Chemistry and Technology of Printing and Imaging Systems
Printing and imaging has a major impact on everyone. From the obvious examples of newspapers, magazines and comics through to photographs, currency and credit cards, and even the less obvious example of compact discs, everyone is familiar with the end pro
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Chemistry and Technology of Printing and Imaging Systems Edited by
P. GREGORY Zeneca Specialties Manchester
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
First edition 1996
© 1996 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht OriginalIy published by Chapman & HalI in 1996 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover lst edition 1996 Typeset in 10/12pt Times by Cambrian Typesetters, Frim1ey, Surrey ISBN 978-94-010-4265-9 ISBN 978-94-011-0601-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-0601-6
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Preface
Printing and imaging has a major impact on everyone. From the obvious examples of newspapers, magazines and comics through to photographs, currency and credit cards, and even the less obvious example of compact discs, everyone is familiar with the end products of printing and imaging. Until recently, the major printing and imaging technologies have been impact printing and silver halide photography. Important impact printing technologies are offset lithography, gravure, flexography and screen printing. All these technologies, including silver halide photography, are mature and have changed little over the past few decades. In contrast, the phenomenal growth of silicon chip technology over the past 15 years or so has spawned a new era of printing and imaging systems, the so-called nonimpact (or electronic) printers. Not all the non-impact printing technologies are of equal commercial importance. Some, like diazotype and conventional photolithography, are mature and are declining in importance. Other technologies, though relatively new, have not achieved notable commercial success. Electrography and magnetography fall into this category. The remaining technologies such as optical data storage (the technology used in compact discs), thermography (the technology used in electronic photography), inkjet printing and electrophotography are the non-impact printing technologie
