Ask the Wizard Chuck Malspeis for Help

Yes, you can talk directly to one of the Wizards of Nova, the Wizard Chuck Malspeis. Get the technical help that you need.

Meet Chuck Malspeis, he is a bit of an expert in the field of Aqueous Coatings and UV Coatings for the Graphic Arts printing industry.

Chuck Malspeis has formulated, technically supported and serviced Graphic Arts aqueous and UV coatings for over 20 years.

Chuck heads up the Coating Group at Nova Pressroom Products headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

He is responsible for the NovaCoat Aqueous and UV product line which includes unique new products like Soft Touch Matte Aqueous and Strike-Through UV Coatings.

Chuck understands the coating environment, so if you need help or advice for an inline or offline application, have questions about anilox rollers or UV lamps, you can ask Chuckfor help!

For the past 20 years, Chuck has been assisting printers with the technical rigors of aqueous and UV coating. Whether it has to do with adhesion, dry speed, blocking/offsetting, rub resistance, cure rates or foaming, Chuck has worked with hundreds of printers to find practical solutions to their production challenges.

Have you got a coatings question about:

• Adhesion
• Blocking/Offsetting/Picking
• Cure
• Dry speed
• Foaming
• Gloss
• Recoatability
• Rub resistance

Check out the Wizard of Nova, Chuck Malspeis!

More about Nova Pressroom Products on Squidoo

More information about Nova Pressroom Products can now additionally be found on Squidoo. Nova Pressroom Products is undoubtedly the first company of its kind in the Graphic Arts Industry to recognize the reach and value of having a presence on Squidoo.

What's Squidoo, you ask?

Squidoo is a network of user-generated lenses --single pages that highlight one person's point of view, recommendations, or expertise. Lenses can be about anything, such as ideas, people or places, hobbies and sports, pets or products, philosophy, and politics. --Wikipedia.

Our company profile lens:
Nova Pressroom Products LLC -- You know us! Or, should know us. We develop and provide a full line of pressroom products for the Graphic Arts industry. We offer blanket and roller washes, fountain solutions, alcohol substitutes, aqueous coatings, UV coatings, silicone emulsions, specialty products, and oils. Regardless of your equipment, ink, or drying speed preferences, we have a product custom tailored for your needs.

Lenses which profile our full-line of pressroom products:
NovaCoat - UV Coatings -- NovaCoat UV Coatings are UV-curable Coatings for the lithographic and flexographic markets.

NovaCoat - Aqueous Coatings -- NovaCoat Aqueous Coatings are specially formulated for the lithographic and flexographic markets.

Alcohol Substitutes -- NovaFount Alcohol Substitutes are designed to take the place of isopropyl alcohol in lithography.

Blanket and Roller Washes -- Nova Pressroom Products develops and provides a full line of blanket and roller washes. Regardless of your equipment, ink, or drying speed preferences, we have a blanket wash that is custom tailored for your needs.

NovaFount - Fountain Solutions -- Nova Pressroom Products develops and provides a full line of NovaFount fountain solutions for the lithographic market to meet sheetfed, web and newspaper applications. We offer acid, mild acid, neutrals, one-step, two-step, and other fountain solutions to meet your varied needs.

Specialty Products -- Nova Pressroom Products provides a full-line of specialty products including special applications cleaners, film cleaners, deglazers, and a selection of other high-quality products to meet special regulations.

NovaOil - Certified Oils and Lubricants -- Nova Pressroom Products offers a full-line of certified oils and lubricants for printing presses and printing equipment. NovaOil and NovaGrease products are specially formulated with rust, foam and corrosion inhibitors plus anti-wear and clinging agents.

NovaSil - Silicone Emulsions -- Nova Pressroom Products provides NovaSil Silicone Emulsions, a complete range of web silicone anti-marking solutions for optimum performance and economy for all types of web printing conditions.

Nova Announces Digital UV Coatings

UV coatings are no longer found just in offset printing pressrooms. They have crossed the spectrum to digital! Today, digital UV coatings can be found in use in a host of equipment by digital press and copier manufacturers ... AB Dick, Canon, HP, Heidelberg, IKON, KBA, Kodak, Konica Minolta, Oce, PressTek, Ricoh, Ryobi, Toshiba, Xeikon, and Xerox.


Nova's latest Digital UV Coating, NovaCoat UV-701, is used to coat digitally printed (toner based) images either inline or on an offline coater. The key selling features of this product are no odor, high gloss and a writable surface. It is packaged in 5 gallon pails or 55 gallon drums. One gallon customer sample sizes are also available.

To contact Customer Service or a Nova Technical Staff member call 904-292-2554 or visit the website at http://www.novapressroom.com/.

New Product :: NovaCoat UV-701 -- Nova Digital UV Coating

Nova Pressroom Products announces a new product NovaCoat UV-701, a Digital UV Coating.

NovaCoat UV-701 is used to coat digitally printed (toner based) images either inline or on an offline coater.

Key features are no odor, high gloss and a writable surface.

It is packaged in 5 gallon pails or 55 gallon drums. One gallon customer sample sizes are also available.

To contact Customer Service or a Nova Technical Staff member call 904-292-2554 or visit the website at http://www.novapressroom.com/.

Press Release: Chuck Malspeis New VP Technical Services – Coatings

Ron Rose, President of Nova Pressroom Products LLC announced the appointment of Chuck Malspeis as VP Technical Services of Nova’s Coating Division. Chuck will direct the manufacturing and technical services group.

