Backed by almost 20 years of development, UV-LED inks and curing systems are no longer a ‘bleeding edge’ technology, instead, as Jay Tharp explains, they are now the new normal for digital, screen, narrow web and flexo printing.
Introduced in the early years of the 21st Century, UV-LED inks came to market with all kinds of promises to help make life easier for printers and allow them to achieve stunning output at lower costs than other more traditional inks. Fast forward 20 years to the current day and UV-LED inks are now being put to work on all sorts of print applications, delivering exactly what developers promised, with a few other benefits to boot.