On a garment line running 150+ prints per minute, the conveyor doesn’t pause for ink to “dry.” It needs instant cross-linking. Conventional drying turns into a bottleneck fast. The fix is a UV curing system built around a high-output amalgam UVC lamp. What actually matters, spec-wise We size these amalgam lamps by peak irradiance, not just wattage. Hitting 1200 mW/cm² at the substrate gives you the photon flux needed to break down the photoinitiator in UV-curable inks quickly. The spectrum stays tightly controlled, with primary peaks at 365nm and 385nm, so you get penetration into pigmented layers without surface quenching. The amalgam formulation holds output steady over 8,000 hours, with under 8% degradation, and the ozone-free quartz envelope keeps the workspace from getting grimy. Why this works on the floor In garment printing, curing in seconds is the difference between making rate and getting stopped. Our lamps cure UV inks in under 0.5 seconds, so the press keeps running at full speed—no inter-station drying delays. That means more units per day and less scrap from smearing. Energy use is tighter too: the high electrical-to-UV conversion efficiency knocks operating cost per print down by up to 25% compared with standard mercury lamps. What you need to plan for These lamps are built for specific curing units, so arc length has to match and the reflector alignment needs to be dead on. The system requires a dedicated power supply with a matched ballast, plus active lamp cooling to stay inside the operating temperature window. And plan on reflector upkeep—dust on the dichroic coating can drop spectral efficiency by 10% within a few months in dusty environments.