Alliance Press — Primed for Curing Success

"These people were interested and committed to installing this technology," Midlik explains. "They especially wanted to do their own cover on a better grade of stock or a coated stock and, without a heatset oven on their presses, they couldn't do that."

Adding a heatset dryer was one alternative for Alliance Press. But a new oven with auxiliary equipment can run in the $400,000 range and brings other factors into the equation: air permits (burning off VOCs), gas, utilities and extra space. Edwards ran a cost estimate and found that going with UV inks and a curing system would be competitive with heatset.