Inkjet printing

KCL has invested in building a world-class testing and research environment for the inkjet printing. The investments combined with the expertise in printing, paper and paper coating technologies as well as end-use research makes KCL a unique service supplier for the whole value chain of print media and packaging.

The target at KCL is to increase the development of inkjet by offering facilities and competence to different industry players. KCL´s unique skills and facilities enable the company to create consortia of suppliers and end- users with benefits such as:

to evaluate market potential, print quality and runnability of existing grades for high resolution inkjet
to develop new products for the growing high quality inkjet market ·to solve specific troubleshooting cases in inkjet printing
to benchmark competitors against own quality
to generate instructions for print houses how to use substrate on inkjet press
to qualify certain combinations of substrate, ink and print heads

Equipment

KCL Inkjet environment consists of two inkjet printing techniques:

Kodak Versamark VL2000 - a four color drop on demand press (DOD),
Kodak Prosper S10 print heads, which has the latest continuous ink jet (CIJ) technology. Two Prosper print heads are integrated to our existing heatset press. This allows you also to conduct hybrid production testing.

Sheet-fed Offset Printing Gravure

Inkjet printing

Equipment

Contact

Juha Turunen

Raimo Pollari

Oy Keskuslaboratorio - Centrallaboratorium Ab