After ChinaPrint2025, China’s inkjet web press ushered in another wave of sales boom, resulting in the equipment supply period being extended from 30 days to 45 days or even 60 days. Founder EagleJet leads the sales surge of inkjet web press.
2019 is widely recognized as the first year of inkjet printing in China, and there are two important reasons why inkjet web press can fully explode in the country. Although Inkjet Web Press originated from direct mail receipts and was planned for on-demand publishing of books, the explosion of Inkjet Web Press is due to business on-demand and education material printing.
Founder is one of China’s leading enterprises backed by 14 years of research and development and technological accumulation. The Founder EagleJet web press uses a new generation of Kyocera print heads and produces a printing quality comparable to the best global brands. What provides Founder the special edge is its significantly reducing the entry threshold and usage cost of inkjet web press, making it affordable, usable, and profitable for many private enterprise users.
The system advantages of Founder EageleJet: Analysis of Business Logic Advantages
China saw rapid growth in the Inkjet Web Press market and many brands sprung up to share the pie of this growing segment. Since Inkjet Web Press is widely a printing sub field mainly focused on paper printing, with its core products being book and commercial printing, many manufactures failed to realise the necessary conditions of prepress workflow and printing production systems in book printing solutions. Obviously, for this reason Founder remained a dominant force in prepress software in China. Founder put its efforts behind inputting Chinese characters into computers, and later broke through the international manufacturer’s blockade on prepress technology, developing RIP technology with Chinese parsing as its advantage. This established the identity and role of a Chinese prepress software system supplier. Consequently, for 4 decades Founder has led the inkjet technology with a natural advantage in prepress technology. Founder became the only inkjet web press manufacturer that mastered a complete set of core technologies including prepress software, inkjet control, and post press slitting. Meanwhile it made the monochrome press more mature and stable as well as quietly pushed the industry into a higher dimensional colour inkjet printing race.
Traditional printing factories, as experienced industry equipment users, naturally choose equipment with industry experience and brands. However, some blindly chose low-priced and non-branded inkjet printing equipment, only to find in due course the importance of stability and convenience for production equipment. Certainly, POD printing requires higher equipment stability than traditional printing; mainly because POD emphasizes a delivery time, and a fast delivery time can reflect the value and price of digital products. Therefore, equipment failure or insufficient stability can cause great suffering for producers, for example, delayed shipments and unstable quality can seriously affect the business and profits. Founder has a big clientele that prefers both its monochrome and colour printing machines whenever there is a need for the repurchase of POD equipment.
Advantages of Founder prepress workflow software ElecRoc7.0
Founder ElecRoc7.0 has the advantage of being automated workflow and simple software for imposing and printing drivers. Many prepress file processing can be automated and batch processed using specialized functional modules in the workflow. For an Inkjet Web Press, the captain can use the workflow to batch process the files for prepress preflight during printing, and call specialized imposing templates for automatic imposing of various binding methods. It can do automatic addition of white pages as well as one click selection of post press marks. Overall, the use of prepress workflow enables archiving, job management, and automated job processing, greatly improving the efficiency and security of prepress document processing.
Monochrome Inkjet Web Press handling colour original files: In Inkjet Web Press systems, it is common to encounter situations where colour files are directly converted to single black printing. This is a common setting in Founder ElecRoc, that reduces personnel costs, work time and also probability of file modification errors.
Colour Inkjet Web Press encountering four-colour text: In traditional printing factories, this is already a prepress production and inspection process. However, in the inkjet era, many fast printing shops lack industry experience and believe that printers can print 4-color characters. However, for small texts with high quality requirements, it is a disaster. Operators need to spend a certain amount of time debugging and registration, in order to reduce the printing problems that are prone to occur with small 4-colour characters. They may never know that this is not a production debugging issue at all, but a design problem of standardized processes for prepress processing. This will make it difficult for operators to debug and reduce printing quality and production efficiency.

