Industrial Inkjet for Additive Manufacturing
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The document discusses how inkjet technology can enable the future growth of additive manufacturing. It notes that inkjet is already driving adoption through mature processes like binder and material jetting. The author argues that inkjet is a commercially mature technology that can leverage innovations from 2D printing. The company Meteor Inkjet provides a complete end-to-end solution including electronics, software, tools and services to simplify the path to production for 3D inkjet printer manufacturers.
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- 1. Industrial Inkjet for Additive Manufacturing: The Future is Now! Neil Firth, Meteor Inkjet Ltd Rapid + TCT, May 2022
- 2. The Future is Now! Inkjet can drive adoption of Additive Manufacturing ? Happening now through advanced processes such as Binder and Material Jetting
- 3. The Future is Now! Inkjet is a commercially mature technology ? Meteor Inkjet ¨C what we do ? 3D can take advantage of innovations developed for 2D
- 4. The Future is Now! A complete end-to-end solution is available today ? Meteor, with our partners Dyndrite and Xaar, can simplify the path to production for 3D inkjet printer manufacturers
- 6. What is inkjet? ? Inkjet is a precision, drop on demand, fluid deposition technology
- 7. Inkjet Capability Can jet a wide variety of different fluids Headline Figures ? Single digit picolitre drop-sizes ? 100kHz printing frequency ? 1200dpi resolution ? 100cP viscosity at jetting temperatures
- 8. Processes - Binder jetting ? Sand binder jet for metal casting ? Sintering of metals and ceramics ? Composite, blended alloys with nano particles ? Functional, high strength and exotic materials Images: FormNext AM Field Guide
- 9. Processes - Material jetting ? Waxes and UV cured polymers ? Nano particle metals ? Multi-colour, co-moulding and multi- materials ? High resolution, less mess, low waste ? Accuracy in the order of microns Images: FormNext AM Field Guide
- 10. Inkjet Suits Additive Manufacturing 3D printing Rapid prototyping One-off models Home use Additive Manufacture Highly detailed, functional components Batch manufacturing Streamlined processes Workflow integration Archivable parts, quality control, repeatability, certification Efficiency and sustainability ? Inkjet is industrial technology, so can be costly and complex
- 11. The Future is Now! ? Inkjet comprises less than 2% of the global additive manufacturing space ¡°Market growth is hindered by low SME manufacturing uptake due to misconceptions of AM prototyping benefits, coupled with high initial investment cost vs low R&D budgets and fragmentation resulting in a lack of standard processes¡±* ? Inkjet enables innovation in production, driving change *Source: Grand View Research ? While it is easy to see the potential benefits, adoption of this technology is complex
- 12. Inkjet is commercially mature
- 13. Meteor designs and supplies electronics, software, tools & services for industrial inkjet systems Meteor Inkjet
- 15. ? Modular, production-ready electronics for scalable implementation ? Solutions for all major industrial inkjet printheads Meteor Electronics
- 16. . . . . Meteor is a member of the Hybrid Software Group . . . . RIP and workflow software for flexo and digital printing electronics software, tools and services for industrial inkjet prepress software for flexo and digital printers workflow software for printing organisations colour profiling and conversion software interactive 3D modelling software for packaging
- 17. Meteor has customers in 44 countries worldwide
- 18. Commercial Print Ceramic Tiles Product Decoration Textiles Packaging 3D & Additive Manufacturing Labels Signs, Displays & Decor Meteor customers operate in a wide variety of markets
- 19. Experts in 2D inkjet ?So what? ?Commercial maturity ? Reduced risk of adoption ? Faster time to market ? Enables focus on innovation and IP ?3D can take advantage of innovations developed for 2D
- 21. Jetting Difficult Materials ? High viscosity ? Ability to optimise for a broad range of high viscosity materials using waveform manipulation ? Extreme viscosity jetting ? Nano materials ? Recirculation ? Conductive inks (aqueous inks) ? Wide variation of printheads available
- 22. Wave form development for novel materials in real-time Measure ? Time of flight ? Drop volume DropWatcher
- 23. High Laydown Technology ? Xaar¡¯s High Laydown Technology deposits large quantities of fluid in each pass ? Varnish ? Tactile embellishments ? Braille and warning triangles ? Gloss and adhesive effects on ceramics ? Additive manufacturing applications benefit from increased printing productivity and more robust components Images: Courtesy of Xaar
- 24. Greyscale ? Greyscale is used to control drop formation ? Each pixel can have 1,2 or 4 bits ? Controls the waveform duration
- 25. GreyScale - 2D vs 3D In conventional inkjet printing larger drops produce a darker visual appearance In 3D/AM inkjet printing larger drops can produce higher mass density
- 26. Greyscale Applications ¨C 3D ? Mixing materials ? Meta Additive ? Shell lattice core for binder jetting ? Used in sand casting
- 27. Screening and RIP Technologies ? Opportunity to introduce algorithms into the workflow ? Designed to optimise color reproduction and combat mottling and streaking ? Accurately manipulate the gray-level of each voxel
- 28. End to End Solution
- 29. The Future is Now! Meteor, with our partners Dyndrite and Xaar, help simplify the path to production for 3D inkjet printer manufacturers
- 30. End to End 3D Inkjet System CAD Native or STL, OBJ Design (CAD) Build Preparation Printer Slicer or toolpath Meteoryte? & Met3D TIFF slices
- 31. The Future is Now! ? Inkjet can drive adoption of advanced Additive Manufacturing processes ? Inkjet is a commercially mature industrial technology ? Meteor and our partners Dyndrite and Xaar, can radically simplify the path to production ? Focus on your innovative application and IP, reduce time to market and minimise risk
- 32. enquiries@meteorinkjet.com +44 34 5844 0012 www.meteorinkjet.com www.linkedin.com/company/meteor-inkjet @Meteor_Inkjet
Editor's Notes
- #2: My name is Neil Firth Product Manager Meteor Inkjet based in Cambridge I¡¯m going to talk to you today about¡ And I¡¯m apparently going to transport you, by PowerPoint, into the future¡
- #3: A revolution that is happening now!
- #10: Bio-medical Bio sensors Food Cake decorations and even meat! Functional printing Conductive inks Electronic PCBs with integrated electronics, OLED, wearable technology, E Inks
- #12: Low market penetration = big opportunity¡ Currently available inkjet systems are mostly proprietary from the likes of HP, Stratasys, Mimaki Inkjet 3D currently forms about 1.5% of the global market (=> US$ 1 billion 2028) Inkjet, DMLS and beam curing/sintering are expected to grow fastest
- #14: We supply printer manufacturers and systems integrators Been doing this in one form or another for 20 years Don¡¯t make printers ourselves
- #17: These are mainly 2D¡ Get some group figures
- #18: Get some data¡
- #20: Apart from a sales pitch, why am I telling you all this?
- #23: Here is an example of the benefits of a dropwatcher assembly built into or stand alone from the prototype can give.
- #24: Of course Meteor is compatible with High Laydown Technology
- #32: Democratised solution¡