Flint Group Launches Flat Top Dot Flexo Corrugate Plate

Following "The Easy Way," Flint Group Flexographic Products, Germany, has expanded its product range with a further inherent flat top dot flexo plate, which provides significant fluting reduction on various corrugated boards from fine to rough flute. 

Holding the finest highlights, the nyloflex® FTC Digital plate offers outstanding print quality—sharp and defined elements with precisely reproduced text and codes, inviting printers to push the boundaries of print resolution in corrugated postprint. Furthermore, the new flexo plate features excellent ink transfer, resulting in very smooth solids with even ink laydown, which allows for high and consistent print quality on a variety of substrates.

"With a continuing trend for lower quality liners due to cost reasons, while at the same time uncompromised requirements for quality printing, printers, retailers, and brand owners demand good quality in corrugated postprint, both for superior liners and more challenging materials," said Dr. Eva 

 

Freudenthaler, VP of technology, Flint Group Flexographic Products. "With the development of nyloflex FTC plate, we therefore had two focal points with regard to print quality—to reduce the fluting effect across many different liner qualities and to further enhance the quality of fine highlight screens in corrugated postprint—while also keeping it simple for the pre-press operation by providing a plate that can be processed like any normal digital printing plate."

Nyloflex FTC Digital plate provides the benefits of flat top dots in an easy and efficient way by processing it like any standard digital plate—no additional equipment, processing steps, or consumables required. Hence, the complexity of platemaking is clearly simplified, while reproducibility and consistency is increased. The plate material displays the well-known durability, robustness, high ozone resistance, and good storage capabilities that are standard for all nyloflex printing plates.

 

 

On the press, the new inherent flat top dot flexo plate allows for great consistency due to less dot gain tolerances, higher wear resistance, and print-run stability, also at increased press speeds. The nyloflex FTC Digital Plate ensures a reduced bump-up and consistent dot gain over the entire print-run. In addition, the new flexo plate provides cost savings and increased productivity through quick press set-up, resulting in shortened startup times and reduced waste.

The new photopolymer flexo printing plate, nyloflex FTC Digital, will be available in several thicknesses, from 2.84 mm (.112") up to 6.35 mm (.250") by the end of July 2017.

Interested customers can request free test kits and a specially launched promotion box with print samples in 4c and 2c, printed with nyloflex FTC Digital plate and water based ink from Flint Group, PremoNova® Base Board on different substrates to illustrate the outstanding print quality, via email or online.