In 1969, Sun Chemical patented the first UV inks. Building on that industry first, Sun Chemical continues to lead the charge of innovative solutions for energy curable printing, including inks and coatings for UV LED printing. No matter what print process you use, we have energy curable inks and coatings to meet your needs. From UV-curing solutions to electron-beam and UV-LED, explore the options we offer below and work with us to determine which option will work best for you.
Efficiently meet changing job requirements on a wide variety of paper and board substrates with the SunCure ink and coating series.
With excellent adhesion to a variety of substrates and a fast cure response, the SunCure ink and coating series provides a high-speed, ultra-violet light curing ink for paper and board applications.
Key Attributes:
SunWave is a family of UV LED products for lithographic offset printers designed for commercial as well as sensitive packaging, low odor, and migration compliance. These high-performance offset inks for commercial and packaging printing are suitable for use on all sheetfed press types and offer class-leading lithographic performance.
Delivering fast make-ready, highly stable printing with minimal wash-ups and excellent duct flow, SunWave results in increased uptime for presses and increased productivity for printers.
SunWave products for commercial printing are based on the laatest highly engineered UV resin system and provide exceptionally fast and hard curing under UV LED and low energy mercury lamps for both single- and double-sided printing, with or without a protective coating.
SunWave products for packaging printing are designed to achieve ocmpliant levels of migration when cured under UV LED, even at the highest press speeds, meeting the same productivity levels as normal UV inks for food packaging.
SunWave products are fully compliant with the latest EuPIA raw materials guidelines.
SunWave offset inks for UV LED printing bring considerable sustainability benefits ot printers and are an important product in our portfolio highlighted in our Guide to Sustainable Packaging.
To learn more about our SunWave product line, listen to Flexible Packaging Magazine’s interview with Sun Chemical’s Derrick Hemmings.
Sun Chemical has unmatched technical service to help you resolve any issues you may be facing on press.
In fact, if you are experiencing common sheetfed printing challenges, such as ghosting, dot gain, pH conductivity or misting, you can access our Energy Curable Ink Troubleshooting Guide–a series of troubleshooting problems and solutions that we’ve assembled to help you solve your specific issue online. If these solutions still don’t oslve the challenge, our technical service team is readily available to assist.