UV Printing — Horse of a Different Color

For the time being, Lake County flexes its UV muscle on high-end design pieces and packaging projects (cosmetics, liquor, POP, etc.) that combine vibrant color and superior ink holdout on substrates from uncoated paper to SPF board to plastics.

Lake County's original intention was to run UV and conventional interchangeably on the CD 102, but the company quickly found it was doing so much UV to meet growing demand that it wound up dedicating the CD 102 exclusively to UV projects. Douglas acknowledges that the learning process was a long one, "but once we got going, the experience was very positive. Our people really have the aptitude to print UV. We expect our UV work to triple in volume once the new XL 105 UV is installed next year."