How Do You Print?
Saint Clair Systems technology controls temperature and viscosity in a way that reduces costs without sacrificing quality. Whether you’re in flexographic, gravure, or corrugated printing, our customized solutions can eliminate process fluid variables that cause waste, downtime, and ballooned costs.
The Benefits of Viscosity Control
With our tailored viscosity control solutions, you’ll be able to see an immediate improvement in your printing operations. You can expect:
More Consistent Product
Maintained Color
Increased Ink Mileage
Solvent Control
Decreased Environmental Impact
Decreased Waste
Flexographic Printing
As a flexographic printer, your print processes must be adaptable to a diverse range of substrates, including plastic, metallic films, paper, and cellophane. And you still have to worry about maintaining adequate ink viscosity, temperature control, and water/solvent levels.
Even the slightest variations in any of these areas can cause issues like bleeding and smearing, color variations, striations, and other print quality shortcomings. That means imperfect finished products, customer rejections, waste, downtime, and loss of revenue.
Saint Clair System’s solution: Precise temperature control at the point of application within +/- 1 degree °F.
What it means: You can maintain optimal consistency in viscosity even at the final stage of your ink dispense process, resulting in smooth, reliable flexographic printing and crisp images.
To see how this can work for you, utilize one of our FREE tools or call and speak to one of our temperature & viscosity control experts.
Gravure Printing
As a gravure printer, your customers expect you to deliver high-quality finished products with sharp, accurate images. If you aren’t able to maintain proper ink viscosity, your product may not fully dry before reaching the next station on your gravure printing press, leading to issues like smearing and smudging.
The temperature & viscosity experts of Saint Clair Systems provide a solution that will bring consistency of quality and reliability to your gravure printing process. We control temperature at the point of application. By controlling temperature with precise accuracy at the last point in the process, we can prevent viscosity from fluctuating. With constant, predictable viscosity, your gravure printing process is no longer subject to the pitfalls you face when you’re vulnerable to variations. It’s a simple, convenient, and game-changing solution that will save you time, money, and resources, all while improving your productivity and profitability.
With our extensive experience in developing customized solutions, we will keep your gravure printing processes running smoothly. Take advantage of our FREE tools or call and speak to one of our temperature & viscosity control experts.
Corrugated Printing
Corrugated printing isn’t what it used to be. Clients don’t want simple, low-resolution images on their finished products. When ordering point-of-purchase displays, signs, shipping boxes, and other items, your customers expect sharp, detailed imagery that aligns with their brand identity and message. The slightest variation in viscosity can lead to color variations and other imperfections like smearing or striping.
Many printing process operators understand that viscosity change creates ink-related issues. But what may not be clear is that the root of the issue is constantly changing temperature occurring in and around your process. Simply reacting to viscosity change by making adjustments, or attempting to control temperature before the material is then exposed again to ambient temperature changes, are not the most efficient approaches.
Saint Clair Systems’ approach: precisely control temperature at the point of application.
We control temperature at the point of application within +/- 1 degree °F. With precisely controlled temperature at the final point in the ink dispense process, we keep viscosity constant with unparalleled accuracy. With this simple, convenient and easy-to-adopt approach, we can save you money and improve the efficiency and profitability of your process.
We are experts with over 30 years of experience, which means we’ve seen a lot of different processes. We can review yours and tailor a solution that will meet its unique needs.
Take advantage of our FREE tools or call and speak to one of our temperature & viscosity control experts!
Case Study:
Process Temperature Control
A potential customer in the coil coating industry was satisfied with the processes they already had in place and didn’t think temperature control could benefit their operation. Like many, they didn’t understand the impacts of temperature change in their fluid dispense process and the effects it was having on viscosity and throughput.
(Plus, some of their key personnel had a lot invested in the way things were currently running.)
Using our proprietary software, we gave them a free analysis. Our technology quickly identified that differences in paint temperature were causing them to apply excess coating. Our proposed solution from that single analysis saved them over $500,000 in coating and solvent usage.
We’re experts with over 30 years of experience in controlling temperature in fluid dispense systems. We’ve made our systems convenient and easy to adopt – but you need to see results for yourself to appreciate them.