hubergroup inks for today's UV printing

Print Solutions

Prompted by its relocation of UV ink production from Lachen in Switzerland to its German mother plant at Kirchheim, the hubergroup has decided to update many of its products for the UV offset segment.

Following a comprehensive test phase, these upgrades have now reached full market readiness. While the brand names of the familiar NewV series have been retained, a new product line has been created for LED curing products.

The new technologies in particular, such as UV printing using LED lamps or iron doped lamps, demand inks and lacquers with trouble free characteristics – products that fulfil the specific requirements of these curing systems even better than their predecessors.

‘These new curing technologies make is possible to customise press technology more specifically to customers' requirements,’ Carsten Zölzer, product manager UV Inks at hubergroup, emphasises. His colleague Roland Schröder backs him up: ‘As a printing ink manufacturer, we can support printing houses by supplying them with inks and lacquers precisely formulated for these specialised applications.’

In addition, hubergroup has also revised its ink series for conventional UV printing using standard UV mercury lamps. Perfectly harmonised fount concentrates are also available for all of the UV ink series.

Carsten Zölzer (left) and Roland Schröder, both product managers UV at hubergroup, examining a UEFA Euro 2016 match planner printed with the new UV inks