PRINT UV 2012 IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY...
Now in its fifth year running, Print UV is a one-of-its-kind conference for printers serious about differentiating themselves with UV printed media.
The Print UV event is brought to you by a select group of sponsors in the graphic arts industry, including the following organizations:
ACTEGA Kelstar
ACTEGA Kelstar is a leading manufacturer of specialty UV coatings, aqueous coatings and fountain solutions for the graphic arts industry and one of the largest suppliers of coatings in North America. Our Ultra Sheen UV coatings are designed with a variety of viscosities, cure packages and flexibilities to satisfy the everyday and specialized requirements of both printers and trade coaters. ACTEGA Kelstar's UV coating product lines include UV gloss, satin and matte coatings, roller and blanket coatings, web offset coatings, coatings for digital inks, in-line coatings for hybrid inks, cylinder screen coatings, flexo coatings, ink train coatings and special effect coatings and varnishes. Our UV coatings provide superior cure speed, exceptional adhesion and flexibility, and environmentally friendly zero VOC technology. The combination of our high quality products and superior technical support provides the best total cost solution for our customers. For additional information, please visit www.actega.com/kelstar.
Advanced Print Technologies, LLC.
Your source for Specialty Presses and Finishing equipment.
Headquartered in Providence, RI, with full coverage from Coast to Coast, APT was established in 2003 and has quickly grown into one of the recognized leaders in the re-sell of pre-owned printing machinery. Due to our long-term experience with the New Manufacturer Segment, we have extensive contacts throughout the world for the location of Specialty/Large Format presses up to 81" for UV packaging, plastics, flexo and custom applications. We remain totally committed to deliver the best options for the specific budgets that our customers might have. APT also specializes in asset recovery and liquidations, helping companies of all sizes to re-organize, merge or minimize their debt by turning under utilized machinery into working capital. This also gives us extensive sources for machines through the Bank/Finance companies, thanks to our ability to appraise and/or purchase entire facilities throughout the country. This creates new opportunities that give our customers a leading edge to acquire hard-to-find piece machinery before it hits the general marketplace.
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www.aptpressdirect.com
Air Motion Systems, Inc. | AMS UV
AMS designs and manufactures next-generation conventional UV and LED UV curing systems and related accessories that can be found integrated into the world's most advanced original equipment and in daily use at many of the world's leading printing and packaging companies. AMS currently leads the industry with its next generation, scalable, high-power PEAK LED-UV™ curing systems (UV LED Curing), which provide high-intensity, energy-efficient UV LED drying for a new era of printing and finishing ranging from digital to flexo to offset. The P3 UV™ system is AMS's award-winning sheetfed and web UV technology that features the most advanced, flexible, conventional UV and High Wavelength UV curing technology available today, making UV adoption by offset printers easier and more reliable than ever. Air Motion Systems is the producing sponsor of Print UV – the industry’s first conference dedicated to UV printing. For more information visit us at www.airmotionsystems.com.
Coatings and Adhesives Corporation
Coatings and Adhesives Corporation, based in Leland, NC is one of the largest firms of its type in North America. The C&A product line has a documented history of performance, consistency and economics. We offer a complete line of UV coatings for in-line and off line applications providing coatings to the commercial, packaging, multi wall bag, flexo, web offset, screen and digital markets. Product line offerings include gloss, ultra high gloss, satin and matte finishes, high adhesion, flexible and low odor coatings for printing on paper, board and synthetic substrates. Soy and vegetable oil based coatings that are Green products based on renewable materials that are environmentally friendly, zero VOC are also available in a wide range of viscosities for any application need or finish are available. We custom formulate special effect coatings for, raised image, texture, pearlescent, glitter, color shift, ink train coatings, strike thru contrast and reticulation texture effect conventional and UV cure varnishes used with spot coatings to create dramatic effects while minimizing the printing cycle and cost of production. To learn more visit us at www.cacoatings.com.
Conti-Tech
A division of Continental AG, ContiTech is one of the World's leading producers of compressible precision printing blankets. With its two brands, CONTI-AIR® and PHOENIX Xtra BLANKETS, ContiTech offers a complete line of high quality printing and coating blankets for sheetfed, web, and UV applications. For UV printers specifically we have: the CONTI-AIR UV BLACK-HC®, KRYPTON UV® the and EBONY-HC®. From PHOENIX Xtra BLANKETS we are featuring two FOGRA Certified blankets for UV Printing the RUBY CARAT® and TOPAZ CARAT®, along with the UVite Carat®. Conti-Air and Phoenix Xtra blankets offer superior performance and value for the UV printer. For more information visit: www.contitech.us/pages/produkte/drucktuecher/drucktuecher_en.html
FLEXcon
FLEXcon is a ISO 9001:2008 global manufacturer of self-adhesive film products for applications such as product identification, promotion and bonding solutions. For the UV printing market, FLEXcon offers a wide range of primed (topcoated) plastics including vinyls, styrenes, polyesters, polyethylenes, and polypropylenes. With operations throughout North America and Europe coupled with worldwide distribution, the company works closely with both major ink and press manufacturers to ensure not only superior ink adhesion to our films, but also to design products that run on press without issues from problems such as feeding, stretching, stacking, curling and registration. The combination of print-technology-specific product offerings — from in-store marketing campaigns to bus wraps to window graphics — to topnotch technical and customer service, and applications-know-how makes FLEXcon your “one-stop resource” for all of your application requirements and challenges. For more information visit www.FLEXcon.com.
