Modelling for optimising the properties of paper

Paper is an extremely versatile material and can be used for countless applications. To make the natural all-rounder suitable for its special tasks, it's necessary to know about its inner life. In the new "CD Laboratory for Fiber Swelling and Paper Performance", the individual fibres are measured and analysed in order to design the behaviour of the next generation of paper. Ever-increasing digitalisation is an enormous challenge for printing shops and printer manufacturers. But there is one print technology which is growing - in contrast to all the others: high-speed ink-jet printing. The great advantage of this technology is its amazing speed. It hardly takes half a second for a sheet to be printed and dried.