Sheetfed UV Printing: UV Provides Cure for Many

Since Blanks began life as a prepress house, color management is near and dear to the company’s heart, and plastics call for an abundance of profiling and plate curves. It’s especially important, he notes, when a UV piece is married to a conventional piece.

“One advantage we had from the start was in having several people in our shop with UV experience,” Schrader says. “I’d hate to do it from scratch. Myself, the pressroom manager and vice president of sales all had worked previously at a UV shop. But, for all our pressmen, it was OJT (on-the-job training).