Since its introduction dry ice blasting has been found to be useful in several industries and one of the industries which has benefited a lot from this process, is the printing industry. After every printing process, equipments get filthy due to the presence of dried ink, grease, oil, coatings etc. While traditional methods such as sandblasting or wire brushes etc. never guaranteed harmless cleaning of the surface. There were always chances of wear and tear of the surface equipment. That is where dry ice blasting solves the problem. Here are various reasons why dry ice blasting is preferred so much in the printing industry:
- Ink trays used in the printing industry get easily cleaned with the help of CO2 blasting. Whether it is hard ink, dry or wet; all types of residues are removed without altering or tampering with the original shape of the trays.
- Whether it is glue pot, ink trays, various web presses like Flexography or web-fed; all the printing equipments are cleaned on the spot itself. That is one of the advantages of dry ice cleaning, that there is no need to transport the equipments to some specific site for cleaning.
- Whether it is caked inks or coating on printing press rollers; CO2 pellets used in dry ice cleaning reaches and cleans the toughest locations effortlessly.
- Cleaning by Dry ice blasting saves a great deal of time and money too. First of all, you don’t have to move the equipments to some other place for cleaning and secondly dry ice blasting process doesn’t produce any resultant waste while cleaning. The work which other methods complete in few days; dry ice blasting achieves that within in a matter of few hours.
With so many benefits, there is no doubt that dry ice blasting is the premium and the most sought after method of cleaning.
