Water-based, UV/EB, and solvent-based coatings are workhorses in the package-printing industry.

By Tom Polischuk

In the equation for productivity, press speed is one of those higher-order factors that gets a lot of attention. In some applications, the UV curing process—the curing equipment and the UV formulations—can slow down a press. “Converters sometimes are not able to run their press as fast as they would like, which can limit productivity,” says Signet.