Printing

Dry ice blasting is an ideal solution for cleaning all types of printing presses including flexography, offset and web-fed.

Cleaning with dry ice can remove ink, grease, paper lint, and other built-up coatings and can affect registration. Due to dry ice blasting’s non-abrasive nature, even extremely fine plates used in the gravure process can be cleaned.

Advantages of dry ice blasting include;

• Cleaning can be accomplished in place, eliminating the need to move or disassemble equipment. This minimizes downtime, increases production time, and saves money.
• No additional secondary waste is produced when using dry ice blasting. After dry ice blasting and a simple wipe down of non-painted parts, the presses are ready to run again.

Many types of printing press rollers are easier to clean in place with dry ice blasting. Dry ice blasting safely removes deposits and buildups that may cause registration problems and misalignment of rollers in printing processes.

There are no solvents used with dry ice cleaning so secondary disposal and waste management are minimized. Dry ice blasting can be performed with the rollers in place without disassembling equipment and with less chance of damage to the rollers.