Trevor Elworthy, founder and chief innovation officer of LumeJet, will be giving the talk ‘Inkless Printing - New Applications for Photonic Imaging Technology’ at the next St Bride Print Networking Club meeting on Monday 30 June. The meeting will take place in the Bar at St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, with proceeds from the bar going to the foundation.
LumeJet, based in Coventry and established in 2010, develops and manufactures light-based (photonic) digital printheads spun out from research Elworthy initiated at Warwick University during the early 2000’s. The first machine using LumeJet printheads, the LJS200, was beta tested last year, with four machines now in commercial operation in the UK.
Similar in principle to an inkjet system, but ‘spraying’ light rather than inks, LumeJet print heads use finely focussed multiple parallel beams of LEDs (288 in each head) to print at ultra high quality on standard colour negative photo papers.
At the St Bride talk, Elworthy will outline the next development, LumeBar, part-funded by a UK TSB £250,000 grant, and comprising a page-wide printhead with over 14000 micro-LEDs.