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UV Printing
Ultra Violet (UV) inks have improved quality and reduced costs. At Dallas Offset, our pioneering development of the UV web printing process is providing better quality and a faster turnaround on a wider variety of paper stocks at a lower price. That’s value!
Printing and paper have always been sensitive to inflationary pressures. Today, we are seeing that more than ever. But Dallas Offset’s UV process can help. We produce brighter, more vivid colors on all our paper stocks, from newsprint to coated paper.
UV inks have special chemical photo initiators in them that, when exposed to UV light, form solid, dry continuous ink. This yields brighter bright colors (like yellows and reds), as well as maintains dark, rich blacks.
With today's challenging global economy, the need to improve print products overall while maintaining costs, service and turnaround times is more prevalent than ever. We hear from publishers every day that their advertising clients want brighter, more vivid colors on better paper. And they want it faster and at lesser cost. This growing market demand combined with an age-old commitment to meet print buyers' needs, fueled Dallas Offset’s innovation with UV.
UV is a smart alternative to printing on a heat set web press. Your printed piece can look nearly as if it was printed using a more expensive process!
Current paper stocks now available for this process at Dallas Offset range from directory to 100# coated paper and virtually everything in between.
We have achieved great results using the UV process on paper stocks traditionally reserved for cold web printing like the family of hi-brite stocks, uncoated book stocks, and opaque book stocks.
This process creates printed pieces where the colors literally jump off the page.
At the same time, using our UV printing process is friendlier to the environment. A traditional heat set press emits volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the air and uses high energy cost ovens and dryers to cure the inks. With UV printing, there are no (VOCs), resulting in a more ecologically friendly printing process.