Graphic Art Systems, Inc.
Graphic Arts System, known as “The Foil Experts,” has been the leader in the design and manufacturing of retrofit Hot Foil stamping equipment for over 20 years. It’s Eagle Systems® equipment has dominated the hot foil market with hundreds of installations worldwide. Recently Michael King, Owner of Graphic Art Systems, has applied his decades of specialization in foil enhancement equipment to the development of the Eco-Eagle Cold Foil System for sheet-fed offset presses. The Eco-Eagle is the most technologically advanced, versatile and cost efficient cold foil system in the world. The environmentally friendly Eco-Eagle uses less power than a hairdryer to operate and was designed to eliminate foil dust caused by machines using the old dancer roller system. It has the ability to run unlimited multiple narrow webs of the same size or different sizes, or one large web depending on the job. The Eco-Eagle is operator-friendly, requires no mechanical, electrical or computer adjustments and can be retrofit to new or existing 28-inch up to 80-inch sheet-fed offset presses from major press manufacturers. Installations typically are achieved between 3 – 5 days and production is running by the 6th day. Graphic Art Systems is headquartered in Ocean, NJ where all R&D, manufacturing and production of its Eagle systems is performed. Our dedicated team of design engineers use state-of-the-art A-Synchronous 3D design systems with electronic simulation to ensure Z-D (zero defects) at the design stage and have a fully functioning design even before any metal is cut. All machinery is produced in-house with the latest software and electronics. The fully equipped machine shop consists of all the machine tools needed for efficient, repeatable and high-speed Z-D production. Let us provide you with a demonstration. For additional information please visit us at www.thefoilexperts.com.
Graphic Printing Roller
Graphic Printing Roller is a leading manufacturer of roller coverings specifically for the graphic arts industry. Graphic has been selected to manufacture the most advanced and successful roller covering for the UV industry within Japan and South Asia, where UV print technology is more commonly used and preferred. This unique roller covering uses the latest resin technologies, whose stability characteristics far exceed those of traditional & widely used polymer technology (EPDM & NBR). Most importantly, this covering is compatible with even the harshest inks for plastics. The key factors are improved ink transfer, excellent stability, shorter wash-up times, less ink glazing, improved dot reproduction. As well, these rollers are useable with the latest LED UV curing systems. Lastly, Graphic offers a solution for the difficult waterless UV printing environments by combining the key factors listed above with better temperature and static control, two major problems associated with waterless UV. For more information visit www.graphicroller.com.
Harris & Bruno International
Harris & Bruno International has been providing printing and coating solutions to the printing community for more than 60 years. The Harris & Bruno LithoCoat™ system is the preferred chamber/anilox/circulation system for tower coaters throughout the world. Harris & Bruno leads the industry in quality, service, and value. Options such as heating, chilling, mixing, viscosity control, and anti-foam devices are available to suit any tower coater application. With offices in America, Europe and Asia, and with expert engineers on site with know-how in all your printing and anilox needs, we provide superior global sales, service and support. Not only do we supply hardware for tower coater applications, but we have the technical staff to help you achieve breakthrough results on any coating application. We can work with your staff and co-suppliers to define all process variables with specialty coating jobs. We also recently added the capability to manufacture anilox rolls in house. This includes base cores, plasma coating, and laser engraving. Our staff can evaluate your application and immediately produce a roll to your specific needs. We can also evaluate existing rolls with our ASAP diagnostic program. These areas of expertise translate into value for our customers! For more information please visit us at www.harris-bruno.com.
Henkel
Henkel Specialty Coatings...The Standard in sustainable coatings and finishing solutions for packaging and printing.
MiraFoil® coatings from Henkel provide brilliant metallized effects that you can feel good about. An environmentally responsible and sustainable alternative to foil board laminating and hot foil stamping, MiraFoil® coatings are equally brilliant to foil.
MiraCure™ UV-cured coatings create fantastic special effects and dynamic finishes on your packaging and printing. Henkel's comprehensive range of UV coatings and special finishes help enhance the appearance and protect the quality of printed substrates.
Learn more about how Henkel's sustainable Coating and finishing solutions can create advantage for your packaging and printing.
www.henkelna.com/specialtycoatings
Hostmann-Steinberg
The hubergroup is one of the world’s five largest manufacturers of printing ink and related products. A Combination of 36 companies worldwide, the hubergroup has more than 200 branch offices, sales offices, distributing warehouses and representatives worldwide.
The hubergroup employs more than 3,600 employees that directly contribute to a production capacity of over 340,000 tons of products per year.
