About Printer

Printers are broadly divided into two types: analog and digital. The analog type is the type that applies ink to the plate and prints the ink on the recording medium like a rotary press (offset printing press) or pad printing press, and is suitable for printing large amounts of the same content at high speed. increase. The digital method, on the other hand, is a printing method that does not use a plate. There are various methods such as inkjet printers and electrophotography (laser printers), and it is suitable for small-lot, on-demand printing. Printers can also be categorized as home, business, commercial, and industrial, depending on their use. Inkjet printers are the most popular printers for home use. The two main types of business printers are laser printers and inkjet printers. For commercial printing, relatively large printing machines called production printers are used to print flyers and pamphlets. There are various types of printers for industrial use. Recording media are not limited to paper, but include a wide variety of materials such as metal, cloth, and plastic. A 3D printer, which is a three-dimensional modeling technology, creates three-dimensional objects using only a recording medium without using a recording medium. Unlike injection molding or casting, in which molding materials are poured into a mold, it is called a printer because it directly forms three-dimensional objects without using a mold. A UV printer is a printer that uses UV (ultraviolet) curable ink as a recording medium, and it mainly uses an inkjet method. It has been on the increase in recent years because it can provide highly robust printing without using volatile solvents.