LED curing is one of the most attractive technologies in the field of energy curing. In 2008, LED curing technology appeared at the de Lu Ba Exhibition for the first time, and caused extensive attention in the industry. Many printing machines and ink makers showed the technology. At the same time, it has made some progress in the field of inkjet. Sun Chemical and INX Digital are the best in this field.

2008 is the first time that UVLED technology has attracted people's attention. At the same time, inkjet technology has received unprecedented attention and great success.

At present, the market demand for UVLED technology is very strong, digital printing has become the largest market of this technology, which is the most innovative in the field of inkjet, and the advantage of UVLED just meets the demand in this field. Of course, LED technology still needs a certain amount of time to become the mainstream technology of inkjet market.

Although LED technology has been around for some time, the development of LED ink by ink manufacturers is the main driving force behind the development of this technology.

The main contribution of ink enterprises to this technology lies in the formulation of ink. The early LED ink needs to be adjusted or reproduced to meet the requirements of LED curing, and now customers can get the ink designed for UVLED curing equipment.

UVLED? Technology has many unknown advantages. First of all, its service life is very long, generally it can reach 20 thousand to 30 thousand hours. At the same time, its power consumption is very low, especially in the case of flexo printing and single paper printing, the printing plant can save almost 50% of the electricity cost; secondly, the UVLED curing unit does not produce ozone, the area is small, the integration and control are easy and easy to maintain.

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In addition, the LED lamp is also a very important technology, which can not only reduce the complexity of the installation of the UV curing lamp, but also reduce the impact of the curing process on the environment, human health and safety.

According to the Sun Chemical Company, they can provide different UV inks for LED curing units in various industries, but most of the current LED lamps are used in the field of inkjet.

Sun Jet, the inkjet ink Department of Sun Chemical, is a leader in the development of UV curable inks, and has made great contributions to the development of LED UV lamps. With the development of curing lamp technology and the emergence of high-power spotlight, SunJet pioneered the development of printing ink that can be completely exposed and dried by LED UV.

At the Print09 exhibition, INX Digital unveiled a short, narrow-format UV LED printer that cures at speeds up to 80 feet per minute. Recently, the company has introduced a UV curing pigment ink LED-INX to meet the market demand.

In the traditional printing ink, some ink manufacturers have seen the growth potential of UVLED, and made full preparations for it.

UVLED technology can be used in almost all printing processes at present. Flexo is a good example. The market prospect of single paper offset is also good, but it is difficult to use this technology for high speed and large scale paper printing machines, and the economic factors also have some influence on the promotion of UVLED technology.

Anyway, LED is the hottest technology in the last two years, and everyone wants to know how it works and what benefits it can bring to customers. But there are few enterprises that really choose this kind of equipment, which is closely related to the economic depression and insufficient liquidity.

In addition to the field of inkjet, which is highly respected for LED curing technology, this technology has also begun to penetrate into the field of UV flexography and UV lithography. At present, the price of LED is still very expensive, the raw materials for making special ink are also rare, so this technology still has a lot of room for development in the next few years, and the price is expected to be further reduced.