Inks and Chemicals — Environmental Challenges

He notes the GATF has received a grant from its home state of Pennsylvania to test the system on its new MAN Roland web press. "That would be huge if it was successful," he says. "A win-win all the way around."

Another alternative is Midwest Ink's Hydro H2O inks, which garnered a 2002 GATF InterTech Technology Award for the chemistry that features tap water as opposed to fountain solution acids and glycols. According to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) results from a March 2002 press run, "color density was achieved equal to, if not faster than, conventional inks. Excellent dot reproduction and trapping was observed."