Flexographic printing, Process and
Advantages
Flexography:
Digital
flexography is a modern version of letterpress. This printing method is
used on almost any type of substrate, including plastic, cardboard, fabric, and
others. Flexographic printing is used to print on any flexible material.
Hat products can be made with
flexographic printing?
If you still
don't know very well what flexography
is, we are sure that you see many products in any supermarket created with
these machines. These are some examples of products created with
flexographic printing that we can see in our day to day:
·
Newspapers
·
Boxes
for food.
·
Liquid
containers.
·
Flexible
packaging.
·
Labels
on products.
·
Folding
cardboard to make boxes.
·
Etc.
Flexographic printing processes:
Prepress:
Happens
before printing. Our flexo prepress team will take care of and prepare
everything you need to run the press.
Printing:
The
department is next to the printer. These professionals will make sure
everything works correctly and that the runs turn out just as the prepress
colleagues prepared them.
The flexo
printing process uses fast-drying semi-liquid inks, which is great for
long runs and large orders because it stays firm in its areas. We can see
this in packaging
and labeling products.
Flexible
photopolymer printing plates are used in the press that surround the rotating
cylinders. These ink plates rotate at a fast speed to transfer the image
to the content that we want to flexograph. In addition, with the
advantages of flexography, we can print on absorbent and non-absorbent
materials.
The
difference from other prints like OFFSET is
that the rolls used in flexo allow for long order runs with very few
interruptions to reload the substrate.
Advantages
of digital flexography:
·
Ideal
for large orders.
·
Consumables
are lower in cost.
·
It
allows printing on different types of materials.
·
The
working speed is quite fast.
·
With
flexo, we can control printing, punching and laminating in a single pass.
That is why
at Flexomed we use the flexographic printer to be able to carry out
jobs with a high quality in the finish to satisfy the needs of our clients
and end users.
If you want more information, contact
us at: http://www.biotechpackages.com/
