This study is intended to analyze the effect of thin ink-film thickness around rotating printing roll on the printing quality
in the gravure printing process which is used for making electronics circuit like a RFID tag with a conductive ink. The present
work numerically estimates the film thickness around rotating roller partially immersed in ink, in which the volume of fluid
(VOF) method was adopted to figure out the film formation process around rotating roller. Parameter studies were performed
to compare the effect of ink viscosity, surface tension, roller rotating speed and immersed angle on the film thickness. The
result indicates that the film thickness has a strong dependency on the fluid viscosity, while the surface tension effect
becomes negligible.
Keywords Film thickness around rotating roller - Free surface - Volume of fluid