UV Web Printing -- Rays of Opportunity

Midlik agrees. "UV is much more attractive in terms of capital costs," she says. "The capital cost of UV is one quarter the cost of heatset. And the utilities costs of UV are 50 percent of the costs of heatset. While the inks are more expensive, printers are now in a situation where the increased costs of just the utilities more than offsets the added cost of the inks."