Fact or Fiction: Green Printing According to Mercer Color

Once our ink problems were solved, our last hurdle was press wash. We tried too many to count. Each promising to offer a solution to our problem. Finally, in 2001 there was a breakthrough with a seed/bean-ester wash. It worked very well but still had over four pounds per U.S. gallon of VOC’s.

In January 2005, we were thrilled to learn about a new low VOC wash that could be used throughout the entire pressroom. It contains .29 lbs. per U.S. gallon and it’s the only wash Mercer Color has been using for the past 18 months. We use it on blankets, ink train rollers, impression cylinders, transfer cylinders, dampening system rollers and general ink knife-bench clean-ups.