What Makes a Printer? : vimarsana.com

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Whether its printed textiles for the fashion industry, wide format printed billboards or highspeed printing for packaging, magazines or promotional materials - printers help bring ideas to life. With customers demanding greater image quality at ever increasing print speeds, printer technology advancement has been at the forefront of growth in the sector.
Whilst much of that development has focussed on areas including sensors, drive systems and rollers, one often overlooked, yet integral piece of kit has also been undergoing a quiet technological evolution – media transport belts. To understand the science behind these belts, we caught up with Mark Wilkinson, Technical Lead for Printers at Fenner Precision in the UK.