American print service provider, Beau Label has installed a third Illumina LED Retrofit System at its site in New Jersey.
The Illumina UV-LED cure features an instant on/off process, lowering the energy usage and stress on lamp bulbs experienced in conventional ‘always-on’ UV mercury lamp curing.
The company, which will also be using Fujifilm’s 300 series UV-LED inks, claims that the LED technology delivers up to 44% more energy toward the substrate, and five times longer dwell time, resulting in faster curing.
‘The power savings are enormous,’ explained Vincent Melapioni, president of Beau Label. ‘It’s amazing. These units definitely use less power than our air dryers. We literally went from 120 amps to power the old lamps to 10 amps powering Illumina.
‘It feels good to use less power. We have a much lower electricity bill, which is always good, and you feel like you can leave a softer footprint on the world; we are a little bit greener.’
