By: E&P Staff Prime UV in Carol Stream, Ill., announced that between June and September, it equipped 11 four-high semi-commercial newspaper presses in North and South America, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and India with ultraviolet ink-curing processors, which enable printers and publishers to run jobs previously printed on heatset presses and to print at speeds up to 3,000 fpm.
Prime UV retrofitted a Goss Community in Miami with UV processors, and, across the country, equipped an MDGM 440 with curing in Hayward, Calif.
At El Mercurio, Quenca Ecuador, another MDGM 440 was equipped with processors, while a new Goss Magnum at El Tiempo, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, was equipped for UV. In Brazil, the company installed curing units on a new Goss Community at Grupo Editorial, Novo Hamburgo, retrofitted a Goss four-high with UV processors at Grafinorte, Apucarana, in Parana, and installed a second UV system on Diarios do Para's new MDGM 430 in Belem. In 2006, Diarios do Para became the first Brazilian printer to utilize the UV process on a four-high offset web press.
In Russia, Prime UV put processors on a TPH Orient X-Cel web offset press in Nizni Novogorad, and on a Manugraph Cityline Express web press at another, unidentified printer.
Prime UV also installed curing systems on an MDGM 440 at Okaz Commercial Printing, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (the first on a four-high press in the Middle East, according to Prime UV), and on a TPH Orient X-Cel offset web press in New Delhi, India.
Ultraviolet-curable inks allow newspapers to print vibrant four-color inserts, catalogs, tabloids and covers on coated papers, supercalendered stocks and newsprint.
Prime UV says its curing systems install on all new and existing coldset web/newspaper presses. The company has sales and service offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, and has installed more than 3,500 UV and IR systems on web and sheetfed presses.
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