Merasia, the master distributor of Teknek’s
market-leading contact cleaning equipment in South East Asia, will be showing a
range of innovative solutions to clean
before digital printing at Labelexpo India.
There has been a huge increase in the use of
digital printing in recent years especially in Asia, as the technology has
evolved to offer high quality, low volume print on a variety of materials from
labels and film to packaging and wallpapers.
Digital printing equipment is particularly vulnerable to contamination
as Richard Meredith, director of Merasia explains: “The presence of dust or
other contaminants can potentially scratch, block or damage the print
head. When you consider that a new print
head can cost up to four figures it makes it easy to calculate the short return
on investment for a Teknek cleaner.”
He added: “The solution is to ensure the web
is 100% free of contamination. Teknek’s
high performance cleaning rollers make direct contact with the substrate gently
lifting particles down to one micron.
When the web is cleaned it eliminates the possibility of particles
damaging the print head. We currently
work with leading digital printer manufacturers who integrate a Teknek cleaner
into their press as a standard option.”
