Application Development
Inkjet print experts guiding ink development using data-driven analysis to deliver optimum performance.
Expert-led collaborative development
Application Development is a core feature of Fujifilm’s ink development process for your inkjet print system. It ensures ink meets the precise requirements of the specification, and delivers the right performance in the print system, production processes and real-world application.
The benefits it delivers for you:
- Access to expert specialists throughout complex projects
- Collaborative problem-solving
- Qualified ink performance
- Confidence in known outcomes
Inside Fujifilm's cutting-edge facility
Get an insight into the capabilities within Fujifilm’s Application Development centre. This single-pass inkjet equipment was built for ink testing and offline analysis, simulating production systems, in laboratory-controlled conditions.
Collaboration through complex developments
Our approach, using technical experts in inkjet print, ensures efficient problem-solving during complex ink developments, to achieve successful outcomes.
Through our team of inkjet Application Specialists, who understand the whole application environment – ink characteristics, print system, print processes and final product – we offer comprehensive support during a development.
And leveraging Fujifilm’s extensive inkjet know-how, we can assist you in bridging gaps in your inkjet knowledge.
Delivering a robust ink development
Qualified ink performance
Application Development is an essential pillar of Fujifilm’s ink development program, that aims to deliver fully validated performance.
Alongside lab-based testing and feedback, our Application Specialists provide an objective, independent review of ink performance – facilitating informed decision-making and optimization of ink and fluid formulations.
Confidence in known outcomes
When ink performance is fully understood, it simplifies the process of optimizing for system reliability. Application Development provides expert data generation and analysis, to provide insight and recommendations that inform the ink development. It is presented in an accessible format for customers and formulation teams.
It maps the characteristics and limits of the ink to define the operating window and provide early identification of performance against the specification, through simulated evaluation.
Efficient development
Every inkjet ink development project receives tailored testing and validation to meet specific requirements.
Collaborating directly with the Ink Formulation team, Application Development bridges the gap between chemistry, in-system performance, and final application, making informed recommendations to achieve optimal performance.
From specification to market-ready ink
We work with you to understand and help define your exact requirements – considering intended final application, productivity targets, printhead selection and pre- and post-print processes.
There are four critical evaluation stages in an ink development:
Data-driven insights
Application Specialists perform hundreds of tests throughout a development, pushing ink to its limits to ensure it meets the target specification. From adhesion, rub and chemical resistance, color reproduction properties and color shift, to image quality, finish, surface cure, printing sustainability, open-time, odour, post-processes, and maintenance regimes.
They report data back with valuable insights to inform the ink and print system development, in an accessible format for everyone involved.
Supported by the latest inkjet development equipment
Fujifilm’s Application Development Centre is a state-of-the-art testing and validation facility inkjet ink development, located in Europe. Equipped with cutting-edge printing and testing equipment, the centre enables analysis and optimization of ink performance before on-press trials.
By simulating critical elements of the print system and process in controlled laboratory conditions, our Application Specialists assess ink performance, image quality, and essential parameters vital for successful ink development.
Exploring the possibilities of inkjet?
For customers exploring the possibilities of digital printing, the centre is open to understand the potential of inkjet in your process.
Contact us to arrange a visit.