Cover Story?UV Flexo Printing is Opening Doors to Success

UV printing capability is a major factor in QCP's ability to enter into these markets, according to Franze. "While inline flexo has given us the advantages of single-pass production, which offers lower costs and faster response to our customers, UV has offered us the opportunity go to the market and not worry about the graphics we will have to print," he states. "We can take the most challenging jobs, which we would never even consider if we had a water-based press, and print it with confidence … Our customers are able to have their jobs produced faster, with better color consistency, and a host of additional value-added features inline, such as foil laminations and specialty coatings, all of which require UV."