Tips & Tricks for Corrugated Plastic On UV-Cure Printers 1
Corrugated plastic or fluted polypropylene, known commonly by its brand-names Coroplast™, IntePro®, Plasticor®, Cor-X®, and others, is a popular media for UV-curable inkjet printing applications. This document describes a number of recommended techniques to get the most out of your UV printer and this media type. Media Selection There are many suppliers and many product variations of corrugated plastic. Not all products are identical in how well they work with UV-curable inkjet printing.
To determine what Onyx profiles use the least ink, you can check the inkload of profiles within the Onyx software by looking at the value within the “Ink limit table” found in Media Manager. A value of 4.0, for example, is equivalent to 400% ink (100% each of C, M,Y, and K), while a value of 2.5 equates to 250% ink.
Lamp Power When you select “Coroplast” from the Media Wizard, lamp power settings are automatically configured to low for Production mode and to medium for Billboard mode. If you have created a customized Media Wizard entry for your fluted polypropylene media, be sure that your lamps are configured for these same power settings.
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