The UV LED Droled L70 lamps revolutionise the silkscreen sector and packaging decoration
Published by Marketing Photo Electronics in Subjects of interest · 7 December 2016
In recent times, the printing and industrial decoration sector of cylindrical containers is been revolutionised thanks to the modern introduction of the UV LED technology.The interested companies are the ones which print and decorate through automatic silkscreen machines, which already use UV traditional driers with Mercury lamps.Numerous Italian and foreign companies, which print and decorate the cylindrical containers packaging, have already replaced the UV Mercury lamps on their printing machines with the new lamps with UV LED Droled technology.This replacement, called "retrofit", allows to technologically adjourn an existing silkscreen machine, gettiing all the benefits confered from the UV LED Droled lamps.Other companies are considering this change analyzing costs and benefits and attentively evaluating the return of the investment ROI, that must happen in brief times.Photo Electronics, through some partners, is able to free provide to printes the necessary information to enable them to evaluate this technological change.Thanks to these collaborations, the printer, supported in the technical/economic evaluation, receives the offer for a UV LED system completed with an integration and installation kit.The investment cost of the adjournment to the UV LED technology varies for each case, but the factors that influence it are:
- Maximum width of the printing to be dried;
- Number of silkscreen printing stations (to each one it must be combined a UV LED lamp);
- Productivity of the machine;
- Integration kit.
One of the fundamental aspects, that has allowed the UV LED technology to take off, is the compatibility with the inks.Through the lamps Droled L70 of Photo Electronics, the printer is not forced to change inks, crucial aspect for them having recipes of colour defined with their clients and archived in numerous years of activity.UV silkscreen inks, formulated for being dried with UV Mercury lamps, perfectly polymerize also with the UV LED lamps of the series Droled L70 of Photo Electronics.Some videos of these applications are available to the following link: https://www.youtube.com/user/PhotoElectronicsSRLShare it Now!
