Lscher Flexo ships first 3M FlexPose!direct laser engraver

Lscher Flexo is pleased to announce that it has built and shipped its first 3M FlexPose!direct laser engraving system. The FlexPose!direct 603 was installed at Carey Color Inc, of Cleveland Ohio, USA, at the beginning of June 2005. The company is already shipping flexo sleeves to customers worldwide. Carey Color will use the FlexPose!direct primarily for sleeve making for flexible packaging, but also for corrugated pre-print, labels and dry offset. Carey is a leading offset prepress house that is using the FlexPose!direct to enter the flexo market. The company already own 2 XPose! 160 and 1 XPose! 180 Thermal CTP systems from Lscher AG.

Gary Moravcik, President of Carey Color Inc commented, “ We have initially partnered with six printing facilities for controlled sales each specializing in one or more of the following material applications, Metal Back Dry Offset, Continuous Sleeves and Flat Plate. We have limited our sales due to the overwhelming response of clients and material manufacturers. So far we have not only met, but have exceeded our expectations of both quality and productivity. We have been asked to do testing on McDermid, Toray, BASF, Miraclon, Bottcher, Fulflex, Ligum, PolyWest, DuPont and A-Korn materials, including elastomers, polymers and silicone.”