A privately held company for over 240 years, with the founding family still in control, the hubergroup continues to be a market leader in offset and packaging inks.For more information, please visit: www.hostmann-steinberg.net
Innovative Blanket Solutions
Innovative Blanket Solutions is an established converter that specializes in UV Coating blankets and UV Coating Plates. We are the fastest growing blanket Converter in the United States and we offer a wide variety of innovative coating solutions. Our 23,000 square foot facility houses state of the art converting and CAD cutting equipment. Automated cutting and barring equipment provides the capability to produce quality blankets and plates from the smallest to the largest sizes. IBS has the most complete line of UV Coating blankets available in North America. We offer a wide variety of materials to meet the many diverse needs of the coating market. The unique and innovative construction of our products provide printers with the competitive edge needed in today’s marketplace. IBS products are a cost effective alternative to Cyrel plates and offer several significant competitive advantages over the competition. These include; deep clean relief, no solvent or coating penetration of windows, reusability, zero gauge loss, durability, and most notably higher UV gloss levels. Our UV customers, consistently reach gloss levels in the mid 90’s and regularly achieve 100,000 - 150,000 + impressions. At Innovative Blanket Solutions, we take pride in our ability to promptly respond to our customers orders and emergency situations. Contact IBS for Quality Products, Custom Converting, CAD Cutting, and Prompt Service. All complemented by Professional Sales and Technical Support. For more information please visit us at http://innovativeblanket.com.
INX International Ink Co.
Headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois INX is the third largest producer of ink in North America and a global supplier as part of Sakata INX worldwide operations. We are an industry leader offering a full line of ink & coating solutions technology for packaging, commercial, and digital print applications. Our product solutions focus on metal decorating, flexographic, gravure, web offset, lamination, corrugated, sheetfed, inkjet and UV/EB inks and coatings. We are dedicated to our customers, employees, the graphic arts industry and society. For more information please visit www.inxinternational.com.
Joules Angstrom U.V. Printing Inks
Joules Angstrom U.V. Printing Inks, a privately held, U.S. owned and operated company based in Pataskala (Columbus), Ohio with branch locations in Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles. Joules Angstrom opened for business in 1999, focused exclusively on the Energy Curing Marketplace, and continues with that focus today. Our passion is our customer’s success with top of the line U.V. ink quality, consistency and press technical service. Our concept is simple- eliminate all variables in our raw materials and manufacturing process yielding an ink of the highest quality and consistency. An ink our customers have come to expect and appreciate. For more information please visit www.joulesangstrom.com.
KBA North America
KBA North America, a subsidiary of Koenig & Bauer AG, is one of the foremost leaders in sheetfed and web offset printing technology. With award winning presses ranging from the 21-inch Genius 52 UV to the Rapida Large Format machines up to 81-inches, KBA covers the gamut. A pioneer in the UV process and in printing on multiple substrates, KBA has amassed a wealth of UV printing know-how that it shares regularly through seminars and workshops - and through its state-of-the-art showroom in Dallas. To see how KBA utilizes UV Printing on plastics, click here. For more information, visit www.kba.com.
Pamarco Global Graphics / Diamond
Pamarco Global Graphics / Diamond Roller, is a leading producers of rubber rollers for the sheetfed and web offset printing industry. The Diamond UV Blue compound is an ultra-versatile line of performance rollers specifically engineered to meet the demands of today's UV, EB, Hybrid and Conventional printers. In short, UV Blue combination rollers are designed for printers who want to change inks without changing rollers. For more information, visit www.pamarcoglobal.com/offset_rubber_diamond_uvblue.html.
Transilwrap Company Inc.
Transilwrap specializes in manufacturing, converting and distributing the industry’s broadest line of plastic films for the print, marketing, and promotions industries. Transilwrap’s 80 years of expertise and breadth of product solutions provides customers with the right film solution for their unique application. Transilwrap's printable plastics and laminating films are manufactured within the highest standards of today's printing industry. Our sales representatives and technical support team work with customers to provide the latest in plastics for offset, screen, flexography, narrow web, and digital printing. Transilwrap's award winning films are used in a wide variety of applications including packaging, thermoforming, in-mold label, point of purchase, digital media, printed electronics, and more. For more information please visit www.transilwrap.com.
Zeller+Gmelin Corporation
Zeller+Gmelin, a pioneer in UV Printing Inks since 1970, continues to be the benchmark for performance and consistency in all segments of the Graphic Arts Industry. Specializing exclusively in energy curing products, the Company is the largest solely UV Ink Manufacturer in the World, producing specialty inks and products for Sheetfed, Web, Flexo and Dry Offset applications. Zeller+Gmelin is particularly renowned for enhancing throughput, reducing waste and providing innovative solutions for the unique problems and creative concepts required for the energy curing market. Product lines include Uvalux® Web, Curemaster® Sheetfed, Nuvaflex® Flexo and Color Magic® Dry Offset inks. Zeller+Gmelin’s commitment to service includes operations in over twenty countries worldwide with ten branches in the USA and Canada, strategically situated to provide service and support to all UV printers - no matter what their particular energy curing needs may be. For more information visit, www.zeller-gmelin.com.
