Abhishek Paul, director at APL, said, we are inviting the printers to bring along any substrate that they would want to test. “Printers can see the different between a conventional printing and LED UV printing,” he said.

The AMS LED UV XP9 installed at the end of Dhote’s Ryobi four-colour press is a 30-inch single lamp system. Among the benefit of LED UV, which Paul mentioned are: the ability it gives the printers to print on any substrate, use high-density inks, eliminating the need for powder, thereby saving time on press clean-ups, plus savings on energy. “We will show how printers can earn more by just adding one LED UV,” said Paul.

Dhote’s Ryobi is a 19x25inch press, however, the 30inch AMS system will also the company to fit it on a bigger press, should it bring one, said Paul. The system, however, is still a demo installation.