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Article: Sloan Inducted into the Academy of Screen Printing.
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- Ink World
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Founder of Polymeric Imaging recognized for pioneering developments in UV screen ink technology
Ultraviolet technology might only have begun to make major inroads in the printing ink industry in recent years, but there are some pioneers who have been tinkering with UV inks for quite some time. One such individual is Don Sloan, founder and president of Polymeric Imaging, a North Kansas City, MO-based screen ink manufacturer.
Mr. Sloan first read about UV inks in a trade journal in the 1970s. "UV inks hadn't been used for screen printing at that point," he explained. "There weren't a lot of materials available, but we ordered samples and put them together. ...