Chamber Doctor Blades: Precision Offset Coating
Chambered Doctor Blade Coaters are the Key to Precision Offset Coatings Flexo printing has long utilized doctor blade metering systems to precisely control the amount of ink delivered to an anilox roll. This results in the anilox roll delivering a predictable and repeatable quantity of ink to a plate and a substrate. Because of these […]
Test for Surface Energy before Printing on Films
When we step into a printing pressroom it’s common to observe a hum of productive activity. Presses are running, printing is taking place, substrate is moving, and pressmen are professionally doing their job. But problems can occasionally appear, seemingly out of nowhere, to surprise. One of these can involve surface energy. What is the most […]
Poly Replacements for Poly Coated Paperboards in Packaging Strategies
In an era where sustainability is a critical corporate imperative, businesses across industries are increasingly turning to poly replacements in their packaging strategies. This shift is driven by a confluence of factors including the urgent need to reduce plastic waste, stringent government regulations, evolving consumer preferences for eco-friendly products, and advances in alternative materials technology. […]
Metallic Cold Foil Graphics Persuades Shoppers
Rapid Productivity Fuels Growth Growth has come rapidly for productivity improving cold foiling. Foiling is known for its ability to add eye-catching visual effects to all aspects of printing creating brand differentiation. Foiling has proven to be effective in attracting and persuading shoppers to choose one product over another. Cold foiling, first developed in the […]
Notable differences between Aqueous Coatings and UV Coatings
Aqueous print coatings and UV (Ultraviolet) print coatings are types of coatings applied to printed materials to enhance their appearance, durability, and other functional properties. First and foremost both Aqueous (water-based) and UV coatings have achieved widespread use in the Graphic Arts Industry as competing top coats. Both offer aesthetic enhancement and protection, adding value […]
Improving Printing Quality with Clean Substrates
Achieving the best printing results? Start with clean substrates!
Aqueous and UV Coatings Tricks to Cleanup Process
Aqueous and UV / EB Coatings have distinct cleanup methods that can make the processes run better. This article will address specific tricks to cleanup before, during, and after press runs of aqueous, UV, and EB Coatings. Safety First and Second We will tackle the important steps in the cleanup of coatings for both Aqueous […]
Advantages of UV LED Curing in the Print Industry
The advantages of UV LED light curing over the traditional mercury lamp have been pushing its growth. Explosive Growth Recently LED lighting technology, because of its low energy consumption and long life, has been eating up the competition while being rolled out with an explosive future trend playing out. Research from Gartner, Inc. says that Smart LED […]
UV LED Light Curing is Booming
Once a lab curiosity, barely able to cure a UV ink, UV LEDs first appeared early in the 21st century as play things, and then later as commercially available curing devices. With very low power initially, power levels have increased to a point where curing applications emerged in the last few years. Progress to full […]
PFAS: Phasing Out Banned Chemical Compounds
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER WITH REG’S PHASING-OUT BANNED PFAS Momentum is seemingly building to speed the phase-out of PFAS. Some states have now taken action regarding its use in direct food contact packaging. Let’s review what we’re dealing with: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) made their appearance in the 1940s, due to the attractiveness of properties […]