Keyboard Printing Technology Innovation

In recent years, with the development of keyboard manufacturing technology, some new printing technologies have emerged. The three types we will describe below are typical representatives of the new generation of keyboard printing technology.

Long ago, we once introduced in detail the three mainstream printing technologies of computer keyboards. So far, these three technologies are still the main printing methods used by most desktop and notebook keyboards.
But their respective shortcomings are still difficult to eliminate:

Laser printing is low in cost and printing is firm, but the fonts are not beautiful and can not be printed in color; the screen printing fonts are beautiful, but not strong; the printing method of the printing method is the most flexible, but the font is the most flexible, but its robustness is the worst.

In recent years, with the development of keyboard manufacturing technology, some new printing technologies have emerged. The three types we will describe below are representative of a new generation of keyboard printing technology. Their common feature is that they are dedicated to solving the problem of balance between the firmness and aesthetics of keyboard printing. But the price paid is that compared to the three traditional printing methods, the processes of the three new printing technologies are more complex and costly.

Laser Filling Technology

This type of technically printed keyboard has now begun to see some in the market, especially in black keyboards traditionally not suitable for laser printing. Its principle is a bit like "tattooing."

Tattooing is the use of needles to make fine lines on the skin, and then paint it with pigments so that the color will penetrate the lines of the skin and will not be washed or rubbed off afterwards. The same is true for laser filling technology.

Keyboards made with laser packing technology are first printed with laser printing and printing (but printed lighter than normal laser printing to keep the surface flat), and then used for secondary printing using a mimeograph, so that the cured ink will be The nicks left by the laser light penetrate into it and remain in it. After that, they will not be easily worn off.

The keyboard printed by the laser packing technology has been made up of the secondary printing of the ink, so it has made up for the disadvantages of poor laser printing type and the inability to print color, and because of the laser nicks as a basis, its firmness is much higher than that of the keyboard. Simple ink printing.

The second printing, whether it is the use of screen or pad printing, does not necessarily have a straight rule. However, in terms of the characteristics of the laser packing method, pad printing seems to be more in line with the characteristics of the desired ink (although all inks are printed, the characteristics of the ink used in the screen and pad printing are different. Screen printing uses a belt. There is a high-permeability UV ink with a quick-drying UV-light coating, while pad printing uses a special-printing ink with a hardener.