A 20 year veteran of the ink and coatings industry, Chuck most recently was the technical director of Fuji Film Hunt Chemical. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University and MBA from the University of Cincinnati.

To contact Customer Service or a Nova Technical Staff member call 904-292-2554 or visit the website at http://www.novapressroom.com/.

Originally published: December 3, 2007.

Press Release: New Manufacturing and Research Center Opened

NOVA Pressroom Products LLC, is pleased to announce the opening of its new Manufacturing and Research Center located in North Jacksonville, Florida. This 13,500 square foot facility will be the site for manufacturing NOVA fountain solutions, water-based coatings and UV coatings to support sales efforts domestically and internationally. The facility also contains research laboratories for NOVA’s main product lines. The Corporate Headquarters and Customer Call Center remain in South Jacksonville at 5875 Mining Terrace, Suite 103. The company markets its products through a network of dealers in the United States, Canada and worldwide.

“We view this expansion of our capabilities as a vote of confidence given to us by our customers who have enthusiastically supported our entry into the pressroom marketplace,” stated Ron Rose, President of NOVA Pressroom Products. “We can now produce fountain solutions and a wide range of coatings in Florida. Operations at this new facility will be under the guidance of NOVA’s industry-leading technical team with a combined 70 plus years of experience,” continued Mr. Rose.

Chuck Malspeis, Vice President of Technical Services Coatings, will direct all aspects of the Coating Division. Mr. Malspeis has 20 years in the ink and coatings industries. His experience centers on formulating and designing coatings for compatibility with the numerous inks available today. Printers have come to appreciate his unique technical ability acquired as he worked with them to optimize their project specifications.

Ray Brady, Vice President of Technical Services, will oversee all water-based and solvent cleaners, and silicone product production and their ever-increasing environmental requirements. Mr. Brady brings 23 years of experience to the team, formulating advanced solvents products. He is highly regarded throughout the industry as one of the most knowledgeable designers of safer, high-performing press washes that meet the increasingly stringent environmental regulations imposed in many states throughout the U.S. He is responsible for formulating a majority of the most widely used low VOC washes and approved washes for the major manufacturers of automatic blanket wash equipment.

Dan Roll, Vice President of New Product Development, will be actively coordinating research of fountain solutions for web and sheetfed applications. Mr. Roll is considered one of the premier fountain solution formulators in the pressroom industry. He brings over 25 years of printing and formulating experience to the NOVA Team. He is well known as one of the inventors of alcohol-free printing for offset lithographic presses.

“The addition of the new manufacturing facility allows NOVA to move toward our goal of becoming a major supplier of safe, cost-effective and environmentally-compliant pressroom products,” stated Mr. Rose.

To contact Customer Service or a NOVA Technical Staff member call 904-292-2554 or visit the website at http://www.novapressroom.com.

Originally published: January 9, 2008.

Press Release: Nova Appointed Exclusive North American Distributor for Unique UV Coating

NOVA Pressroom Products LLC, announced the company’s appointment as the exclusive North American distributor for N&N Graphic Concern(s) PTE. LTD unique line of UV Coatings. Located in Singapore with additional manufacturing facilities in China, N&N’s UV Coatings are preferred by leading edge printers and converters throughout Asia and Australia.



Andy Nei, Managing Director of N&N stated, “With the enthusiastic support of NOVA Pressroom Products, we look forward to launching our new nano-technology, Multi-Purpose UV Coating to the Canadian and United States Graphic Arts community.

Working with research centers in Europe and the United States, MP UV Coating was developed to increase the printer’s operating window across a broad range of applications and surfaces. Through exhaustive testing on numerous types of presses, MP UV Coating can be used with paper, board and plastics. The surface can be re-coated, printed and foil-stamped. It has demonstrated outstanding write and erase capabilities and will accept most EVA type water-based and hot-melt adhesives without the need to spot out, reducing blanket and press set-up costs. In addition, MP UV Coating can be used as a primer, leaving a surface that is printable for up to one year with conventional UV or screen inks. This product’s unique surface will also accept hot and cold foil stamping, screen printing, foam tape and laser print. MP UV Coating exhibits a very low odor, with a slide angle of 12 to 14 degrees, a superior flow for high gloss and a hi-slip rate.

N&N also features nano-technology UV Coatings for high speed web presses, flexo label presses, tube printing and flexo pre-print liner board. Products are available with high gloss, matte or satin finish.

“We are very pleased to represent N&N UV Coatings,” stated Ronald J. Rose, President of Nova Pressroom Products. “Andy Nei is a legend in the Asian Ink and Coating business. He travels extensively, listening to printers concerns, offering both practical and chemical solutions. The phenomenal results seen with MP UV Coating are the result of years of hands-on product development. Andy has also traveled extensively in the U.S. and Canada and understands the unique technical requirements of our market.”

NOVA Pressroom Products was inaugurated in February 2007 and is a manufacturer of a full line of Blanket and Roller Washes. Led by a technical team with over 50 years of formulating, problem-solving and regulatory experience, NOVA is focusing on providing safe, environmentally-compliant products.

To contact Customer Service or a NOVA Technical Staff member call 1-904-292-2554 or visit the website at http://www.novapressroom.com.

Originally published: May 1, 2007.