UV Cost Savings + Environmental Advantage
In the dubious 2009 economy printers are analyzing every aspect of their operations to uncover cost savings. Surprisingly enough several web and sheetfed printers may not be aware of a recently proven process whose ROI is infinite. Infinite because there is no investment – only cost savings. It pertains to the printing blankets and fortunately applies to every single brand of printing blanket.
All printers using energy curable inks and ultra violet drying techniques are aware of the fact that the printing image from the plate gets “burned into” the blanket appearing as a ghost or latent image of the previous job run. This occurs in a frustratingly short amount of time and often in far too few impressions on all UV blankets, whether utilizing hybrid inks or conventional UV inks.
This latent image results in the printing blankets failing prematurely relative to what all of these printers are accustomed to with conventional lithographic printing utilizing aqueous drying or spray powder drying only. UV printers at the higher end of the print quality spectrum very naturally change blankets ever more frequently to assure maximum print quality. This is truly one of the very few shortcomings of this increasingly popular lithographically drying technology. Until now!
