Flexographic Printing. Technlogy and it is features:

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Flexographic Printing.
A flexographic print is made by creating a positive mirrored master of the required image as a 3D relief in a rubber or polymer material. A measured amount of ink is deposited upon the surface of the printing plate (or printing cylinder) using an engraved anilox roll whose texture holds
a specific amount of ink
The soft plates and highly fluid inks used in flexography make the process ideal for printing on nonporous materials such as foil laminates and polyethylene. Originally, all flexographic plates were made of molded rubber, which is still the preferred material when multiple copies of the same image are needed on a single printing cylinder. Rubber plate molds are impressions of original relief surfaces, such as type forms or engravings, and are normally used to make several duplicate rubber plates.

Flexography often abbreviated to flexo, is a method of printing most commonly used for packaging.
The preparation of a printing cylinder using molded rubber plates is a time-consuming process because many rubber plates are mounted on a single cylinder and each plate must be carefully positioned in relation to the others.

Products

Typical products printed using flexography include brown corrugated boxes, flexible packaging including retail and shopping bags, food and hygiene bags and sacks, flexible plastics, self adhesive labels, and wallpaper. A number of newspapers now eschew the more common offset lithography process in favour of flexo.

Optional Features:
Web guide system
Tension control system
Auto throw ON - Throw OFF for plate cylinder
Continuous rotation of inking rollers with hydraulic motors
Lubrication system
Doctor Blade system
Ceramics Anilox Rolls
Exhaust System
Motorized and Synchronized Rewinding stations

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