Printing

Static electricity can cause print quality issues, as well as sheet feeding and delivery problems. It can also create a risk of fire in solvent processes.

Printing on paper or plastics in high-speed, sheet and web fed applications will create static control problems. These issues apply to offset, gravure, flexographic, screen, pad, inkjet, laser and digital printing processes.

Fraser Anti-Static can solve most of the static-related problems in the printing industry.

Industry Applications

Static Control for Synthetic Printing Substrates

Owing to the greater use of synthetic substrates, higher speeds and UV inks, label printing and converting is a growing market for static eliminators.

Digital Print Defects and Contamination Control

Digital printing is susceptible to static charge in many ways, both in graphic colour work and document printing. In graphical digital printing, the most common static problems are dust contamination and print quality.

Problematic Static Charges in Digital Document Printing

Digital document printing can dry the substrate, which makes it very static generative. This problem can be seen immediately at the exit of the printer or at subsequent operations, such as creasing and folding.

Static-Related Pad Printing Issues

There are three commonly encountered static-related problems in pad printing. These are dust on the product before printing, ink-fly/feathering or cobweb patterning on the product, and static build-up on the pad attracting contaminants.

Product Misbehaviour in Print Finishing

Static electricity causes problems throughout the print finishing industry, including sheet misfeeding, paper jams in machinery and untidy stacking or collation caused by sheets sticking to each other or the paper-feed path.

Static Regulation in Screenprinting

Screenprinting is still widely used and remains a major area for static problems - particularly in the sign-making industry where plastic substrates are widely employed.

Reduction of Charge Build-Up in Sheeters

In web offset printers and digital printing, sheet cutters transform the printed web into sheets. If plastic material is undergoing the sheeting process, the result is often extremely static generative, leading to material misbehaviour and a range of packaging issues, as well as presenting a real risk of shocks to operators.

Product Misbehaviour in Offset Printing

Static electricity causes problems such as poor sheet-feeding and delivery in offset printing.

Safe Static Elimination for Gravure Printing

In gravure printing or coating lines, where combustible inks or solvents are used, one spark from a static charge could result in fire or explosion and serious injury or death. Our ATEX-certified range of static control products is designed specifically for these hazardous EX applications.

How to Ensure Perfect Lamination

Numerous static issues are encountered when applying protective, optically clear, self-adhesive lamination film to the printed face of a graphic display board. Problems can range from the attraction of dust and contaminants to the repulsion of both surfaces.

Improving Efficiency of Sheet Separators

Static electricity in a stack of sheets can prevent correct sheet separation.

Using Electrostatics to Pin Multiple Sheets

Temporary bonding or 'pinning' of multiple sheets is very useful for handling, packing and sorting. Commonly used for inserts by mail houses, magazines, newspapers, publishing companies and more.

Charged Magazines that Automatically Open for Saddle Binding

The inside of a web printed product, such as a magazine, can be given a charge so that it opens out and drops onto a saddle binder.

Electrostatic Adhesion of Magazines for Ease of Transport

When a stack of paper, magazines or similar material is transported on a conveyor there is a high risk of the product slipping off the stack. Electrostatics provides a clean and convenient solution.

Static Control on Winders – Label Printing and Converting

Some processes within label printing and converting can generate large volumes of static, which can in turn result in operator shocks, product rejection and production delays.

Knowledge Centre

We understand the electrostatic challenges that new materials, faster speeds, complex machinery and advances in industrial processes can present. This resource provides easy access to product brochures, information on static electricity and how it can be measured, removed or generated in specific applications.