MacDermid introduces fourth new plate product in 2008

MacDermid Printing Solutions has introduced its fourth new photopolymer plate product this year – Digital Max. Digital Max is the digital version of MacDermid’s recently introduced Max, a 60-durometer analog hard plate suited for a broad range of package printing applications.

Digital Max delivers all the benefits of Max, such as excellent drape and low tack allowing for long, clean running print performance, plus the fine resolution and imaging capability expected from a digital photopolymer plate. MacDermid gives plate makers a choice whether to process Digital Max plates conventionally using solvent, or thermally in MacDermid’s Lava thermal processing system. Digital Max is available in thicknesses from 0.030 in (0.76mm) to 0.112 in (2.84mm), and in format sizes up to 52 x 80 inches (1,320 x 2,032 mm).

Thus far in 2008 MacDermid has introduced MGC and Digital MGC, a plate family designed to address all direct corrugated board print requirements, and Max and Digital Max, a hard durometer plate family suited for a broad range of package printing applications. Coming soon, MacDermid will introduce two more products.