digital printing in graphic market is described in section 4.

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