non chemical fountain solution system (Ihara lb-801)

[GreenGarcia]

We’ve seen a test run done on a 2006 MAN Roland with UV coater unit and none of what is suggested happened. Actually their prints were quite clean and sharp, and there was no loss in the effectiveness of the UV process. And all on a 1 micron filter….

There’s a unit working on a Harris M1000 press at the largest commercial printer in Brazil. They’ve been using it for almost a year now and just recently purchased another unit for their KBA press. I’d rethink putting a fish tank on these presses, since the system does more than just sterilize water and “demagnetize” it. It actually makes the water’s surface tension properties change in such a way to act exactly like fountain solution.

We’ve also seen the unit in the US and they use a small, insignificant amount of a non-toxic additive because the system actually opens their eyes to the condition of their press and they use it to open the print window some while they wait on repairs of their machine. But I assure you that put on a well maintained press, this unit will go all out 100% water. It’s only a matter of time – Brazil already tried it and they saw it!

This unit cost about $50,000.00 If you use over $25,000.00 of fountain solution per year it might be worth checking. The UV is just for sterilization. You would have a cheese factory in you fountains without the UV sterilization. Now you can't us this for UV printing or you will have dried particles of ink circulating in you system. I think that would cause few starches.
After a short while the UV sterilization for convention ink will be ineffective when the tubes become contaminated and diminish the effectiveness of the sterilization process. Also you will be bleaching out pigments that will still be circulating and the will cause scratching and transfer problem. To effectively filter out the pimentos you will need 5 micron or smaller filters which will glog in a mater of a few weeks. f you go up to 10 micron filters they will take a very long time to glog but they will filter only a very small portion of the bleached pigment in the system. This also depends on grounding, water hardness, distance the unit is from the press, kind of piping pvc or copper or stainless steel.
You can by a fish tank UV water purification light and the magnetic water treaters from many companies.
Fora total investment of less that $4,000.00 you can assemble your own unit.