With our advanced UV and LED UV technologies, we are setting new standards in the digital printing industry. Whether on flexible or rigid materials, our UV and LED UV systems offer the highest precision, brilliant colour reproduction and enable seamless adaptation to your specific requirements. Discover how our innovative technologies can make your printing projects more efficient and sustainable.
UV curing technologies in industrial digital printing offer higher productivity, substrate versatility and low heat build-up on the substrate. They are ideal for coding and marking, such as printing best-before dates on packaging, as well as for applications with short runs and frequently changing content, for example in the areas of mailing, signage or short-run printing. Our UV systems make it possible to realise individual print jobs in high quality without long preparation times and expensive printing plates.
Our UV technology can print on almost all flexible and rigid substrates, as well as plastics, glass, wood and metal using the inkjet process, and 3D materials with corners or curves can also be printed directly, opening up new fields of application in the area of industrial printing (direct printing on industrial products) in the future. By integrating the print heads into the production line, it is now possible to print the required content or graphics directly onto the end product inline. This saves time and resources.
However, industrial inkjet printing is not limited to the graphic design of a product. Thanks to ever-improving head technology and precision machines, it is now possible to print defined, extremely thin or delicate functional layers in the semiconductor industry. 3D printers, which can use inkjet technology to produce any 3D shape in individual runs at low cost, are also in vogue.
Inkjet systems are used on a wide range of materials and in different machine configurations. Applications range from large-format printing with moving UV systems and industrial printing on wood or PVC with large print widths to high-speed sheet-processing machines and label printing presses.
The curing systems required for these applications must meet different requirements, for example in terms of compact and lightweight design, service life and required UV output.
Our portfolio includes UV lamp and LED UV systems for a wide range of requirements in digital and inkjet printing. Thanks to the modular design of the systems, customized solutions for curing industrial products can also be implemented.
For example, LED UV pinning can be combined with UV lamp final curing, or several LED UV systems with different wavelengths can be used. Depending on the requirements, focused or non-focused LED UV systems can be selected, as well as different reflector geometries for UV lamp technology. IST METZ also offers suitable technologies for drying water-based inks, for example for direct printing on cardboard or corrugated board.
In UV finishing, hybrid solutions combining UV lamp and LED UV technology open up additional possibilities for creating special tactile effects on printed products. LED UV units can be used for so-called “pinning”, i.e. pre-curing the inks during the printing process, and combined with a UV system for final curing.
As the use of UV inks is not economically or technically suitable for every application, a combination of water-based inks and hot-air/infrared drying can be used, for example, for direct printing on corrugated board or cardboard.
The LED UV curing systems from our sister company IST INTECH are designed for a wide range of digital and inkjet printing applications. Manufactured in the UK, the systems are used for applications including digital label printing and large-format printing. They are available in various configurations and can be used individually or as part of a modular system.
The IST INTECH product range is specifically designed for digital printing applications and includes so-called pinning systems. These systems are used to pre-fix the applied ink droplets during the printing process before final curing takes place.
The portfolio includes a range of modular systems – from compact, air-cooled versions to LED systems with an IP54 rating for use in suitable production environments.
