Category: UV Printing

UV Printing

Advantage of UV printing comparing to Screen printing

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Here we can make a comparision from four points as below:

1.Cost

UV flatbed printers can print directly and at a lower cost,also no need film plate making.Its really convenient to customized gift. And screen printing uaually suitble for huge quantity printing.

2.Process

UV flatbed printer is more easier to operate than screen printing.Just put the image you want to print into software,and then can print directly.

3.Printing Effect

The pattern printed by the UV flatbed printer is more waterproof and scratch-resistant than screen printing.

4.Environmental Protection

UV flatbed printer adopts a new type of UV ink, which is more environment friendly and has minimal harm to the operator and the environment.

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Basic, UV Printing

What is UV printing?

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What is UV printing?

When we talk about direct printing on different materials such as aluminum, wood, cardboard, plastic, acrylic, etc. we do not think that this process as digital. This type of printing has always been done with screen printing, pad printing, etc. Today we have a digital printing solution with UV-curable ink, what we called UV printer,it with many advantages over other types of printing, since the demand for a fast, quality, efficient and economic system is the goal of many industrial markets.

UV is shorten of Ultra-violet, which use UV curing technology to dry the materials during printing, The curing principle is that the uv wave emitted by the led cold light source lamp reacts with the photosensitive curing agent in the uv ink, causing the pigment molecules in the uv ink to solidify on the surface of the material.

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