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Ink and Makeup Ink Consumption
Hitachi IJ printers reduce the running cost for printing.
Ink and makeup ink consumption
Calculating examples (Rough indication)
Mean ink volume
Ink quantity used by printing
＝
1 ink drop
Mean vaporizing volume
of makeup ink
Makeup ink consumption
＝
by vaporization
1 hour
Ink quantity for periodic
Ink quantity per replacement
＝
replacement
3
(cm
/replacement)
[Note]
Above calculations are an estimate based on ambient temperature of 20 C
●
Ink quantity for periodic replacement is a case when the operating hours is more than 200 hours.
●
★In case the operating hour is less than 200 hours, please use following formula to calculate the ink quantity for periodic replacement.
＝
Ink quantity for periodic replacement
Ink quantity per replacement (cm
〈Example〉 65 m nozzle, JP-K67 ink, 8 characters/printing, 5 × 7 font, 6M pcs/month, 16 hours/day, 25 days/month operation
Ink quantity
＝ ＋ ＝ 〔8.3×10
−7
（cm
3
／dot） ×15 （dots／character） ×8 （characters／pcs） ×6×10
1
3
used by printing
16hours／day×25 （days／month）
3
＋ 400 （cm
） ×
1， 200hours
≒ 598 （cm
3
／month） ＋134 （cm
Makeup ink
consumption by
＝ ＋ （Ink quantity for printhead cleaning）
2
Evaporation
＝ 5 （cm
3
／hour） × 16 （hours／day） × 25 （days／month） ＋ （Ink quantity for printhead cleaning）
＝ 2,000 （cm
3
／month） ＋ （Ink quantity for printhead cleaning）
Mean ink drop volume of each nozzle diameter
Nozzle diameter ( m )
40
Mean ink volume (cm
3
/dot)
2.8×10
Mean dot number of each alpha numeric font
5×5
Font
Mean dot number/character
11
17
Mean dot number
Number of characters
Production number
×
×
×
1 character
1 print object
1 month
Operating hours
Operating days
×
×
.....................
1 day
1 month
Operation hours / day
×
Operating days / month
×
............
Ink life (hours)
200 (hour/month)
3
/replacement)
×
Ink life (hours)
（pcs／month） 〕
6
3
／month） ≒ 732 （cm
3
／month）
55
65
100
-
-
-
7
7
7
5.3×10
8.3×10
3.4×10
5×7,5×8
7×10
9×7
12×16
18×24
15
23
15
78
154
MEMO
...
1
2
3
-
6
24×32
288
P X R
S E R I E S
18
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