Cover Story?UV Flexo Printing is Opening Doors to Success

The cost of UV printing is a topic that always comes up, acknowledges Cleveland, since UV inks can be three or more times more costly to acquire than water-based inks. But he says that a printer must consider the total applied cost, and he feels that this is where UV printing comes up a winner.

"UV inking systems obtain much higher densities with thinner ink films, and they sit on top of the substrate and don't dive into the substrate like water-based and solvent inks," says Cleveland. "Therefore we are able to achieve much better contrast, densities, and vividness of graphics with less ink."