Digital coating plate from Flint Group

Flint Group Flexographic Products has launched the first digital photopolymer foil-based coating plate for inline and offline print finishing, aimed at meeting the increasing demand for digital printing plates.

One of the key advantages of the digital coating plate nyloflex Seal F Digital is said to be improved quality of the finishing, due to sharper reverses and more open intermediate depths, which particularly benefits spot coating applications with negative elements. The nyloflex Seal F Digital plate allows ‘very good results’ in spot and full surface coating, in commercial and packaging printing on coated papers and board, says the company: ‘The digital workflow is cost effective and environmentally friendly as no film negative is required. The digital data transfer reduces the failure rate and allows plate making without loss of quality. A reproducible and consistent quality is guaranteed due to repeatable plate processing.

‘Both the digital and analogue version of nyloflex Seal F offer remarkable performance in processing as well as on the print result. The high-contrast colour change after main exposure and wide exposure latitude help to make plate making easy. Due to the thick polyester base foil the coating plate has very high dimensional stability. Additionally the good transfer properties with both water based / dispersion-varnish and UV-varnish ensures excellent finishing results.’

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