Time To Shine...
UV inks and coatings offer durability and high-end graphics.
April 2009
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Company: Color Resolutions Int’l, www.colorresolutions.com
Product: PackCure Ink System
What is it?: UV-curable flexographic ink system for printing high-end graphics on both rigid and flexible polymeric substrates.
Features/Capabilities:
• Excellent adhesion on difficult substrates, such as specialized films and foils, vinyls, and PET and BOPP;
• Is shrinkable, scratch-resistent, and water-resistant; and
• Available in balanced systems.
Company: Uvitec Printing Ink, www.uvitec.com
Product: Water-resistant coating 22422-87
What is it?: A flexo coating that prints a clear high-gloss overprint, providing water resistance for hot and cold water.
Features/Capabilities:
• Designed for low line count anilox cylinders (less than 180 and more than 5 BCM);
• Can be used in high contact situations;
• Suited for high-end folding cartons and prime labels that will be exposed or immersed in water; and
• Designed to cure at high speeds and is resistant to scuff and rub.
Company: Environmental Inks and Coatings Corp., www.envinks.com
Product: Envirocure® UV III
What is it?: UV Screen Inks
Features/Capabilities:
• Designed for rotary screen applications;
• Can be applied to a variety of coated papers, coated paperboard, and many non-porous substrates; and
• Rapid cure rates, high gloss, good flexibility, and resistance to cracking, with chemical and abrasion resistance.
Company: INX International Ink Co., www.inxinternational.com
Product: Fusion™ UV Hybrid inks
What are they?: UV Hybrid process inks for energy-curable offset printing, designed for tag-and-label, pressure-sensitive, in-mold, and shrink-label applications.
Features/Capabilities:
• VOC-free and qualify for the Soy Seal;
• Adhere to multiple substrates, with or without coating, and are compatible with conventional press materials; and
• Provide minimal plate swell, clean color, and high strength with fine anilox (up to 1800 line screen).
Company: Water Ink Technologies, Inc., www.waterinktech.com
Product: Pharmaflex UV Inks
What are they?: BP-free, low odor, safety driven UV inks
Features/Capabilities:
• Free of skin irritants and other hazardous and chemically suspect agents;
• Consistent color, low viscosity, and high strength;
• Offer outstanding mid-tone and shadow reproduction with excellent mileage and no plate softening; and
• Available in high gloss, matte, imprintable, and high-durability finishes.
Company: Sun Chemical, www.sunchemical.com
Product: SunCure Advantage™
What is it?: UV curing sheetfed offset ink
Features/Capabilities:
• Uses a formulation that contains about 30 percent of materials from sustainable sources;
• Suitable for sheetfed offset printing on a wide range of carton board and paper substrates;
• Available in a full range of process inks, blending colors, and Pantone GOE systems; and
• Can be used to produce Pantone PMS shades, 6-color process FM6, and metallic colors.
Company: Alden & Ott Printing Inks, www.aldenottink.com
Product: UV Flexo ink system
What are they?: UV flexo inks
Features/Capabilities:
• Standardized on a 550 line/3.3 BCM anilox roll;
• Easy handling and increased color strength levels for better print quality;
• Formulated to print on coated and uncoated substrates; and
• Available in the complete line of Pantone® Formula Color Guide, Pastel Color Guide, 4/C Process Inks, and Metallic Color Guide.
Company: Nazdar, www.nazdar.com
Product: Nazdar® 1600 PowerPrint®
What is it?: UV Screen Ink
Features/Capabilities:
• Cures at lower levels of UV energy, thereby reducing energy costs and substrate heat exposure;
• Cures with low odor;
• Tough finish that is block resistant; and
• Includes both gloss and matte colors.
Company: Toyo Ink America LLC, www.toyoink.com
Product: UV ECO SOY Process Series
What is it?: A series of soy protein-based UV inks for paper substrates
Features/Capabilities:
• Excellent cure speed suitable for high-speed printing;
• Improved scumming resistance;
• Can print with every kind of dampening system; and
• Stable press performance.
Company: Siegwerk, siegwerk.com
Product: Sicura Litho 7900
What are they?: UV inks designed for use with papers of all kinds.
Features/Capabilities:
• Controlled dot gain for sharp print definition;
• Flexibility for folding and creasing finishing operations;
• Overprintable with UV varnishes; and
• For cold UV applications where ink thickness layer must be at a minimum, and ink reactivity at a maximum.
Company: ACTEGA Radcure, www.actega.com/radcure
Product: RAD-KROME PEFI25P11
What is it?: UV Flexo Imprintable Pearlescent Ink
Features/Capabilities:
• Designed for paper and plastic application on paper and many plastics;
• Cures to a smooth, high-gloss coating that is hot stampable and overprintable;
• Provides a high-gloss, pearlescent white luster, primer coat; and
• Cure Speed of 130 fpm with 1 x 300 W/in. lamp.
Product: PackCure Ink System
What is it?: UV-curable flexographic ink system for printing high-end graphics on both rigid and flexible polymeric substrates.
