Cover Story?UV Flexo Printing is Opening Doors to Success

UV printing advantages

Franze is sold on the advantages that UV printing brings to the picture. "UV is 100 percent more reliable to run than other inking systems," he says. "It is no surprise to walk into a water-based flexo printing plant, smell the amines in the air, and watch the press operators add a continuous concoction of extenders, pH stabilizers, antifoam agents, etc. throughout a run. With UV, once we have standardized an ink formulation for a job, the ink remains the same from run to run, batch to batch, and no press-side agents are mixed."