WURZBURG, GERMANY—December 1, 2014—On Nov. 29, 1814, 360 years after Gutenberg invented the hand press, a new steam-powered double-cylinder printing press from Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Bauer was ...

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How does a typical printing machine work? Today's most common printing machines use a flexographic process. Flexography is a direct rotary printing method that uses a raised image surface to print on ...

Researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) have used indirect gravure printing for front-side metallization of silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells, ...

One of the challenges in both selling (and using) digital printing is in expanding the range of applications and products that it can be used for. A digital printing implementation is typically not a ...

This could even be dangerous for the operators of the machines, so it is the matter of safety. To avoid this, composite cylinders should be modified with electrically conductive additives so as to ...

MR. BENNETT describes in clear and simple language every step of the process of the making of photogravure prints by the screen plate process, leaving the original dust-grain process with little more ...

Germany’s Fraunhofer ISE and ASYS Automatisierungssysteme GmbH have evaluated and developed rotation processes for the production of silicon solar cells. The so-called “Rock Star” research project has ...

Visitors view the B3000L MAX launched by Beiren Intelligent at Beijing Xinhua Printing Co Ltd's printing workshop in Beijing on May 16. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Chinese printing equipment ...