UV Varnishing

Roller Coater Varnishing

•  We have 2 fully automatic Roller Coaters which have the capacity to varnish over 120,000 sheets per day.

•  Maximum Sheet size is 31” x 40” and the minimum is 12”x16”

•  We can do a full UV varnish or a partial (spot) varnish to leave pasting margins and price marking areas free of varnish

Screen Varnishing

•  For high quality and high gloss applications with small production runs

•  Ideal for Hangtags, Brochures, Book Covers and other creative graphic applications

Our Service

•  Collection and delivery can be arranged for large orders

•  Fast service , 24 – 48 our service

•  Only high quality varnish from reputed suppliers used

•  Dependability with 2 high speed varnishing lines

UV - Important Info

Ink

•  Inform the Ink supplier that you need the Ink formulated for subsequent UV varnishing

•  Metallic Colours – Silver & Gold must be tested for compatibility with UV varnish

•  Some colours made with Fanal & Rhodmine pigments, tend to change colour after a longer period of time -which means that the fading takes place after about 6 hours after varnishing.

•  This can be acute in the case of tints where the concentration of pigment is low. Colours to be carefully tested are Rhodamine, Purple, Reflex Blue, 072 Blue, Violet, and Warm Red.

•  Inks with high scuff resistance, printing additives, high wax / silicon content tend to create wetting problems due to surface tension going below 35mN/m

Substrate

•  Paper & Board with poor coating will create problems of cracking at creasing / folding

•  When the coated surface is not even and porous, the glossiness will be very much less due to penetration of varnish through the coating.

•  Poor quality coating and highly absorbent stock can get a slight yellow colour in the unprinted areas after varnishing