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Maintenance skills of UV light source and accessories in UV printing of screen printing machine supporting equipment

The editor of thescreen printing machine manufacturer will explain to you the maintenance skills of the UV light source and accessories in the UV printing of the screen printing machine supporting equipment.

Screen printing machine printing equipment UV curing machine, the use of UV ink or UV varnish may cause the printing ink roller blanket or tree finger plate to swell. Severe swelling will cause peeling or surface chipping. It is very important to use designated rubber and tree finger plates.  

Many UV ink suppliers will recommend a range of use, such as blanket nitrification or nitrification treatment materials can be combined with oily UV ink and varnish; while natural rubber and polyethylene materials will swell, not suitable for UV ink And varnish; EPDM rubber material is especially suitable for UV ink and varnish, but not suitable for general ink. The ink roller of the screen printing machine is also based on this principle. It is not often possible to switch to UV ink and general oily ink. If it needs to be changed, it must be cleaned up to remove all residual chemicals.

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Generally, the type of printing press must be considered when installing UV lamps. BASF UV inks and varnishes use pressure mercury lamps or microwave H bulbs suitable for industrial use. If the first one is a single color, two 120w/cm medium pressure mercury bulbs should be used. Generally, the difficulty of drying four-color UV ink is magenta, yellow-cyan, and black in order. Therefore, the order of UV color printing should be black, cyan, yellow, and magenta.

 It is very difficult to mix some colors. For example, green is made up of yellow and cyan. In addition, it is difficult to mix opaque colors because it reflects all the UV light back. The same problem exists in the same metallic, golden, and silver colors.

UV mercury lamp has a certain lifespan, too old lamp tube can not dry UV ink or varnish. Most of the UV lamp instructions indicate that the UV lamp must be replaced after about 1,000 hours of use. In actual production, if you feel that the printed matter cannot be dried at the normal printing speed, you must consider replacing the UV lamp.

If the reflector is not installed, about 80% of the UV light will not be able to act on the printed matter due to diffusion, so the UV lamp must be installed with a lamp shade to reflect and focus on the direction of the printed matter. Colleagues, the reflector must be cleaned and maintained at any time. If some paper dust or dust from spraying powder adheres to the reflector, it will affect the reflection effect of the UV lamp; if the UV lamp is not used for a long time, the UV lamp cover should also be closed to prevent dust from entering.

The above is the maintenance skills of UV light source and accessories in the UV printing matched with the screen printing machine.


Post time: Oct-30-2021