Drying/Curing Equipment — Avoid Half-baked Systems

"The old concept of putting lots and lots of IR emitters in the system and literally cooking the sheet with IR energy is simply not effective on state-of-the-art, high-speed printing presses," Bonallo says. "Achieving curing and/or drying at press rated speeds requires 'smart' system technology that will allow the infinite control of drying energy to the substrate. Although we configure our systems with power outputs that provide rated press running speeds on a wide variety of substrates and levels of ink coverage, nonetheless we like to dry/cure using only the amount of energy necessary to do the job.