Recently, Casey Printing needed to perform major maintenance to one of it’s printing presses. Part of that maintenance work includes a complete and thorough cleaning.

Anybody who has been around printing knows that a printing press can get pretty dirty deep down inside and that in order to consistently provide a high quality product, even the deepest, darkest recesses of the press must be cleaned.

Traditionally, this job would require gallons of harsh cleaning solvents, rags and lots of plain old elbow grease, but Casey chooses to use a different, less toxic, more environmentally friendly approach - Dry Ice blasting. This technology uses rice sized pellets of frozen CO2 (carbon dioxide or “Dry Ice”), shot at high velocity from a nozzle directed at the gunk to be cleaned out. The Dry Ice pellets blast away the gunk, which freezes and falls to the floor. The harmless Dry Ice sublimates into the air.

According to Casey Printing Plant Engineer, Fidenco Diaz, the clean up job went well, and did not require the use of solvents, or other chemicals, to get the press sparkling clean.