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Full-wrap cylindrical printing also benefits from seamless borders with no visual overlap. For ease of print file preparation, original design artwork should be able to be imaged on cylinders and tapered items without the need for manipulation or distortion; i.e., flat images will print to scale on a
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Helical Printing: Helical printing is a hybrid method between the single-pass and multi-pass approaches. Image data is mapped to allow continuous imaging in a helical pattern with a limited number of print heads. Users can optimize the print resolution, speed, and curing controls to optimize image
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Single Pass: Single pass involves using an array of print heads to print the full image length with a single revolution of the printed object. Different colors are usually printed at different stations, leading to higher cost, increased complexity, and sensitivity to print nozzle drop-outs.  
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Digital cylinder printing is when a machine directly lays ink onto a curved surface that usually is the wall of an object that has a circular cross section, and a constant, tapered, or variable diameter. Digital cylinder printing is a method of reproducing black-and-white or full-color images and
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of all types as finished pieces or as an element in a further art piece. Experimental artists often add texture or other media to the surface of a final print, or use it as part of a mixed-media work. Many terms for the process have been used over the years, including "digigraph" and "giclée".
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in the image detail. The archival quality of the print is as high as the manufacturer's rating for any given photo paper used. In large format prints, the greatest advantage is that, since no lens is used, there is no vignetting or detail distortion in the corners of the image.
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The digital cylindrical printing process involves inserting a cylinder-shaped item, or part, into a fixture, which securely holds it in place. The part then travels under a print head mechanism in which tiny droplets of
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Items that can be printed using digital cylindrical processes include cups, tumblers, thermos bottles, bottles, makeup containers, machine parts, carrier tubes, pens, tubes, jars and others.
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Architectural Design – new media that conforms to a variety of surfaces has enabled interior and exterior spaces to be transformed using digitally printed wall murals and floor graphics.
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The ability of digital cylinder printing machines to print full color in one pass, including primers, varnishes and specialty inks, enables multiple design techniques, which include:
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does not permeate the substrate, as does conventional ink, but forms a thin layer on the surface that may be additionally adhered to the substrate by a fuser fluid with thermal (
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was the standard for fine art digital printmaking for many years, and is still in use today, but has been superseded by large-format printers from other manufacturers such as
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Fine art digital inkjet printing is printing from a computer image file directly to an inkjet printer as a final output. It evolved from digital proofing technology from
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quality or choose higher speed if quality isn't critical. Tapers can be imaged at high speed and curved vessels can be managed through the range of controls offered.
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curved surface, with software automatically making the adjustment. The more advanced systems available on the market can handle these requirements.
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For artists making reproductions of their original work, inkjet printing is more expensive on a per-print basis than the traditional four-color
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There are three different imaging techniques used by digital cylinder printing machines: multi-pass, single pass, and helical printing.
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Thousands of print shops and digital printmakers now offer services to painters, photographers, and digital artists around the world.
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machines to fine-art printing. There was experimentation with many of these types of printers, the most notable being the
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area where the user wants the sleeking to take place. The machine registers this and only adheres to this specific area.
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Multi-Pass: Multi-pass printing is when the print heads or printed object move axially in steps down the part, like a
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with lasers and processed in photographic developers and fixers. These prints are true photographs and have
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methods, but this price is usually offset by avoiding the cost of all the technical steps required to make
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Substrates in fine art inkjet printmaking include traditional fine-art papers such as Rives BFK, Arches
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printer allowed the use of a variety of papers that included traditional and non-traditional media. The
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text onto cylindrical objects, typically promotional products, through use of digital imaging systems.
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Digital printing has many advantages over traditional methods. Some applications of note include:
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Large format printing of black numbers on a brushed aluminum sheet by a Mimaki inkjet printer
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printing company in 1991. Initially, these printers were limited to glossy papers, but the
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Fine art – archival digital printing methods include real photo paper exposure prints and
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Photos – digital printing has revolutionized photo printing in terms of the ability to
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Tone on tone: solid matte-finished substrate enhanced with one ink or clear coat
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The greatest difference between digital printing and analog methods, such as
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and event signage, in trade shows, in the retail sector at point of sale or
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and other digital sources are printed using large-format and/or high-volume
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Martin Lister; Jon Dovey; Seth Giddings; Kieran Kelly; Iain Grant (2009).
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Mirror prints: viewable on the inside and outside of glass or plastic
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Marianne Hörlesberger; Mohamed El-Nawawi; Tarek M. Khalil (2007).
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Digital printing has a higher cost per page than more traditional
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The digital process is by definition faster than conventional
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Digital images are exposed onto true, light sensitive
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Digital inkjet printing also allows for the output of
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to add a glossy finish and protect it from abrasion.
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prints on watercolor paper using pigment based inks.
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