Our Team & Culture

At Conquest Graphics, we take innovation and adaptability very seriously, investing in our team members and sustainability practices. In addition to providing a safe and healthy working environment, our team is trained in and operates by applicable environmental laws and regulations, such as requirements regarding chemical waste management and disposal, recycling, and air emissions control. We also train in and make efforts to conserve all natural resources. Our nonproduction team members work remotely, minimizing our environmental impact from transportation. We offer our employees access to affordable healthcare programs and technical and vocational training, ensuring improved employee engagement and problem-solving and helping our company align with our sustainability goals.

In addition, we offer our nonprofit grant program, which supports several nonprofit organizations each year whose mission is to maintain and improve wildlife, habitats, plants, and human lives. From providing food for local communities to enhancing the lives of our wildlife and protecting our planet, we are proud to work with our nonprofit partners.

The LED-UV Press Advantage

Our LED-UV press offers a lower carbon footprint compared to a conventional UV press.

How? Well, for starters, it offers 91% less energy during curing and uses 10% of the power normally consumed during conventional UV curing. The LED-UV press instantly cures ink between printing units and overprint coatings while also generating lower heat and consuming less energy.

Lower heat enables high-quality printing on heat-sensitive plastics, synthetic substrates, and films without warping or distortions. In addition, the absence of infrared light means that the drying unit reduces heat generation on the printed material and the press.

Our press also has an instant ON/OFF of LED-UV lighting, eliminating the need for substantial standby power. This results in a smaller footprint and faster press startups since LED lamps don't require any warm-up time.

Also, LED-UV curing does not generate ozone, eliminating the need for exhaust ducting. Compared to conventional UV, LED-UV has a 15,000-hour life, and 70% less power is consumed. Our press has no heat or venting of excess heat and no volatile organic compounds (VOC), and LED-UV offers curing on resin film, synthetic paper, metalized paper, and even thicker stocks.

The UV Coating Advantage

While we can still produce jobs using water-based Aqueous coatings, they are not required, and our business partners find that UV coating offers a sharper, more vivid image compared to Aqueous. In addition, UV coating and inks offer better consistency in finishes and color, better paper versatility, reduced quality control issues, and better durability because the ultraviolet light source results in more durable, longer-lasting, fade-resistant products.

UV-cured inks and coatings are exposed to ultra-violet lights and dry immediately versus having to dry through evaporation, releasing fewer chemicals into the air. In comparison, Aqueous coatings and conventional press inks release a large amount of chemicals (VOCs) into the atmosphere as they dry. UV coatings are also less flammable than solvent-based.

The higher throughput of a perfecting UV press means faster production times, allowing for shorter turnaround times.

The Digital Advantage

As a sustainable printing company, we are firm believers in the environmental advantages of digital printing. In addition to our sustainable LED-UV and advanced multi-color offset presses, we also employ state-of-the-art digital printing presses that utilize completely non-toxic, dry inks. We also recycle 100% of our waste colorants and developers and continue to invest in new technology and substrates that reduce waste.

Our digital presses run 80% quieter and use less electricity than an equivalent-sized, conventional press with an IR dryer. We also re-purpose nearly 30,000 BTU’s per hour of digital press exhaust heat back into our building during the winter months.

One of the big environmental advantages of digital printing comes from the ability to reduce overall material and energy consumption for printed materials by printing only the quantity needed when needed, eliminating the need to print extra materials that end up being wasted. We also added marketing solutions for our customers, like Postcard Commingling, allowing them to print and mail as few as one postcard, and Propensity Mailing so that printed materials only reach interested individuals and are less likely to end up in the trash and headed to landfills.