Objective
The industrial sector of industrial printing is waiting for a radical innovation: in fact since the latest '80s, the worldwide market has been more and oriented to customized printing products, which has caused a high fragmentation of the production. The direct consequence has been the reduction of batch size and for this reason the industrial printing companies has turned their attention to digital printers, that offer more flexibility than the serigraphic ones (but lower quality of the printed product and lower productivity rates).The LASERIS system should match the high quality offered by the traditional serigraphic printing process while providing the flexibility as for the digital printers. To achieve this important result a breakthrough technology will be developed in this project: a laser beam will interact with irreversible thermo-chromic inks (i.e. lacquers including pigments sensible to the temperature changes) spread over a substrate. The special ink layer will remain transparent before the laser treatment but will change permanently its colouration when activated by the laser beam, which follows the desired pattern to generate the coloured image.
The Consortium will develop specific modules (to be housed in the existing serigraphic printers) for feeding the printing process with the support chosen (paper, plastic foils, etc.), spreading thermochromic ink over them, and activating the thermochromic pigments by means of a laser beam. Software will drive the laser scanning head, which enables the laser beam to focus on each printing dot (for activating the ink), in order to obtain the desired image.
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FP6-2003-SME-1
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ROMA
Italy
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