Drying, Curing & UV
case we decided to deliver the first set of plates to the press without any advance warning. That way, we believed we’d get an objective and unprejudiced reaction from the press crew. Its response was overwhelmingly positive – they saw the efficiency and consistency benefits at once. It was the same with customers, that complimented us on the clear improvement in quality.” “UV Choice Printing is delivering on-press benefits that make a really big difference for us in terms of efficiency, ink and substrate savings, and print quality,” continues José.
“In particular, ink laydown is much improved. We achieve 100% uniform coverage in both solids and shadows without impacting midtones and highlights, which we no longer have to sacrifice to achieve both solid colors and a wide tonal range. “As a rule, UV printed jobs are of higher quality and mostly on coated substrates. Because UV Choice Printing eliminates many of the difficult-to-control variables, press set-up is much simpler and more streamlined, and we get to color much faster than before. Without UV Choice Printing, for example, anilox selection could be complicated on certain jobs and changes more frequent as operators searched for the ideal anilox/ink combination. That no longer happens, as we now utilise UV Choice Printing for 100% of UV printed jobs.”
UP TO 50% SAVING IN PRESS SET-UP TIMES As part of its investment in Print Suite for Narrow Web to utilise UV Choice Printing, Adhesivos
Orcajada gained access to PureFlexo Printing for water-based ink applications, which “is especially beneficial when we’re producing a lot of solids.” José says that working in tandem, the two solutions have yielded further significant savings when UV jobs have to be rerouted to water-based production, and vice versa.
“This happens occasionally for scheduling reasons, and it used to be a headache because of the prepress adjustments involved – modifying the TIFF and re-RIPing, for example. “Now, despite working with different patterns, in most cases modifications are unnecessary, and we can consistently set up the new job being confident the results will be predictable. As a result, we’re saving around 50% in job set-up time — a huge difference.”
José adds that even when they don’t need to switch between presses for a specific job, the
production team has reported a 15-20% reduction in press set-up times.
CONTINUED BENEFITS
UV Choice Printing is also enabling Adhesivos Orcajada to grow the business and take on additional work.
Pedro says: “The addition of UV Choice Printing further allows us to shift certain jobs from digital printing to flexo as it enables us to produce stable, high-quality prints at profitable speeds while enjoying measurable ink and substrate savings. Being able to utilise flexo for a wider range of jobs is especially beneficial when we’re dealing with highly porous, textured substrates. “UV Choice Printing with its widely versatile advanced plate surface patterning, together with the Miraclon team behind it, has completely changed my perception.”
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