05.24.16
Sensor Films Incorporated (SFI) has announced a new, high speed roll-to-roll configuration of its Starlight digital manufacturing and printing system, enabling high volume digital deposition of decorative graphic and functional inks on flexible substrates.
The new Spitfire® Digital Manufacturing and Printing Platform is a roll-to-roll ink jet deposition system that uses industrial ink jet technology to pattern materials such as UV inks, resists, conductors and dielectrics serving the digital display, specialty graphics and printable electronics industries.
The announcement was made during the 2016 Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week International Symposium and Exhibition in San Francisco, CA. (May 24th-26th), where the Starlight platform is being demonstrated as a means for the mass production of the next generation of flexible, low cost devices for rapid prototyping and high throughput manufacturing.
“The Spitfire, like its sheetfed sister product – the Starlight – offers numerous advantages,” said Peter Hessney, president, Sensor Films Inc. “Spitfire’s digital manufacturing capability delivers rapid prototyping and improved workflows, and allows for quick changeovers, reduced physical inventory and economical short run jobs.”
Among Spitfire’s other features:
• High resolution deposition of functional, decorative and stretchable inks.
• Printable textures to 200 microns.
• Print speeds of 200-feet per minute.
The core of the Spitfire system is rugged piezo inkjet head architecture, Hessney said. Utilizing stainless steel construction, Spitfire’s printheads are compatible with virtually any type of ink chemistry, including solvent, aqueous and UV inks.
“This opens up new opportunities to formulate functional materials for digital deposition to create components and devices that were previously cost prohibitive. Such new materials and processes will enable new products that are fast and efficient to produce and can be done so at low cost,” Hessney said.
The new Spitfire® Digital Manufacturing and Printing Platform is a roll-to-roll ink jet deposition system that uses industrial ink jet technology to pattern materials such as UV inks, resists, conductors and dielectrics serving the digital display, specialty graphics and printable electronics industries.
The announcement was made during the 2016 Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week International Symposium and Exhibition in San Francisco, CA. (May 24th-26th), where the Starlight platform is being demonstrated as a means for the mass production of the next generation of flexible, low cost devices for rapid prototyping and high throughput manufacturing.
“The Spitfire, like its sheetfed sister product – the Starlight – offers numerous advantages,” said Peter Hessney, president, Sensor Films Inc. “Spitfire’s digital manufacturing capability delivers rapid prototyping and improved workflows, and allows for quick changeovers, reduced physical inventory and economical short run jobs.”
Among Spitfire’s other features:
• High resolution deposition of functional, decorative and stretchable inks.
• Printable textures to 200 microns.
• Print speeds of 200-feet per minute.
The core of the Spitfire system is rugged piezo inkjet head architecture, Hessney said. Utilizing stainless steel construction, Spitfire’s printheads are compatible with virtually any type of ink chemistry, including solvent, aqueous and UV inks.
“This opens up new opportunities to formulate functional materials for digital deposition to create components and devices that were previously cost prohibitive. Such new materials and processes will enable new products that are fast and efficient to produce and can be done so at low cost,” Hessney said.