Green Printing: Perception vs. Reality and the UV Edge

Eco-friendly UV Supplies Advancements

A universal problem, which is experienced by all sheetfed and web UV printers, is the tendency of the printing blankets to fail prematurely. Blanket failure is typically caused by a latent image of the printing form adhering to the blanket after a few thousand impressions. This latent image cannot be removed with conventional blanket wash. UV printers often refer to this phenomenon as “ghosted image,” “latent image,” “burn-in” or “image memory.”