UV Web Printing -- Rays of Opportunity

While UV does offer enormous benefits, the higher cost of UV inks is often cited as a major drawback to running UV. However, Koszuta points out that while ink prices are higher, the overall benefits of UV make up for the cost.

"You don't have the chemical, pollution or natural gas prices to contend with when you run UV," he says. "Currently, I don't think that heatset printers are passing that additional cost along to their customers. But as the costs associated with heatset continue to rise, they are going to have to start passing those costs along at some point."