LED-UV: A Cool Idea for Digital Printing

Expanded Application Set

The advantages of LED curing are pretty clear from a purely energy savings and productivity perspective. But the advantages don’t end there. Because LED curing requires less heat, it opens the possibility to print on a broader range of substrates.

The ability to print on thinner, less expensive substrates opens up new markets, but it allows you to save money as well — for you and your customers — both in material and shipping costs. Styrene, for example, is purchased by weight. With LED curing, it’s possible to print on 0.010˝ styrene, saving you and your customers money.

Printing on delicate surfaces and specialty substrates can be difficult because high heat can be damaging. With LED technology, you can create truly unique and premium-margin applications on unusual surfaces, such as wood veneers, synthetic and specialty papers, rubber mats and plywood.

With LED technology, you also can print on laminated corrugated board, for example, with excellent results, and this opens up yet another door to the packaging industry.

There are many advantages of LED curing. While the technology has been available in the market for some time, it is still not as widely adopted as other grand-format printing technologies. That means there is a window of opportunity to gain a competitive advantage by investing in grand-format printers that use LED curing. You’ll enjoy a competitive market position, better margins and a wider array of innovative applications.