Pressroom Panacea?

Despite the many benefits of UV flexo technology, industry insiders are hesitant to treat it as the package printing cure-all.

by Jessica Millward, Associate Editor

THE BIG BUZZ surrounding UV flexo printing has abated slightly over the last year or two. The process' benefits —improved print resolution, less makeready time and waste, better adhesion to film substrates—have been well publicized. But with developments in water-based flexo, suppliers and converters alike have begun to wonder exactly what share of the package print pie UV flexo merits.