Pressroom Panacea?

Where things get complicated is, of course, in the wide-web arena. Reports on the quantity and quality of wide-web usage vary. Several years ago, Windmöeller & Hoelscher initiated an R&D program for wide-web UV flexo, inviting all major ink and lamp suppliers to test their products on a W&H CI press. Success was limited, and tests showed high costs and severe ink and lamp limitations. Senior VP Hans Deamer finds the problems faced then still exist today. He mentions "there are still problems with opacity, especially white—getting a good, dense white down is difficult."