Cover Story?UV Flexo Printing is Opening Doors to Success

When you throw in all the issues involved with processing and maintaining water-based ink systems (pH and viscosity control, ink additives, clean up, wasted inks, work-off inks with unknown additives and ink strengths, etc.), Cleveland clearly feels the scales lean toward UV systems.

"Total applied costs for a UV inking system is less, and far superior to conventional inking systems," he states. "If a converter is serious about producing the highest quality product, and can see past a narrow-minded view of direct costs versus total applied costs of converting, then they have graduated to world-class printing with UV."