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Environmentally Aware Printing – Ultraviolet (UV) inks – 29th January 2010
Our reason why interest is growing in the use of UV inks as alternative technologies to evaporation drying for flexo and gravure printing is that UV curing eliminates the problem of VOCs. Radiation curing is at least as energy efficient as those processes requiring evaporation of large volumes of solvent.

Early difficulties arose when de-inking UV printed material by traditional techniques. As a result of continuing research into new de-inking methods, print is now routinely recycled.

A very small amount of ozone is generated in UV printing, but it can be filtered out and therefore has no environmental impact.

Peter Harrison is Joint Managing Director of The Printing House Ltd,
and Print Buying Direct of Crewe, Cheshire, UK.

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For more information on printing and graphic design please see some of our recent blog articles;

• Environmentally Aware Printing – Re-use and recycling of printing inks
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• Environmentally Aware Printing – Solvents
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• Environmentally Aware Printing – Recycled Paper – Reproduction

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