Centre Equipment

The Centre is based in the College of Engineering at Swansea University . It has a dedicated air conditioned laboratory with the very latest technology for investigating all aspects of the printing and coating processes. All computer interfaced equipment is networked through a 100 Mbit network to a dedicated server.

Colour measurement

• Gretag 0 / 45 spectrophotometer
• 2 x Gretag Spectrolino transmission and reflective spectrophotometer
• XRite spherical spectrometer.
• 4 x Gretag densitometers 

• Minolta Multi-Gloss 268 gloss meter

• VeriVide CAC 150 colour assessment cabinet

Pre - Press equipment

• Linotype - Hell Topaz hi-res colour scanner

• 2 x Epson 10600 ink Jet printers

Printing  presses 

All printing presses are located in a clean tent area

• Teca Print TPX 300 Pad Printer

• DEK 248 screen printer

• Presstek 9982 Offset printing press

• Timsons T-Flex 4 unit UV flexographic press

• Svecia screen print press

• Presco Electronics screen print press

• Dimatrix X-Y electronic material ink jet 

Surface characterisation

• Veeco 9800 wide area white light interferometer.

• WYKO NT - 2000 white light interferometer

• WYKO roll scope

The centre also has access to :

• SIP Universal measurement machine.

• Rank Taylor Hobson Surtronic 4+ stylus surface measurement.

• Atomic force microscopy

Material, chemical and electrical testing and inspection

• Bohlin Gemini HR Nano rheometer

• Agilent force - measurement system with 4 point probe system for electronic characterisation.

• Variety of keithley electrical test equipment.

• IGT Tacktester 450 

• Leica-Mez image processing system with stabilised xenon light source

• Hounsfield tensile & compressive testing system fitted with controlled temperature cabinet

• Meiji High resolution microscope & image capture system

• Auto sampling gas Chromatograph and mass spectrometry unit fitted with a thermal desorber sampling unit (GCMS)

• Fibro DAT 1100 dynamic contact angle measurement system

• Thermal imaging camera

• Extensional Rheometer

• Orion 3 Star PH Meter

The centre also has access to :

• ARES controlled stress and oscillatory rheometer

• Scanning electron microscope

• QUV accelerated weathering equipment

• FT-IR spectroscope

• Reichert - Jung microscope

Simulation presses and sample preparation

• IGT High speed ink tester and Reprotest universal testing system AC12-5

• IGT F1

• IGT G1

• EXAKT 80 E Three Roll Mill

• Automatic draw down with Meyer bar and anilox ink transfer.

• Netzsch Labstar mixer and bead milling system for ink manufacture

• Netzsch Mastermix Shearmaster High Speed Disperser

• Heidolph RZR 2041 Overhead Stirrer

• Jenton Ultraviolet Curing Conveyor Unit

• Humidity Oven

• Tampoprint Hermetic 51 pad printing press

Data acquisition

• Schlumbager POD system

• Micro link high speed 16 multi channel data grabbing systems

• HP 40 MHz digital oscilloscopes

Computational resources

• SHOTS teaching simulator

• Flexsys teaching simulator

• Packsim teaching simulator

• Heatset teaching simulator

• High power workstations with ELFEN and Abacus structural FE software