Flexo Plate Sleeves

One thing moving adoption along is the prevalence of the gearless CI and inline presses that require sleeves or are sleeve compatible. Sleeve systems reduce press downtime, and at today's hourly rates, that's significant. While one job is on press, the next set of sleeves can be ready and waiting. Sleeves may reduce inventory and tooling costs as well. Using sleeves with varying thickness, a printer might only have to buy nine cylinders to outfit an 8-color press instead of 16—eight to fill the press, and one to use as a base for mounting plates on a second set of sleeves.