Push Solutions Gains Competitive Edge with LED-UV

The LED lamphead is easily accessible, but is fully enclosed during operation.

Co-owner Nick Bova agrees. “Overall, LED, it was the right choice. We were nervous getting into it, but in hindsight it was a game-changer. It changed how we print, how we go to market, the substrates that we’re printing on. It just opened up not one door but 10 different doors, so now we’re a 100% UV shop — the workload has changed drastically. We have new products, we’re selling into new markets ... signage, plastics, all sorts of things we never would have even been able to touch, and now it’s commonplace for us.”

Bova also points to the speed at which they can now produce work, since the installation of LED-UV. “Jobs that used to bill for X amount of dollars printed traditional litho may have taken 20 hours. Now those jobs can be completed in four or five hours for the same amount of revenue and the same amount of cost to the client.”

It was imperative to Push that the retrofit installation was fast and trouble-free, to avoid any disruption to their 24-hour production schedule. “Their engineering and their attention to detail for us was absolutely amazing — the installation process went seamlessly, we were up in production within 48 hours. The fit and finish and their design made it flawless with the press — you wouldn’t even know that it didn’t come from the factory that way,” says Brad Flagge, co-owner.