Böttcher has great experience in developing dampening rollers. Based on this, a new generation of fountain so­lutions has been developed with a wide range of appli­cation for all lithographic offset presses. With Böttcher’s guiding principle of “PRINT + SYSTEM” these fountain solutions have been adapted to meet the requirements of the various materials in the press.

BöttcherFount fountain solutions
	for sheetfed offset
	for newspaper printing
	for heatset web offset printing
Böttcher Molex, reduction in bacterial growth in fount circulation systems
Web offset presses are particularly susceptible to bio­logical contamination of the dampening system. Böttcher Molex is an electro-chemical fount treatment equipment to effectively reduce the formation of bio films/ algae build-up in fount circulation systems. No additive of biocides or disinfectants is necessary. Re­duces turbidity in the fount solution.
	Böttcher Molex

IPA-reduced printing A 50% reduction of IPA concentration of 10 t0 15 % (vol.) in dampening water still in common use today to 6 to 8 % (vol.) makes an important contribution to the reduction of IPA emissions into the air. The impact on emissions achieved by further reduction of the alcohol concentration to < 5% is significantly lower.
Emulsifying graphs by Surland - unlimited water pick-up leads to increase of dot gain, toning and unequally printed areas - very fast ink-water balance, therefore sharp dot and fast start-up of plates - poor water pick-up leads to bad ink transfer, decrease of ink density, to sharp dot gain and partly blinding of the plate
Here you may download the full printing chemicals catalogue.
	Catalogue Printing Chemicals