Features/Capabilities:
• Excellent adhesion on difficult substrates, such as specialized films and foils, vinyls, and PET and BOPP;
• Is shrinkable, scratch-resistent, and water-resistant; and
• Available in balanced systems.
Company: Uvitec Printing Ink, www.uvitec.com
Product: Water-resistant coating 22422-87
What is it?: A flexo coating that prints a clear high-gloss overprint, providing water resistance for hot and cold water.
Features/Capabilities:
• Designed for low line count anilox cylinders (less than 180 and more than 5 BCM);
• Can be used in high contact situations;
• Suited for high-end folding cartons and prime labels that will be exposed or immersed in water; and
• Designed to cure at high speeds and is resistant to scuff and rub.
Company: Environmental Inks and Coatings Corp., www.envinks.com
Product: Envirocure® UV III
What is it?: UV Screen Inks
Features/Capabilities:
• Designed for rotary screen applications;
• Can be applied to a variety of coated papers, coated paperboard, and many non-porous substrates; and
• Rapid cure rates, high gloss, good flexibility, and resistance to cracking, with chemical and abrasion resistance.
Company: INX International Ink Co., www.inxinternational.com
Product: Fusion™ UV Hybrid inks
What are they?: UV Hybrid process inks for energy-curable offset printing, designed for tag-and-label, pressure-sensitive, in-mold, and shrink-label applications.
Features/Capabilities:
• VOC-free and qualify for the Soy Seal;
• Adhere to multiple substrates, with or without coating, and are compatible with conventional press materials; and
• Provide minimal plate swell, clean color, and high strength with fine anilox (up to 1800 line screen).
Company: Water Ink Technologies, Inc., www.waterinktech.com
Product: Pharmaflex UV Inks
What are they?: BP-free, low odor, safety driven UV inks
Features/Capabilities:
• Free of skin irritants and other hazardous and chemically suspect agents;
• Consistent color, low viscosity, and high strength;
• Offer outstanding mid-tone and shadow reproduction with excellent mileage and no plate softening; and
• Available in high gloss, matte, imprintable, and high-durability finishes.
Company: Sun Chemical, www.sunchemical.com
Product: SunCure Advantage™
What is it?: UV curing sheetfed offset ink
Features/Capabilities:
• Uses a formulation that contains about 30 percent of materials from sustainable sources;
• Suitable for sheetfed offset printing on a wide range of carton board and paper substrates;
• Available in a full range of process inks, blending colors, and Pantone GOE systems; and
• Can be used to produce Pantone PMS shades, 6-color process FM6, and metallic colors.
Company: Alden & Ott Printing Inks, www.aldenottink.com
Product: UV Flexo ink system
What are they?: UV flexo inks
Features/Capabilities:
• Standardized on a 550 line/3.3 BCM anilox roll;
• Easy handling and increased color strength levels for better print quality;
• Formulated to print on coated and uncoated substrates; and
• Available in the complete line of Pantone® Formula Color Guide, Pastel Color Guide, 4/C Process Inks, and Metallic Color Guide.
Company: Nazdar, www.nazdar.com
Product: Nazdar® 1600 PowerPrint®
What is it?: UV Screen Ink
Features/Capabilities:
• Cures at lower levels of UV energy, thereby reducing energy costs and substrate heat exposure;
• Cures with low odor;
• Tough finish that is block resistant; and
• Includes both gloss and matte colors.
Company: Toyo Ink America LLC, www.toyoink.com
Product: UV ECO SOY Process Series
What is it?: A series of soy protein-based UV inks for paper substrates
Features/Capabilities:
• Excellent cure speed suitable for high-speed printing;
• Improved scumming resistance;
• Can print with every kind of dampening system; and
• Stable press performance.
Company: Siegwerk, siegwerk.com
Product: Sicura Litho 7900
What are they?: UV inks designed for use with papers of all kinds.
Features/Capabilities:
• Controlled dot gain for sharp print definition;
• Flexibility for folding and creasing finishing operations;
• Overprintable with UV varnishes; and
• For cold UV applications where ink thickness layer must be at a minimum, and ink reactivity at a maximum.
Company: ACTEGA Radcure, www.actega.com/radcure
Product: RAD-KROME PEFI25P11
What is it?: UV Flexo Imprintable Pearlescent Ink
Features/Capabilities:
• Designed for paper and plastic application on paper and many plastics;
• Cures to a smooth, high-gloss coating that is hot stampable and overprintable;
• Provides a high-gloss, pearlescent white luster, primer coat; and
• Cure Speed of 130 fpm with 1 x 300 W/in. lamp.
Company: Flint Group Narrow Web, www.narrowweb.flintgrp.com
Product: COMBISCREEN
What is it?: UV ink for combination printing on nonabsorbent materials, as well as absorbent substrates.
Features/Capabilities:
• VOC-free raw materials;
• Strong printability, flow, and leveling;
• High color strength, opacity, and hiding power; and
• Can be overprinted with just about any printing ink, hot/cold foil, transfer printing, or variable printing technique. pP
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