Multi-bit FM screening and Intelligent Ink Droplets

Founder, Harlequin and Adobe are the three major RIP manufacturers in the global printing industry. In Inkjet, Founder is the only Inkjet Web Press supplier with independent RIP technology. The core factors that affect the final quality of Inkjet Web Press are the print head technology and prepress RIP technology and frequency modulation screening technology. Only with right RIP technology can water-based ink achieve both colour saturation and fast drying without wrinkling on ordinary paper. It is necessary to achieve comprehensive control and optimal effect of RIP+FM Screening+CMS+Total Ink. At the initial stage of 600dpi colour inkjet printing, a total ink of 180 for two colours can cause severe paper wrinkling, even more severe than a total ink 240 for three colours. Founder has optimized these to find colour management parameters that can achieve a total ink 240 and also achieve paper drying without wrinkles.
Therefore, in the era of inkjet printing, Founder is the only inkjet system supplier with complete software independent research and development capabilities and ink research and development capabilities. The optimal system parameters for comprehensive matching of ink and paper suitability under the conditions of domestic coated paper have been achieved through prepress RIP, inkjet multimap FM screen, as well as separation in CMS and total ink control.
Drying and flattening techniques for coated paper
The Chinese printing market has seen a boom in the coated paper printing segment, resulting in a shortage of machines after the exhibition. Founder launched P6600CHD-33 in June last year. This Inkjet Web Press can replace toner digital press in commercial printing. Since the first installation, Founder has received over 20 orders in six months for the P6600CHD-33. Even traditional businesses are replacing their offset printing with coated paper Inkjet Web Press. Beijing Capital Printing company never expected their new Inkjet Web Press would bring them a 30-40% increase in traditional business orders before they purchased it. At present, Founder EagleJet web press can meet over 90% of the commercial printing requirements for coated paper.
After installing the first P4400CHD 4.0 Pro, Beijing Capital Printing relocated all traditional printing equipment to its Tianjin factory. It transformed the Beijing factory into a pure digital inkjet printing plant which will henceforth specialize in ultra-urgent commercial orders with a turnaround of less than 24 hours.
The core requirements for meeting commercial printing needs are adhering to coated paper printing quality standards and ensuring stable production. Founder optimised FM screening to resolve typical light white lines. It has deployed specialized drying and paper wetting/flattening systems, and has ably addressed issues such as paper elongation, ink cracking and ink spots etc.
Founder independently developed devices for rewetting and flattening after drying – greatly improving the colour quality effect and paper flatness recovery after drying.
Founder has chosen casting structures on wide equipment such as P5600HD and P8800HD to ensure the stability of the entire mechanical platform operation from the design end and principle, as well as the four-colour registration accuracy of high-speed printing.
In addition, Founder has an independently developed unique circular ink supply technology that applies a circulating pressure to the ink in the nozzle to reduce bubbles in the ink and provide a constant temperature and cooling effect on the nozzle, thereby ensuring the stable operation of the nozzle.
Eagle Eye Online monitoring
In order to improve the stability and convenience of the equipment, Founder has always made online monitoring a standard configuration for colour printing. The online monitoring can use high-speed array cameras to scan and achieve automatic registration. It can also monitor the clogging status of the nozzle in real time, thereby achieving automatic white line filling of the nozzle. Taking P4400CHD as an example, it is necessary to debug the overprint data of 32print heads. With online monitoring, automatic registration usually takes 10-20 seconds. The software system scans and detects in real time to achieve automatic registration and deviation control during the printing process, ensuring accurate printing.
Entering the POD industry may be limited by the investment threshold of the equipment initially. However, in the long run, the overall performance and comprehensive usage cost of the equipment becomes the first consideration. After the ChinaPrint2025, the inkjet market for coated paper saw a sudden boom and brand equipment like Founder is increasingly being favoured and respected by the market. The POD market is gradually moving towards specialization and branding in equipment selection and procurement.