• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.545-553
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• 2012

This paper reports the development of an automatic system for mixing offset printing ink. The ink mixing process is important in industrial fields where paint and ink are used. In particular, there is a demand for automating the process of producing spot colors, which involves mixing a small quantity of high-viscosity ink. The authors designed, fabricated, and experimentally tested an automatic mixing system that employs the revolution and rotation of ink and the transmission by belts. The performance of the ink mixing system was verified by conducting numerous experiments to determine the effect of rotation direction, speed, ink container axis angle, and ink amount. Conditions suitable for mixing offset ink are presented for use as guidelines for producing spot colors.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.787-793
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• 1996

In this paper, to investigate the effect of the offset ink formulation on deinking of Korean old newspaper, the samples printed with five different types of offset ink were aged naturally for 10, 30, 90, 180 days, and then yield, brightness, fiber length, physical properties(tensile, tear, burst index) were evaluated according to aging time. As the aging time increased, the yield and brightness of respective samples decreased. Particially, as the addition amounts of linseed oil increased, those of samples decreased. Therefore, linseed oil is thought to reduce the deinkability of ink. Also, containing rosin-modified phenolic resin and gilsonite seem to reduce brightness of samples according aging time. In physical properties, tensile index and burst index were roughly decreased, but tear index was increased according to aging time. However, the three indexes of the sample containing only linseed oil as the vehicle component were considerably reduced in comparison with those of other samples, as once crosslinked a strong bond between the ink and fibers was produced and made it difficult to defibrate in producing sheets.

• The monthly packaging world
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• s.122
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• pp.62-69
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• 2003

• Proceedings of the Korea Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.17-17
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• 2005

• The monthly packaging world
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• s.114
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• pp.68-73
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• 2002

• Proceedings of the Korea Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.121-134
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• 2003

최근의 많은 연구로부터 인쇄광택에 대한 코팅구조의 영향이 보고되고, 거론되고 있다. 그러나, 다각적이고, 다양한 잉크량 범위에서 인쇄광택의 개별적 인자에 대한 독립적 영향은 보고된 바 없다. 본 고에서는 다양한 코팅재료와 이어진 캘린더링 공정을 조합하여 Full-factorial실험설계에 준한 모델시료를 제작하고, 특성화하였다. 더불어 공극이 없지만 넓은 범위의 거칠음 수준을 가진 필름을 포함하였다. 통계도구를 사용하여 각 인자의 독립적인 영향을 추출하므로써, 각 구조인자의 함수로서 인쇄광택의 정량적인 반응도를 얻을 수 있었다. 결과는 60도와 75도 광택으로 표현하였다. 잉크공급량의 증가는 코팅층 거칠음의 영향을 약화는 시키되 배제시킬 수는 없었다. Matte급의 코팅층에 대한 인쇄광택은 코팅거칠음이 가장 큰 영향인자로 나타났다. 이는, 잉크필름의 Leveling을 저해하는, 큰 잉크필름의 분열형태와 코팅면을 따라 흐르며 형성되는 잉크필름 때문으로 생각되었다. 공극구조의 영향은 전반적으로 높은 잉크량과 백지광택수준에서 가장 크게 나타났다. 전체적으로는 코팅거칠음이 인쇄광택에 가장 강한 인자였으며, 공극크기, 공극부피가 뒤를 이었다. 그러나, 광택지 영역에서는 공극크기가 가장 강한 영향인자로 구분되었으며, 거칠음, 공극부피가 뒤를 이었다. 이러한 결과는 인쇄품질 측면에서 코팅을 최적화하는데 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.96-102
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• 2008

Manufacturing of printed electronics using printing technology has begun to get into the hot issue in many ways due to the low cost effectiveness to existing semi-conductor process. This technology, with low cost and high productivity, can make it possible to produce printed electronics such as TFT, solar cell, RFID Tag, printed battery, and so on. In this study, apparatus of gravure-offset printing are developed for fine line-width/gap printing and the results obtained from the apparatus shows that it is possible to make around 20 micro-meter line-width/gap printing patterns. The roll-to-roll printing system for fine line-width printing based on primary experiment is presented. The printing results obtained from the system shows around 30 micro-meter line-width/gap printing patterns.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.38 no.8
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• pp.709-714
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• 2014

Reverse-offset printing is one of the technologies that can be used for patterning fine features of the order of a few micrometers for printed electronics. In reverse-offset printing, a coated ink film is transferred to a blanket made of elastomer-like poly-dimethylsiloxane. Then, the blanket is impressed onto a clich$\acute{e}$ that has intaglio patterns. The blanket is deformed by penetrating the intaglio of the clich$\acute{e}$ according to the printing pressure. Excessive deformation of the blanket can cause printing defects upon touching the bottom of the intaglio pattern, especially in large patterns. In this paper, we modelled the deformation of the blanket using the finite element method. Considering the actual printing parameters, a condition for fabricating a clich$\acute{e}$ is proposed to prevent defects by the deformation of the blanket.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.28 no.10
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• pp.1146-1152
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• 2011

Ink transfer process is very important to determine quality of printed pattern, therefore its mechanism should be understood to control printing quality. Although there have been many attempts to understand ink transfer mechanism by numerical simulation and experimental studies, their model was too much simple to model realistic printing process and our understanding is not enough yet. In this paper we designed ink transfer visualization system to present flow visualization of ink transfer process for gravure offset printing. We considered rotational effect of blanket roll which is related with printing speed and used non-Newtonian fluid as working fluid such as Ag paste. For printing unit, cantilever-type blanket roll is used for convenient visualization of ink transfer. Serial images were captured continuously by using high-speed CMOS camera and long range microscope. We investigated the effects of various design parameters such as printing speed and pattern angle on the ink transfer process. We found more stretched ink filament for non-Newtonian fluid than Newtonian fluid. As increasing printing speed, length of stretched ink filament and height of break-up point are also increased. We also compared ink transfer process between CD and MD pattern and its relationship with ink transfer mechanism.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.201-202
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• 2001

옵셋인쇄에서 종이로부터 나오는 이물질에 의한 인새 트러블은 자주발생되는 현상이다. 인쇄물 상에서 나타나는 이러한 현상은 주로 회색 반점이나 히키(Hickey, Catyes) 혹은 Blanket poling으로 나타난다. 원인에 따라 Dust, Linting, Picking, Delamination, Piling으로 나눌 수 있다. 인쇄에서 이물질의 발생에 영향을 주는 요소가 많고 일반적인 경우에는 복합적인 원인에 의한 경우가 많아 인쇄물만으로는 이물질의 종류나 발생 원인을 파악하기 어렵다. 본 연구는 자체 제작한 Test chart를 이용하여 실인쇄 실험을 함으로써 이물질의 종류와 발생 원인을 분석한 사레를 보고하고자 한다. Test chart의 구성은 동일 면적의 화선면적율 20, 50, 75, 100%를 갖도록 설계하였고, 인쇄중 잉크(1st oscillating roll). 습수통(Dampening founation solution), Blanket 표면온도를 측정하였으며, 일정 부수 인쇄 후 인쇄판, Blanket, 인쇄물을 회수하여 분석하였다.