Why are UV Printers Much More Expensive than Ordinary Printers?

Sometimes the price is not just a little bit more expensive, but more than ten times or dozens of times more expensive. First, let’s understand from the definition that UV printers are actually industrial printers. Ordinary printers are what we often call office printers. They are not of the same order of magnitude in size alone. Today we will talk about why the price difference is from several aspects. big.
The reasons are as follows:

1. From the appearance point of view, UV printers are much larger and heavier than ordinary printers. This is a very intuitive feeling. Ordinary printers only weigh a dozen kilograms, dozens more kilograms. The lightweight A4 and A3 models of UV printers weigh dozens to hundreds of kilograms. The medium-sized 6090, 1290 and other models basically weigh more than 100 kilograms. Some of the large machines above 2513 weigh several hundred kilograms.

2. The difference between uv printers and ordinary printers. Taking the small A4 machine as an example, the biggest difference between a UV printer and an ordinary printer is that it has a whole set of UV systems. The uv system includes, uv lamp, cooling system, and control system. The UV lamp is the key to instant solidification of UV ink, the cooling system is the key to ensuring the service life of the UV lamp, and the control system coordinates their good cooperative operation with other parts of the machine.

3. In terms of nozzles, ordinary inkjet printers are only used to meet the needs of picture printing, and the inks used are mostly solvent-based inks. The UV ink used by UV printers is more corrosive and is used to print relief effects. Most of them use separate nozzles to spray white ink. Later, in order to increase the gloss, additional nozzles are needed to specifically spray varnish. Therefore, UV printers usually use more nozzles. Thirdly, in order to meet the needs of large-scale production in factories, the Ricoh and Kyocera nozzles used in UV printers are all imported, so they are relatively expensive. Epson nozzles are relatively cheaper, but more suitable for small-scale, customized production.

4. Other accessories. Since the letter truck carries many nozzles, it weighs a lot. During the back-and-forth printing, coupled with the high printing height, greater inertial force will inevitably be generated. Therefore, when designing the machine, it is necessary to have better guide rails, gratings, and use motors with more precise control. In order to ensure the absolute flatness of large machine platforms, laser cleaning is sometimes used. Larger machines will also be equipped with an air suction platform and adopt double guide rails.

A good-quality UV printer contains a lot of things, and it is reasonable to expect that the price is more expensive. The application scenarios are also diverse and cannot be compared with the same, so there is no comparability in terms of price.