Uv curing inks

Sun Chemical has expanded its portfolio with new UV-LED flexo inks and digital coatings, which were both debuted at LabelExpo Europe last week.

The increasing availability and affordability of UV curing in offset presses is seeing many printers adopting these versatile inks for the first time.

When it arrived on Valentine’s Day it could almost have been love at first sight. Like all love interests, however, Swallowmax’s new Komori Lithrone G29 H-UV came with expectations and pressures,...

The first of Canon Europe’s new range of wide-format printers to incorporate the new Canon UVgel technology will be unveiled at Fespa in May.

Updating your existing kit to UV curing could help you speed up turnarounds but the higher costs need to be weighed against the benefits

Precision Colour Printing is shelling out more than £2.7m for Europe’s first nine-colour RMGT 1050 Tandem Perfector sheetfed press, currently being bespoke-built for the company in Japan.

Precision is investing £3m in a plant overhaul, including a move up to SRA1, a switch from Heidelberg to Ryobi presses, new plate makers and cutting and stitching kit.

Blackmore has won around £250,000 of new work since February specifically related to its new four-colour KBA Rapida 105 press, the first in the UK fitted with Air Motion Systems' LED curing...

Sun Chemical is launching a new ink dispenser for the label market, which it says will be more efficient and drive down costs.

Hunts has hit the ground running with its new Komori H-UV press, notching up 100 jobs and 700,000 impressions in the first week of live production.

If you believe the hype then new UV curing technology is, after dominating first Japan and latterly mainland Europe, about to revolutionise the UK sheetfed litho market.

Benford UV will use its Ipex debut in March for the European launch of its EcoUV retrofittable low-energy, low-cost curing system, which it claimed opens up UV to commercial litho printers of all...