Cures for Wider Webs?

Elinor Midlik, president of Prime UV Systems, emphasizes that UV inks and coatings add “cosmetic appeal … to wide-web applications such as preprinted linerboard, multi-wall bags, folding cartons, and point-of-purchase displays”—maximizing their ability to grab consumers’ attention on the shelf. She also says some wide-web converters have found UV flexo offers a less expensive alternative to heatset printing using water-based inks and coatings—in light of recent acceleration in the costs of natural gas for heatset ovens, and utilities for running afterburners or incinerators.