High humidity and high temperatures aren’t only found in tropical and subtropical climate zones, such as Southeast Asia. These extreme conditions are also often encountered in many production environments such as those in the beverage, food and packaging sectors.
LEIBINGER has developed an ink portfolio that can easily deal with these challenging production environments. However, there are applications and production processes where the ambient conditions impact on the inks’ processing and adhesion properties. Examples of this include food that is pre-cooked and filled during production, or printing cables in areas with high humidity and temperatures. Together with its customers, LEIBINGER has taken a closer look at these challenges and developed a solution to ensure maximum coding and marking efficiency and reliability.
One of the solutions includes the advanced air dryer feature, which counteracts high humidity and extreme temperatures to ensure the best printing results in challenging production environments.
Continuous inkjet printers (CIJ) use a continuous inkjet to print best-before dates, texts, codes or other markings. Conventional printers can cause condensation on the printhead if the humidity is very high. Humidity can also affect both the inks’ viscosity and drying time. A solution developed by LEIBINGER with an integrated air dryer prevents this from happening and guarantees the inks’ adhesion and rapid drying – along with seamless and smooth operation.
In short, the LEIBINGER air dryer draws in the humid ambient air, removes the moisture from it and directs the resulting dry air into the printhead. This ensures a dry environment in the printhead, in contrast to the surrounding production environment.
‘As a leading international coding and marking specialist, we listen closely to our customers and develop solutions to support them in their day-to-day operations. This is exactly how the air dryer feature originated. Under extreme ambient conditions, it ensures that CIJ printers can reliably deliver the best possible print results at all times, including high print adhesion,’ explained Alexander Deuchert, Head of Product Management at LEIBINGER.
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