Flexo Plate Sleeves

Direct ablation holds the promise of a truly "clean" plating operation. In addition, the process allows for imaging at variable relief depths across the plate—making it possible to "shorten" highlight dots for example so as to reduce dot gain on press. The greatest challenge of the process has been to develop plate material that can be imaged at the high screening resolutions (133, 150, and 175 lpi) required for top-quality flexo process printing.