09.09.05
The Graphic Arts Technical Foundation’s (GATF) InterTech Technology Awards alert printers to significant trends and technologies predicted to have a major impact on production and profitability.
Among this year’s 11 honorees is Midwest Ink Company, Broadview, IL, which was recognized for its Hydro H2O Inks. According to the GATF, Hydro H2O Inks enable printing using just water and no fountain solution. The absence of chemicals eliminates negative reactions/impacts on the printing hardware, the ink itself and the environment.
According to the GATF, this process greatly reduces calcium extraction from all paper substrates and therefore reduces calcium buildup on plates, blankets and ink trains that lead to press downtime. Additionally, there will be better trap. Midwest’s heatset version of Hydro H2O Inks has given the above results while allowing the oven temperatures to be lowered by 30 to 40 degrees.
“Printers who use Hydro H2O Inks will see countless advantages such as fewer blanket wash-ups and replacement, reduced downtime and paper waste and increased ink stability and setting,” an InterTech Technology Award judge said.
The judging committee is made up of an anonymous group of industry experts and users who are independent of GATF, and recognizes manufacturers who bring the technology first to the market or enable smaller printers to afford a technology by reconfiguring it and significantly reducing cost.
Among this year’s 11 honorees is Midwest Ink Company, Broadview, IL, which was recognized for its Hydro H2O Inks. According to the GATF, Hydro H2O Inks enable printing using just water and no fountain solution. The absence of chemicals eliminates negative reactions/impacts on the printing hardware, the ink itself and the environment.
According to the GATF, this process greatly reduces calcium extraction from all paper substrates and therefore reduces calcium buildup on plates, blankets and ink trains that lead to press downtime. Additionally, there will be better trap. Midwest’s heatset version of Hydro H2O Inks has given the above results while allowing the oven temperatures to be lowered by 30 to 40 degrees.
“Printers who use Hydro H2O Inks will see countless advantages such as fewer blanket wash-ups and replacement, reduced downtime and paper waste and increased ink stability and setting,” an InterTech Technology Award judge said.
The judging committee is made up of an anonymous group of industry experts and users who are independent of GATF, and recognizes manufacturers who bring the technology first to the market or enable smaller printers to afford a technology by reconfiguring it and significantly reducing cost.