UV Printing — Horse of a Different Color

Cedar Graphics uses hybrid ink for UV printing on regular paper and full UV for everything synthetic, and has run UV jobs on everything from paper to vinyl, polystyrene, foil and clear plastic, up to 24 pt. Changing from hybrid to UV is not a big deal, he affirms, but switching from conventional to hybrid or UV is more complicated. “You have to put in the lamps, switch blankets and condition the rollers for UV ink. We can get it done in an hour-and-a-half, tops.”