UV LED Screen Printing Products

Sunlite’s UV LED Curing Products for Screen Printing

Screen printing (also called silk screening) involves a screen (the image carrier) and a porous mesh stretched tightly over a frame.  Proper tension of the mesh is essential to ensure good registration of the ink, which is transferred to the substrate using a squeegee.  The belt speed used for a screen printing press is significantly slower than that of a flexo printing press.  However, screen printing presses have the advantage that they can be used to create very wide prints (such as banners), while flexo printing presses can print only much narrower documents (up to ~17 inches wide at most).

Both water-cooled UV LED curing heads (UVST80) and the air-cooled UV LED curing heads (UVST85) are scalable and are therefore both recommended for screen printing to cure prints from 4 inches to over 100 inches.

Sunlite’s UVST80 Series

UVST80 LED Curing Unit Product Specs

Features of Sunlite’s UVST80 LED Curing Unit

• Water-cooled system
• Operating lifetime of 20,000+ hours
• Light output peak wavelength of 395 nm
• Fixture length is scalable from 4 to 102 inches (or more)
• Instantaneous on/off and dimming capabilities
• Equivalent power intensity as high as 26 Watts/cm²
• Automatic turn on/turn off feature to match printing process
• Environmentally friendly (no mercury contained in LED lights)
• Does not produce ozone (or require exhaust fans for ozone removal)
• Energy Efficient (80% less power consumption compared with traditional fixtures)
• LEDs can be placed very close to the substrate (0.25 inches is recommended for most applications)

Sunlite’s UVST85 Series

UVST85 LED Curing Unit Product Specs

Features of Sunlite’s UVST85 LED Curing Units

• Operating lifetime of 20,000+ hours
• Instantaneous on/off and dimming capabilities
• Standard light output peak wavelength of 395 nm
• Can be either an air-cooled or water-cooled system
• Environmentally friendly (does not contain mercury)
• Fixture length is scalable from 4 to 102 inches (or more)
• Does not produce ozone (or require an exhaust fan to remove ozone)
• Energy Efficient (80% less power consumption than other traditional fixtures)
• Can be automatically controlled to turn on only when the printing unit is in operation

Customized Designs!

Call us at (785) 856-0219 for more details and to custom design your UV LED curing unit.