These plastic safety socket covers were printed with the PromoJET solvent inkjet. The flatbed inkjet’s tooling table accommodates between 50-60 of these covers; printing the whole table takes under 10 minutes.

With the solvent inkjet’s software, you can easily work with photographs and promotional logos. In this case, Gregg cropped the graphics into circular shapes. Gregg used heat gun for superior adhesion, and the prints successfully passed both the scratch and clear tape tests. Read more

We have just concluded successful tests of a new ink product – Opal P series inkjet ink for promotional stress balls, pens and cell phone covers, especially those made of polycarbonates, polyurethanes, polystyrenes and other solvent-sensitive, absorbent and outgassing materials. The Opal P (for “pen”) series is available as an alternative to standard Opal series used by the PromoJET industrial inkjet printer.

Printing on promotional stress balls is one of the applications that Opal P is great for. Look at the picture: it was taken 12 days after the stress balls were printed. With many other inks on the market, the image on such material would have faded within a few days. The reason it normally happens is because polyurethane emits gases that dissolve ink; the other process that could have happened is the ink “sinking” into the porous material. But because the Opal P ink has very high level of chemical resistance and thicker consistency than the standard inkjet inks, the print stays in its place, nice and crisp!

A Tip on How To Inkjet Print Larger Image on Curved Surface

The other interesting thing that this picture demonstrates is the way to use the PromoJET inkjet to print a larger size image onto a sphere. We achieved a larger print by decreasing the resolution: the image on the right is 1 ¼” at 1440 dpi, the image on the left is 1.5” at 720 dpi. Read More